Christmas Day

Early morning mayhem as all the cousin's entertain themselves.

Cousin Pheobe.

Cousin Mabel.

Lizzie and Steve, who will be getting married on 21st August this year.

Here I am jealously checking out John's waistline as he piles the food on his plate. My sister

Ruth's nose has also just detected something unpleasant.

Steve seems to be filling my grandfather's mantle very quickly. Asleep at the table. A proud mother hen! Notice Dad's sacrificial and labouring face as he pours himself another wine.

Presents are always opened after a heavy dinner. Adults energy levels are really flagging just as kid's ones entering the stratosphere.

Daddy comes to grips with a bath book.

Jessie got some face paints for Christmas. I painted her face, before she got her revenge.