We have this family tradition - and now Paddington is involved!

It's a tradition that's been caught from Richard's brother Neil's wife's family; if you can catch a tradition.

Presents are out for Christmas. Instead all the sibling grown-ups and their partners, (if any) meet for a meal at a place near where one of them lives.

As we're leaving the country for a while we'll kill two birds with one stone and have a combined Christmas and leaving do. The Plough in Icklingham near Bury St Edmunds is a great place for that kind of thing.

Paddington looks longingly at a beer, but aunt Lucy wants him to give up all his vices before she meets him!