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A well-deserved award indeed! Like Vic I also greatly appreciate the hard work that these girls do. It's a great comfort to ex-pats like myself who can't visit often and have no relatives left in the area who are willing or able to do so. I know that my parents and my brothers are well looked after. Thank you.

Well, it is Friday and it is Christmas (almost) so here's something to keep you busy! Christmas special: 1. In which decade did Coca-Cola start using Santa in their advertisements? 2. In the song Twelve Days of Christmas what is given on the 7th day? 3. How tall, plus or minus 25 feet, was the tallest cut Christmas tree? 4. How many Kings/wise-men does the bible say visited the baby Jesus? 5. What is the most popular meal for Christmas in Japan? 6. In which European country might you receive gifts from a different ‘Yule Lad’ each night if you leave your shoes on the window-sill on each of the 13 days before Christmas? 7. “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents” is the opening line in which classic British novel? 8. Christmas won’t be Christmas in most Swedish households if the family don’t drop everything they are doing and gather around the TV at 2pm to watch who? 9. What does the acronym LED mean on ‘fairy lights’? 10. For almost 70 years, which British city has received a gift of a Christmas tree from the Norwegian city of Bergen to show gratitude for its friendship during WW2? 11. What Christmas gift did Harry Potter receive from the Dursleys in ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’? 12. Which famous scientist was born 25 December 1642? 13. Under which sign of the Zodiac was he born? 14. In which ocean can you find Christmas island? 15. Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen. On what date did he look out? 16. In 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson described Christmas as a season to be jolly and ….. what else? 17. In the Christmas song ‘Away in a Manger’, the cattle are lowing. Does this mean that they are: a) lying down? b) chewing the cud? Or c) making a noise? 18. In the film ‘Home Alone’, where did Kevin’s family travel to for Christmas? 19. In the song ‘Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer’, what is the name of Rudolph’s dad? 20. Studies show that the average American gains 3 lbs in weight between December 24 and January 6. True or false? I’ll bet you didn’t know …. The origins of the word ‘mistletoe’ are two Anglo-Saxon words: mistel meaning dung and tan meaning stick or branch. So, mistletoe literally means dung on a stick. Answers on Friday 29 December. Merry Christmas everybody!

Congratulations, a very well deserved award, your work is greatly appreciated by so many. Thank you and Merry Christmas.