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."
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