Cliché, but what happened to my December break, it’s done and dusted and we are already one week into 2014.  Our holiday was amazing, we spent two weeks at the coast and a week in the bush, we are all tanned, rested, a bit fatter than we were three weeks ago, but it was worth every calorie laden vodka along the way. I think that Liam finally realises that Santa Claus does not exist as he started asking piercing questions and we basically lied to him, and then he walked into my study yesterday and saw the wrapping paper, and I fobbed him off with a story about Santa and me just all buying paper at Checkers.  Gerhard decided to have a man to man talk to the poor boy to explain that we lied, but also to beg Liam to now join us in the on-going deceit of Luka.  We will see how this turns out.  Santa – i.e. Gerhard and I got Liam a fishing rod and “a tackle” and a tent for Christmas, a miracle really when considering that we still do not own a Wii or a PlayStation or any other TV ga