Happy Christmas!

Our Tree on Christmas Eve, with an (almost) full complement of gifts beneath it. Looks like a lot of presents, and it is. I was a bit worried we'd slipped deeply into the consumer fetishism that our culture tries to drag us into at this time of year, until I counted out how many people they were for. Thirty! Which is the greatest number of people I've ever given stuff to at christmas. Which is what it's all about.

Hope your christmas was as peaceful and full of gentle affection as ours was...