While Christmas was an explosion of happiness, the days that took us to the end of the year were filled with little joys, like repeated breakfasts of delicious Christmas ham, of children rediscovering and investigating their wonderful new toys, of seeing them wear the beautiful clothes people had chosen for them with such care, of reading on the beach in the weak but pleasant sun while Byron happily ate sand and Georgia played with her beach toys, of sitting on a swing with Byron as Georgia tried to go ever faster down the slide, and of long languid lunches with Simone in some of our favourite eateries. It seems the year is a rush to Christmas, and then, only briefly, is the respite of a few days of calm happily locked in succession. Festive New Year's
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