Here, unedited, is the entry for 1991.
"Plan for 1991. Box of left over crackers. By end of Sept - make cake. November - buy presents. Beginning of December - send cards. Ali take off Xmas Eve, Xmas Day, Boxing Day. Skeleton service rest of week. December. Organise table linen etc. Tree. Pickle pork. Ice cake.
Stockings were organised well in advance. So were most presents! Rosemary in state! Donald bad back!
Julien & Ali went to Midnight Mass - very OTT & female Terry Waite sans beard look alike.
Xmas Eve weather beautiful. Ali worked. SOS x 2. Both admitted.
Goose very nice - free range. Safeways.
Christmas Day. J J & W went to church with R & D & other Fosters in Orpington & spent morning there.
Boxing Day. John, Ali, Julien, William, Pen, Aunt C, Alison, Jean, Paul, Kathy, Sue, Liz, Nigel, Heather, Naomi, Gordon, Harriet, BR, Rene, Bill, Donald, Rosemary, James, Suzanne, Chris, Ed, Rob (arrived 3.00), Dave Thevet, Rachel (arr 6.00), Chris, Emma."
Some explanation is required in relation to the above names: "BR" was short for Bea (not, as another of the assembled company improperly suggested, "Bloody Redhead"). Thevet was not a genuine surname but invented because nobody knew what it was at the time that a skiing holiday had to be booked. So his profession was used to create his surname.
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