neve and lily have been visited by a wide range of santas. mummy and daddy santas produced a 50p plastic car and some bubbles - enough fun to fill a day but there was so much more to come.
we celebrated christmas eve mit unseren freunden anne, urs, tita und bruno - feasting on sparkling lights and goulash. in tayport the christmas festivities come with carot soup and potato croquettes. rather incredibly, urs delivered on both!
santas steel arrived with a load of gifts and delicacies that stretched their luggage allowance; making us the only family in dhaka who could boast a marks and spencer perfectly matured beef suet christmas pudding and brandy sauce.
christmas lunch involve a mass gathering of steels and steeles with smoked turkey all the way from the midwest. neve turned up in a suit, sarah and catherine competed in a trifle-off and we exchanged games from both sides of the atlantic after lunch (the white elephant gift, colonies and mafia).
marking a knowles family tradition, we saved most presents until the late late afternoon: socks, pants and chocolates for daddies, shoes, trousers and wrinkle-reverse face cream for mummies, cuddly rabbits for lily and an aquadoodle, a gruffalo, extra brio track and new trains, a digger, a dump truck, a kazoo (special thanks for the kazoo), wooden chopping vegetables, a swimming vest and trunks, crayons, books, slippers and peppa pig dvds - not to mention the giant cement mixer (ah-mo-mo) for neve. oh to be two!
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