[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-family-christmas-in-namur":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cb>Happy New Year, everyone!\u003C/b> I'm still catching up with the Christmas posts. Stuart and I went to our friend Manoelle's mum's house up on the hill in \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namur_%28city%29\">Namur\u003C/a> (south of Brussels). We'd spent Christmas there once before, which was the first time they'd ever had any non-family guests at Christmas, so on both visits we felt very honoured to be there. That's Mano's mum (\u003Ci>Bonne-Mamy\u003C/i> to the grandchildren) in the middle.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/namur09_3-aa4bcaee60.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI could understand a good bit of the French, but couldn't remember words to say much, so I was a bit of a conversational bore at the table, while happily tucking into my salmon mousse. (New year's resolution: practice French!) But a couple of the granddaughters were drawing after dinner, so I joined in, and ending up sketching the whole family: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/familyxmas09-b5ca3a21cb.gif\">\\r\n\u003C!--more More photos under the cut-->\\r\nNineteen of us at dinner, that was no mean feat! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/namur09_1-f0700e7af4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/namur09_2-be5b363c66.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/namur09_5-2884fbf910.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nNoam got a bit obsessed with putting a certain box on everyone's head, so here we are, posing with the box:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/namur_boxheads-6e8a422138.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/namur09_6-8e8c2640e4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/namur09_4-5f4e737261.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\\r\nInteresting links:\\r\nThanks to \u003Ca href=\"http://_w_o_o_d_.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">_w_o_o_d_\u003C/a> for flagging this great looking new comic by \u003Cb>Kris Dresen\u003C/b>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.krisdresencomics.com/shesaid/shesaid.html\">\u003Ci>She Said\u003C/i>\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nAnd I liked this article pointed out by Woodrow Phoenix about Lady Gaga: \u003Ca href=\"http://isabelthespy.tumblr.com/post/285497672/yeah-so-this-got-too-long-for-a-quote-post\">There’s a limit to how subversive a blonde skinny white pop star can be.\u003C/a>","2010-01-01T19:20:00.000Z","family-christmas-in-namur",[],"family christmas in namur",1776628733756]