Christmas? What christmas?

There is so much mileage still to be had from the Halloween costumes...
How optimistic of me to hope that the surprise vampire attacks as I walk-in-the door-on-my-way-back-from-work would stop once Halloween is off the calendar and Christmas is very much what's on everyone's mind.
Not for Mimi and Luca. Oh no.
7 December and I still have to run away with screams of terror as I realise that my kids have been abducted and replaced by flesh eating gouls and vampirats (that's Luca's new invention: his pirates outfit and his green snake stuffed down the back of his pants for the rat tail. VERY scary!)