Mum and Claire have started seriously talking about Christmas and guess what, good old Steve is coming on Christmas Day. Mum’s asked me to go and see Uncle Angus one night this week and try and persuade him to come, but I told her if I ask him this early he’ll definitely not come out of principle – he thinks that you should only start thinking about Christmas on the 23rd of December. Then Mum started going on about maybe having goose instead of turkey, Andrew and Claire nearly fainted from shock, Mum withdrew the suggestion.