Old Christmas is past, Twelvetide is the last

so it was time to clear the Christmas decoration away, and also to take the cards off the wall.

Which reminded me that I haven't yet said thank you for the lovely Christmas cards you sent me! So it's high time I rectify that. Huge thank yous to
caduceus (Good luck with your exams and the Frisian house!),
chili_das_schaf (my fellow Momster Anonymous...),
joyful_molly (tell Alfie he makes a dashing Kitty Claus!),
sermanya (I love how you started your lovely long letter with "I don't have much to tell"!),
and
silver_trails (I always get such kicks out of getting mail from the other side of the world!)

(Most priceless moment of the card season was caused by someone not on LJ.
Jörg: "You've got mail from... Leningrad?"
Me: "Oh yes, that'll be from my Russian translator." PRICE-LESS.)