Back to our friends in Havering as their guests for the Christmas dinner meeting at the Golden Lion. Now, we've been rehearsing for this set, on and off, since we were booked for it back in April, and it was worth the work! We had a really good time and, as the audience were joining in, we hope that they were too. We had made a point of not including "the usual suspects" of the Christmas Carol world (with one exception) but "Oh, come all ye faithful", "Hark, the herald angels sing" and one or two others crept in through the back door, disguised as what we call Babelfish carols. If you have never tried this, you should: go to either the Babel Fish website or Lost in Translation , enter the words of ... well, whatever you like ... and wait for the translation; translate the results back into English and what you end up with will bear very little resemblance to what you started with. The final version, after one or two translations and re-translations, can often be very funny: the ultimate challenge is to read it aloud, in public, without creasing up into fits of giggles. As we said, we had been rehearsing since April, so you would think we'd get it right. Most of the time, we did, though if Mim ever gets anything wrong, it will be in her own compositions (notoriously — why?) The meal, we should add, was very good, and it was, as always, a pleasure to see the Haverfolk.