Happy Christmas Everyone! May Your Days Be Merry, Bright...... and Free From Tinsel-Related Choking Hazards!

So here we again, friends, family and country men and women (and urban based dwellers also!).... two days till Christmas explodes in all it's multi-coloured, bauble-strewn, tinsel-saturated Santa-clogging glory, and I am finally wrapping up my good old Christmas rave for yet another fabulous year.... and what a year it's been! Floods, pestilence, locust plagues.... wait no, that was Exodus in the Bible.... my life, by contrast, has been refreshingly free of all of the above, which is great on many levels (think of the money saved on Raid alone trying to kill all the locusts!), and instead has been marked by the love of a wonderful man, all sorts of social outings, time with special friends, a trip to Canada, great movies, music and food, and a massed choir of angels who... wait, no, also the Bible.....my bad....

Suffice to say I have whipped myself into a frenzy making sure the tree is all lit up, and covered in baubles and ornaments (including the fabbest silver-sequined balls this side of Mardi Gras!), I have wrapped and sticky taped all sorts of goodies and placed them under my tree, hosted a Christmas picnic in the park with a pink and brown bauble hanging centrepiece, created a Christmas blog which you're now (hopefully) reading, and I am getting ready to jump on a jet plane tomorrow to return once more to the Ancestral Estate in Alstonville for 6 days of time with my gorgeous family (including my darling new niece, Zara!), excessive eating, markets at Bangalow, brunch at Byron Bay, playing bowling on the Nintendo Wii, and lots of DVD box set watching....phew..... I may even get a few naps in too! Think I will need them!

All that to say, it's Christmas, my favourite time of the year, and I want to wish each and every one of you the best Christmas since someone invented sliced fruitcake, and the sort of year in 2010 that will have you pinching yourself to make sure you're not dreaming....unless, of course, you're naked, being chased through the woods by zombies in a post-apoclyptic wilderness.... in which case,  you are dreaming.. or possibly not, in which case I recommend getting a gun and locking yourself in a supermarket somewhere!

Given that the likelihood of zombies chasing anyone post-apocalypse is remote in 2010, may this Christmas and the new year bring you joy, peace, and the best eggnog you can brew! Have a fabulous time!