And here are some pics from our Christmas dinner

(see post of monday 6th)

In the middle of the preparations...

And here you can see how our kitchen does have the faculty of looking slightly more cheerful when for the first time in history it is filled with all twelve its occupants at the same time (not fitting onto one picture of course):

There's no use giving you a list of names, but the one taking the photo is R.; the elbow on the left is my loud-mouthed Spanish neighbour (who is actually living two doors away, but forementioned mouth has no problem creating the illusion); the red-striped arm belongs to the person that is from a place I actually know (Cardiff); the girl at the far end is very proud to be from Yorkshire; next to her is my neighbour B. (the one that went to Twelfth Night (like me!), the one that lived in France (like me!) and the one with the fine taste in music and movies (...). On my left is the sword-swallower (see 6 December).