2017 Christmas Days

As in the last few years, Paulie and Stephen hosted a Christmas Eve gathering. We were joined by Michael Docherty who was staying at Chateau AthoTurnbull during his visit from France. After Paulie worked through her Christmas moning shift, the team headed to Doonan to join Clan Dunlop. A few days there with plenty of eating, drinking and cycling, it was back to Brisbane. On Christmas day in Oxford James volunteered to feed homeless and Syrian refugees and Elena and Nick hung out in France at La Cachette.

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1 Brotherly Christmas Eve visit	2 Including Andrew Bertleson	3 The gals prepare the setting for the feast & need a break	4 .. and for dinner.. Owen, Denise & Ronnie Traynor
5 Shari and old Paulie's Uni pals Anne Louise Jackson	6 ... and David (Jacko). They just missed out meeting Michael in St Antonin in october	7 .	8 .
9 .	10 .	11 It's Daniel Docherty's birthday	12 .
13 Christmas Morning	14 time for a wee bubbles	15 After Christmas morning in Brisbane (and a quick work shift for Paulie), it's off to sister Jan's in Doonan and another cuddle with the new Dunlop addition, Genevieve	16 the Dunlop clan gather
17 Father and sons chat	18 play begins	19 Auntie Adrienne has a cuddle	20 Stef and Adrienne catch up with the AthoTurnbulls
21 whilst Ella takes Mum and Dad for a train ride.	22 The Kitchen crew pull off another wonderful lunch	23 Ella in a basket is not on the menu	24 A quick time out to Ho Ho Ho James in Oxford.
25 And Nick and Elena in France where they have escaped the big city for 6 nights	26 Off for the first ride on her new bike. Olivia's Christmas gift to herself.	27 A few laps and she's got it	28 Uncle Jimmy as her wingman
29 Then two mornings on the open road	30 Where kangaroos rest (except a few that bounced up the road infront of Stephen and Olivia)	31 ... and deer pop up	32 After their 30km, Shari joins Olivia for a few more kilometres