I must be in Europe - there's more sex and less violence on the tele. And Jamie Oliver is doing commercials for Sainsburys, the supermarket chain.

Aka-chan had a second Christmas courtesy of her Nanny. A huge box of presents arrived from Halifax yesterday, and we had fun tearing everything open. Yukiko didn't get very excited, but she was patient as we piled gift upon gift on top of her until she could only move one foot. We took lots of pictures but stupid me I forgot we had a video camera.

Now we're shopping for a cot online as she's almost outgrown the moses basket already. Just six weeks old and already accumulating more things than she can pack in several suitcases. Sooo 20th century.