I’ve been up to my ears in it for the past few days. My husband decided to pop into the world on the 24th of December, quite a lot of moons (decades) ago.

So I’ve been cooking a special birthday meal today, after all it’s still his birthday even if it is the day before Christmas. We have both of our ‘boys’ and Laura here for the next few days, which is great because we couldn’t wish for anything more at this time of the year.

We’re lucky that they live fairly close to us. I wish it could be the same for all families.

Tomorrow I’ll probably have some photographs of our Christmas dinner. Any vegans and vegetarians – please avert your eyes. We’ve gone for a traditional Dickensian meal – goose. I did feel a bit guilty about it though as two lovely geese flew low above us on the way to the shop. How did they know?