Frosty berries • Berries in our garden after a heavy frost.

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The decorated tree • Finally. the complete decorated tree.

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Mummy • Mummy heating up gravy for Christmas lunch.

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Elizabeth • Elizabeth in the kitchen before Christmas lunch.

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Eileen • Eileen in the kitchen before Christmas lunch.

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Christmas lunch • Vegetables arrayed on the table for Christmas lunch.

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Goose • The Christmas roast goose. We gave turkey a year off this year.

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Serving • Elizabeth helping Eileen to serve some vegetables. This shot was posed so that we could produce a family prospectus (still forthcoming). Eileen’s number 3 sticker is from our musical crackers.

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Forkful • John, who came on Boxing Day, doing his traditional Christmas trick of loading up his fork with something of everything on his plate.

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Laying a fire • John setting the foundations for a roaring fire in the drawing room.

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Daddy • Daddy in the kitchen on 27th December.

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George • George in the kitchen on 27th December.

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Edmund and Samuel • Samuel hugs his youngest brother, Edmund. I was pleased with this photo because Edmund was in fact sitting on my knee, so it’s fortunate that the whole thing isn’t horribly out of focus.

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Examining the picture book • John, sitting with Edmund, looks with George at the book of photos from 2006 we produced principally for Grandma.

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John and Edmund

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Lucy and Edmund • Edmund looks slightly mischievous in the kitchen.

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When are we going to eat? • George looks bored by our typical delay in getting everyone to sit down and actually starting lunch.

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Lucy • Lucy at lunch on 27th December.

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Pivot • Edmund leaning over in his high chair to get a better look at something.

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Sharing a joke • It looks like Francis is sharing a different joke from Lucy and John.

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Samuel • Samuel in the drawing room on 27th December, before the next round of present-giving.

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Newspaper • Edmund liked nothing better than rolling in the sheets of newspaper in which I’d wrapped my Christmas presents.

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Hidden • That tuft of hair sticking out from under the newssheet is Edmund, who enjoyed rolling among the newspaper I’d used to wrap Christmas presents.

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Sea of paper • Edmund lying supine on sheets of newspaper strewn over the drawing room floor.

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Darth George • George wearing the Darth Vader helmet which I had given to Samuel.

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Mummy and Edmund

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Darth Samuel • Samuel getting used to the feel of the Darth Vader helmet (includes voice changer!) I had given him.

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Perusing the pictures • Toby examining the book of photos from 2006 we had printed primarily for Grandma.

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Mummy • Mummy in the drawing room.

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Albert • Albert peering out from behind his placemat before lunch on 28th December.

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Jet-lagged • Thomas looking tired at lunch after having stepped off the plane from Sydney that morning, 28th December.

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Sammy • Samuel at table at lunch on 28th December.

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Assembled company • The family at table on 28th December.

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Too much • After finishing his lunch on 28th Dewcmber, Edmund promptly fell to sleep with the typical Flynn hubbub going on around him.

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Grandparents • Daddy and Mummy with their youngest grandson, Edmund.

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George

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Amused • Philip examining ‘The Tram to Bondi Beach’, which Thomas had given to Samuel.

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Tea • Francis with his cup of tea in the drawing room on 28th December.

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Prostrate • Edmund lying across Lucy’s knees.

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Lucy and Mummy

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