At 42. I am looking at my first ever nice Xmas for many, many years. Past Xmases have been spent with abusive ex, in a refuge, by myself, just pretty much much all round bloody miserable.
This year I met a lovely man and DD and I are spending Xmas with him and his DD's. We are going to share the cooking, but I have never cooked a Christmas Day meal before and so...help!
We've decided on roast beef but also need to to buy shopping for the week. Please advise on what to buy/cook.
I know I sound like a complete hopeless case but I am so used to shit unhappy Xmases that preparing for a normal happy one is totally alien to me 
I tried google, the first thing I saw advised soaking fruit in booze for three hours. And that was supposed to be simple!