Christmas Eve, Moree, NSW 2400. Sunday 24th December 2006

This morning I answered the telephone at Tom's for the first time. Thinking that it might be funny as callers would be unsure where they had called...Scotland??, the joke back-fired as when I answered the Australian voice on the other end said...G'Day Will, How you goin?...It was Tom's grandmother.

After the family arrived from Inverell, Melbourne and Sydney we sat down to a huge family lunch before taking in the sights of Moree, including my first full visit to an Aboriginal Mission.

Our pre-Christmas dinner was a wonderfully traditional Aussie Barbie with fine Australian wines, before we spent time round the piano singing old time songs with Tom as the conductor. What a lovely way to welcome in the Birth of Our Lord.