Christmas Cheer

Christmas is always entertaining in our house. My family are all rather eccentric and varying degrees of forgetful.

It's a relationship that works better in principle than practice - we all get on very well when we're not actually in a room together. However, bring us together, and we've got very little to actually say to each other.

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas in our house without at least one appliance based disaster (this year, the microwave burnt out while cooking the sprouts, last year it was the dishwasher) plus more faux-pas from nutty family members than I can count. Without several pages of background you probably wouldn't really get them (and no doubt you've got to be there really). Suffice to say, I'm entertained and despairing in equal measure for the entire holiday period.

Highlights of my present pile this morning are probably "Why don't penguin's feet freeze?" The 2nd compilation of "Last Word" letters from New Scientist and an electric can opener (the height of laziness I'm sure) with an integrated knife sharpener.

Merry Christmas to you all