We hosted the extended family early-Christmas celebration here at Saint Germain yesterday. We kept to all our long established family traditions: Secret Santa presents, Summer games outside, everyone making a contribution to the feast, at least two bottles of Majella to start the fun, a familiar background playlist, and a hotly contested Christmas quiz. It all went to plan (and a lovely link back to all those precious Christmases we've shared since Joshy and Claire (and Davey, Joel and Erin) were little).
Joshy was right into his car mags present - especially now his very hot Holden Commodore VK project is nearing completion. Ella loved her party animal shoes too!
Abi was happy to get some treats for Harry (the Brumby pony) from her Secret Santa...
And the necklace went down well.....
It was lovely to welcome Tamali to the mix too this year ......
and the "village green" was the perfect setting for some family bonding over a game of backyard cricket ..
Abi has great cricketing style ....
Rod showing impeccable style too .......
Best dressed cricketer award went to Claire .....
We ate well: seafood pie, pesto prosciutto chicken, a baked ham, some beautiful salads and Jody's caramel slice and rum balls, to die for ...nobody was left hungry. Rod was in charge of the Christmas quiz and Jody, Angus, Tamali and me performed the best of the three teams (just sayin!). I was lucky to get this very cute family shot before the light faded.
All the young things are off on their own adventures over Christmas-New year this year so it was a time to treasure yesterday having them all together before the exodus begins.
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