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Hello, before we left the newscast studio for the Christmas holidays,

I got together with some of the newscast extended family for a sort of pretend office Christmas party,

which was built around the idea of us answering your questions,

with the questions hidden in newscast branded

Christmas crackers, which we pulled and then answered the questions. But before we find out

things like what's on Henry Zephman's Christmas list, we're going to have one last outing

of our trademark newscast Christmas gimmick, Father Chris Mason, where we asked you to send in pictures of a specially

modified picture of Chris wearing a Santa hat. And we've had some excellent, excellent responses

to newscast at BBC.co.uk. Sarah emailed from New Zealand, a picture of Chris Mason looking

very Christmassy, but in a very summery backdrop. He is wedged

into a beach towel next to a very inviting looking swimming pool in the sunshine. Then Rob got in touch

to say, bonjour. We're on the last day of a festive trip to Disneyland Paris, or as people of a certain

age, my age, call it

Euro-Disney, we took the chance to take a picture of Chris in the existential crisis section

of Disneyland. Sorry, what? Oh, he then says, this is the part where you're in a fake version of

Paris while being in the real Paris. He also adds, the alien in the photo is Peggy, one of

your smallest listeners.

We like to catch up on newscast while I'm putting her to bed.

Oh, and Peggy looks very cute there in her Toy Story alien outfit.

And a very fetching picture of Chris Mason in his Santa hat.

And then we got an email from Caris.

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