Or apparently more often in the Falklands! This year has been quite odd – firstly it was because of strikes in the UK, which meant that many many Christmas parcels were delayed.

For me this meant that most of my presents arrived post Christmas but at the start of January. Then Royal Mail were hit by a ransomware attack, which meant that for weeks and weeks we got absolutely no airmail at all. Every time a plane arrived, there’d be a sad little message on Facebook from the Post Office to say that there was no airmail on the plane again. Reactions went from cross, to sad, to jokes, to forgetting about it.

And then the glorious day came when airmail started to arrive again and Christmas reappeared! I got my final Christmas parcel from my parents this week and various things that I’d ordered have been turning up over the last two weeks – the dates posted range from late November to end of January. The date posted in the UK seems to have little relevance to the order they’ve arrived in!

And today more cards arrived in the post. So it may be March, but the cry of “Merry Christmas” is ringing round the Falklands once again. I wonder how long it will last? Perhaps until FIXmas, but that’s a post for another day.