[Panel 1]
# Bell is on the phone.
[Phone]
[style octagon]
[textcolour DarkOrchid4]
....so we'll all go over to Aunt
May's for a kneesup on Christmas
Eve, and Uncle Jack can do his
Santa for the kiddies .... you
remember how you used to love
that, Bell?
[Bell]
yes mum...
[Bell-thinks]
[style thinks]
A quarter of a century ago, sure...
[Phone]
and of course on Christmas
Day they're coming to us
for lunch as usual, and
Auntie June and Uncle Derek
and the cousins as well...
[Panel 2]
[Bell]
yes mum, but...
[Bell-thinks]
aaaargh! that
means Kate!
[Phone]
... it'll be such fun for you to
see them all again, and you'll
never guess what! You remember
Uncle Robert?
[Bell-thinks]
All too bloody well,
dreadful old lush...
[Phone]
Well he's coming over from
Lanzarote just for the family
Christmas...
[Bell-thinks]
That does it!
[Panel 3]
[Bell]
yes mum, but...
[Phone]
he's going to stay over with us,
we'll have to work out where
he's going to sleep, but...
[Bell]
That's easy, mum --
he can have my old room.
[Phone]
But Bell! we thought you were ....
[Bell]
No, I'm sorry, I've been trying
to say, I can't. I've got to
work over Christmas.
[Phone]
Oh, what a shame! Your dad will
be so disappointed...
[Panel 4]
[Bell]
Another year, eh, Mum? It can't
be helped. I'll come up in the
new year some time instead...
[Phone]
# Shrink this one down to 50%
What about New Year's then?
Everybody will still be about
then...
[Bell-thinks]
and there's no way old Nils
Scrooge can be as bloody awful
at Christmas as Uncle Robert!
[Bell-thinks]
In fact, I think I'll lay in enough booze
to get even Nils drunk, and maybe he'll
start to see reindeer on the roof.
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