Annual family get together

A mere 20 hours after the ranting, half baked nonsense below, I find myself at the end of an evening of roast goose, potatoes, stuffing, cabbage, carrots and cauliflower, organic duchy original christmas pudding and brandy butter (the pudding from last year, no less!) and some viennetta type thing, Canadian wine (we all know Canadians make the best wine (the white was pretty dodgy but the red was excellent), along with growing the best bananas) and my sister's raspberry vodka. Today also included some violent kite scudding, some excellent kiteboarding and a couple of minor jumps (woohoo!) and a brief visit from my grandmother and auntie, who were on usual good form.

My family were better company than they've ever been for about half an hour after the meal, but then someone suggested watching Casualty, and all the priorities got mixed up. One day, we'll go out and ignore the TV, just for one evening.... Ithink I'll go and pour a whisky for my mother.

And apparently my mother always buys fairtrade tea,but never buys free range eggs because she doesn't eat that many eggs.