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Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you had a great day. My parents stayed over last night, so we woke up, opened our stockings and met under the Christmas tree for some serious gift unwrapping.

The presents from our Secret Santa competition sponsors were fantastic and we felt so lucky. See one you like? There's still time to enter to win one.

My family also gave me and Tom lots of lovely presents including the hamburger phone I've always wanted.

Tom got me a Mondaine watch which is the girly version of his one. It's a Swiss railway watch and I love that it has the date on it, because I never know what it is. I've also heard a rumour that you can get in to the London Design Museum free if you're wearing one.

It was then time to get everything ready for dinner. This year, Tom and I are cooking the meal and both of our parents and my Nana would be joining us. There was a lot of work to do, but we were finished in time and rewarded ourselves with Candy Cane Martinis.

We set the table with homemade paper crowns and crackers, which were filled with handmade finger puppets, chocolates, lottery tickets and jokes we'd thought up throughout the year.

Mum, Dad, Nana, Christine and Jim joined us for dinner, so it was a little daunting cooking for seven people for the first time.

We started the meal with homemade Gingerbread Ravioli. They were filled with butternut squash and cranberry Wensleydale cheese and topped with a hazelnut and crystalized ginger sauce.

For the main course we used Heston's recipe to bake salmon with liquorice accompanied by Nigella's roasted butternut squash with pecans and blue cheese.

For dessert, we tucked in to a ice cream chocolate bombe which we'd cleverly bought from Waitrose a couple of days before.

We also tucked in to the nibbles I'd baked including tuilies, peanut butter pretzels and lebkuchen.