Silent night...

The family Reeve’s Christmases are always a bit odd for outsiders. We dress up in smokings, talk nonsense during the dinner and play strange games, such the famous ‘Where are you now, Moriati?’ (where two people are blindfolded and hit each other with rolled-up newspaper) and the more subtle ‘La-di-da’ (aunts, uncles, etc. sit on the floor passing matchboxes to each other as fast as they can while chanting ‘La-di-da’)

But I guess all families have there own little traditions and embarrassing family members. I am not indicating that I have any embarrassing family members!! The woman below, however, is my dear aunt and godmother Caroline trying to slide a chocolate form her forehead into her mouth. This is Reeve entertainment at its best!

This year however we managed to get through the festive days without too many awkward moments…My mum did a fantastic job to manage everything once again to perfection. For Christmas dinner we have turkey, ham, parsnips, stuffing, sausages, bacon and the always delicious Brussels sprouts.


Christmas day itself was spend preparing the house for our 14 guests, having Christmas lunch (champagne, salmon and …. Galician home-made chorizo: how posh!!) and of course opening presents! This year Papa Noel presented me ‘Chronicles’ a book by Bob Dylan, a photo album and some very nice socks (as you can see below!)