The Fifth Annual Knottwood Christmas Party Adventure

It's a VERY EXCITING DAY at Knottwood Castle. For the first time EVER, the Annual Knottwood Christmas Party is about to be held here! EVERYONE has been invited - but a special few are asked to arrive early, to help with the preparations...

Katherine, Michael and Emily arrive to find Lars Lindquist decorating just ONE of the many Christmas trees gracing the Spongebob Room... (Lars LOVES Christmas!)

The decorating goes quickly, with Emily-Amelie's help... Emily is VERY good at it!

...and NO help at ALL from Isobel and Belinda... They'd better not make KATY mad!

Dr. Agnes was supposed to help, but has been deep in woolly conversation with sheep farmer Gordon for hours... That's a Navajo style of spinning...

The children are AMAZED to see how much Alan Haney and his youngest sister, Teresa, have grown... What COULD it be?

...Not to mention the LINDQUIST triplets: Cheyenne, Katherine and the ever-unique Annifrid... as well as their tiny twin sister and brother, Andraia and Lucas... (What IS Annifrid wearing???)

Alicia and Neville are just sparkling with excitement about their first baby, due in January... Goodness! We didn't even KNOW she was expecting!

Bethany Underfoot and Grandma Pearl Hanbro seem to be having a "Who Has The Shortest Skirt" competition... (Did their clothes *shrink?*)

(It's REALLY just Comet standing behind C. J....)

(...which everyone except NADINE seems to realize...*

Hairdresser Tina Cutts is on duty, with her Emergency Hairdressing Kit... Uh... you can TELL they both like HAIR...

Even Jet from Loony Knoll flew in earlier for the party! Uh... along with Mostly Haunted television show host, Yvette Fieldmouse... Wow, that's some DRESS, Jet!

Several of the menfolk are quite taken with the dazzling cybernetic Canadian secret agent... (So would GABE, by the look of it...)

A small disaster is averted when vigilant host Neville just manages to stop Professor Isidore Champion setting fire to a Christmas Tree... (THAT was close!)

(Pity he was not on hand to avert a small one earlier, when Tamsin Edwards gave her boss a Christmas kiss - right in front of jealous boyfriend Errol Stanley Ryder!) (Now, Tamsin, don't TEASE Errol!)

Everyone is a little startled when Neville's trendy Londoner ex-girlfriend Iris Peel turns up, and casually plants a big wet one on him... (As Belinda SO tactfully put it...)

But since she arrives with obviously besotted formerly-reclusive-artist Peter Linsell in tow, perhaps their shock is due to her dramatic Goth clothing and makeup... (LOVE the teal hair!)

No one notices how sad Noreen Nizhoni looks, as she sits all alone in her pretty new outfit...

(But the party has hardly got STARTED yet...)

VERY special thanks to JANE of Maresnest for helping the Lindquist triplets and Alan Haney to, uh "grow"!