Whether it’s to impress your friends, or to bake the perfect cake, fulfill your wildest dreams and head on down to The Queen's Pantry and get your hands on a Mason Cash bowl, you naughty little minx.

No. Not Jeffrey Epstein. Or Harvey Weinstein. Or even worse Trump/Biden (delete as applicable). I’m talking about Pantomime, or Panto for short. Panto is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, especially during the Christmas and New Year season. Modern pantomime includes songs, gags, slapstick comedy and dancing. It generally combines gender-crossing actors and topical humour with...

So begins the song ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’. And what a bangin 'tune it is. But what are the 12 Days Of Christmas? Like, properly, not the Lords-a-leaping thing, but actually, really, it’s the big Christmas question. Well, surprise surprise, The Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as the Twelve Days of Christmastide, is the festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity (the birth of Jesus). So Day One is December 25th, Coincidentally, Christmas Day. The day that Jesus was born....