Christmas cards all sent out, presents bought (and mostly wrapped), and wallet contents evaporated. Wonder if I've been a good girl this year and Santa will bring me a rather large (unwrapped) present?! Thinking that he will have trouble getting that one down the chimney, perhaps should leave the key under a rock instead?

Big day tomorrow, a Christmas bake-off with daughter and her grandma, another lunch...followed by pre-Christmas supper with friends. In this hot Australian December, we expect 36 degrees celsius for Christmas Day, despite which the plan is still to do a roasted celebration dinner (we must be mad, whatever happened to champagne, sliced watermelon and cold chicken at the beach)? Whatever, it will be fun regardless of the lack of snow. Throw a snowball up in the air for us, maybe it will come down here as a small rainshower!