Most of us are now preparing for Christmas.

But one family has already celebrated with a festive feast - on the first weekend of November.

Kevin Walters, 30, is missing Christmas in England as he left for Australia last month, where he will work as a landscape gardener for a year.

So his girlfriend Helen Brown-Lee, 30, and her family organised an early celebration so he would not miss out on the fun.

Helen’s sister Rachel Richards, of Fish Street, Goldhanger, said: “We had a wonderful Christmas on the first weekend in November with cake, turkey, tree, presents, the absolute works."