Christmas tree successfully vertical and standing on its own in the living room. The daughters can decorate, I've done the hard bit

Bloody hell I love having all the daughters home for Christmas. They have all turned out to be really good humans, interesting and funny and interested and happy. I so lucky.

This is the time of year that we have quite a lot of chocolate half covered biscotti, or half chocolate covered biscotti, or biscotti half covered in chocolate.