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who has many legends, including one about throwing bags of money over the wall, so that three poor sisters could have dowries. In our house, the children put out their shoes or slippers, and St Nicholas comes and leaves chocolate, or whatever. This year, chocolate money, chocolate St Nicholas’s (which are the same as chocolate santas, except if you can find them looking more bishopric, and ours came from the German market, so they probably were meant to be St Nicholas).
Music: St Nicholas, is it by Britten?
Writing with my other pen 
Don’t you get oranges in your house? I used to count the satsumas in the bowl on the 5th and the 6th, and it was always the same number. I think mother was wise to that one.
not always; we’ll probably sneak them into the Christmas stuffthis year. Last year, they watched the Charlie and Lola Christmas special and Sam wanted a pineapple because of it, so John was shopping for pineapples at the last minute, but then Sam and Hannah didn’t like them, so we had a lot of pineapple…