A brief flirtation in Paris with all the necessary romantic ingredients: a train station, a sunny walk in the park, plat du jour et le fromage.

A mini tour-de-france with my girls, wandering the countryside, seeking sunflowers, enjoying perfect picnics.

And finally long lazy days and even longer vin rouge evenings at the Chateau with ‘the crew’.

Getting very lucky and having a proper English Christmas time.

Mucking around in the snow in the garden. Feeling like an extra in Love Actually in the snow in London. Stomping around the Surrey fields in the snow. Drinking coffee and looking out over a sparkling snowy landscape. You get the idea…

And having some bish bash bosh Italian from Jamie. Spot on.

These highlights are quite distinctive: repeating something that is a favourite, trying somewhere new (and it being excellent), and two very unexpected highlights.