Christmas Day is very quiet, unmarked by the games, music, present-opening and celebratory feasting and drinking of the English version. The highlight is playing with Ignacio junior, who has been given a complicated build-by-numbers cardboard locomotive that Juan ends up completing for him.
Our "Timba" is an instant hit:
... and when the official version begins to tire, Ignacio invents myriad variations:
Meanwhile I take time out with Barbara Kingsolver's funny and moving The Bean Trees and keep body and soul together with a few sun salutations.
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