Happy Cliffmas

We stayed up til 4am on Christmas day watching Return of the King- The Extended Version, so we were all late for the 8am opening presents session. I finally got a phone call from George rousing me at 10ish and we all gathered in the lobby in our PJs with our parcels. Helena made my Christmas with an ingenius choice of wrapping paper: Cliff Richards and Christina Aguliera because no Christmas is complete without our dear Cliff and despite the awful outfits, I still passionately defend Christina’s erm… individualism. I have to say that this definitely tops the Darius/Simon Cowel/Alan Partridge photo-frame and Geri Halliwell wrapping paper. Well done, chica!

An unconventional Christmas in Nagoya: I went back to bed after the presents opening, all that excitement had tired me out. Then, some essaying, followed by dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant with Jonathan and Kevin, strange to be having Vietnamese food on Christmas Day in Japan but it was really good food (I wouldn’t have expected anything less from Vietnamese people). We went to the party at the nearby hall to dance off our dinner under the revolving disco ball: lots of bootyshakin’, some grinding, a little bit of salsa and a free bar!