And we had Christmas.
I put it down to the granola. Orange & cranberry flavours got us in the Christmas spirit, and since Sean & Shona will be celebrating in Singapore this year, we thought why not...
It even happened to be the 25th.
So, we had a fantastic Christmas meal, and the next day enjoyed a St Stephen's waddle, then telescoped time neatly to ring in the New Year.
There were some pleasing variations on our holiday festivities in Madeira a couple of years back: this weekend we headed up Lough Oighin Hill on foot - rather than hurtling down a mountain in a basket, and I lit a single match over our New Year's pints, which contrasted with the popping champagne corks and unbelievable fireworks of Funchal.
