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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas …
Finally, there is a feeling of celebration in the air! I’ve never been so happy to see the shelves stocked with tinsel and to start to peruse cookbooks for Christmas feast planning … even if it is to end up with the inevitable prawn cocktail, roast chicken and pavlova!
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