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What to drink if you (or your friends) are not drinking at Christmas

What to drink if you (or your friends) are not drinking at Christmas

Posted on December 23 2024 at 09:26

It’s hard to get away from the fact that Christmas - in fact pretty well the whole of December - is a mega-boozy period hence the reason so many people go in for Dry January

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