Why wait until December? Festive chaos arrives early

Christmas has come early - literally - in our house this year, but entirely out of necessity.

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Daughter #2 flies back to the US in a few short weeks for her third stint working on a cruise ship that sails out of Miami that’s around the size and population of a thriving town (quarter of a mile long, 10,000 passengers and crew).

Thanks to some changes in the US recently that you might have heard about on the news, sending parcels there has suddenly become ruinously expensive, to the point where it was quicker and cheaper to hand Daughter #2 her gifts in mid-September while she’s here.