Merry Christmas! Hope you’re enjoying the blitz of good food, company and presents – and here’s to the start of your holidays being memorable for the best of reasons. Our Dec 25 was spent taking turns trying to stem the gush of water from a burst pipe in Will’s shower, while waiting for a (thankfully working!) plumber to turn up. But before that, there was Gelato Messina Christmas flavours and Wayne’s World to look forward to.

We’ve got this chocolate tree (bought from Kakawa in Darlinghurst) to joyfully demolish once we get our post-dinner appetites back again, too. Happy holidays and hope your 2013 brings many excellent meals (with equally excellent company) to look forward to. Thanks for reading this blog, too – it’s really lovely that you do.

Kakawa Chocolates, Shop 5, 147 William St (a few blocks from the Darlinghurst Rd end), Darlinghurst, (02) 9331 8818, www.kakawachocolates.com.au.