Well, I'm back.

It's been a reasonably busy weekend.  We baked several dozen gingerbread cookies.  I forgot to add the eggs to a recipe for peanut butter bars and now we have ziploc bags full of chocolate peanut butter crumbs.  Mr Tabubil smashed two bowls.  I smashed a wine glass.  We made more gingerbread cookies, and Mr Tabubil whipped off a run of fresh- raspberry sorbet. Your regular two-weeks-before-christmas baking frenzy, basically.

We may or may not actually be in Chile. But for the purposes of the narrative, we're in Melbourne, at the Chilean consulate, applying for our visas.