We are in the quiet mid-point of a festive season that for the first time ever features 3 granddaughters. So it is a Christmas like no other. Now children do say the cutest things but this blog is not for that kind of stuff . How do first time Christmas Nana’s and Nona’s cope providing all the familiar family traditions in a way that also accommodates the needs of small people. Compromise, flexibility and infinte knowledge.

Our key success points have been a willingness to pretend to breast feed a tiger who was running out of energy.

Our real world knowledge of anatomy as applied to a Unicorn with a flattened horn.

Our ability to sing Stranger on the Shore a 1961 tune played on a Clarinet by Mr Acker Bilk.

Unusual but essential Super Powers for the festive season.