Our more astute readers may be surprised at the title of this post in light of the earlier posts from France but we speak, of course, of his second Christmas with his family on his return.
Sadly his sister suffered a fall shortly before Christmas (no she was not on the Sambuca (passim)) and very badly sprained her ankle and has been essentially immobile for a couple of weeks and the kids have not been able to get out and about as much to let off their youthful steam so suddenly with a bearded (but knackered) Uncle Owen to play with they were off.
Thea played the cute card to perfection claiming her favourite present was the sing-along CD player he gave her whilst Phoebe was somewhat underwelmed by her present of a rainbow painting set although to be fair she had been given exactly the same present only 5 days before by someone else. Evie was delighted with her pull-along centipede; well she chewed on it thoughfully.
Meanwhile he was being smug about having more presents than anyone else to open and some first class presents they were too although he will have to wait to listen to all his new CDs as it turns out that Chris stole his i-pod craftily at the end of their trip (possibly to pawn it to pay for repairs to his car).
The usual mix of banter, food and lots (and lots) of alcohol followed by board games rounded off a splendid day. Merry Christmas one and all.
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