English visitors visiting:
"And Mother Mouse is busy, she is fetching piece of coal, blackening the ceiling..",
the dean´s wife was singing while she divided dough into equal parts to the extra grandchildren Ivan, Hanna, Helen, Povel and Malin.
"Here you are! Knead and shape dough! she said, and ended her favourite Christmas song "Christmas Eve of the Mice". "Find out something, Hans likes that when he comes with the English guests. He always talks about using one´s phantasy."

The dean Dyring and the dean´s wife had received the grandchildren for Christmas and all Christmas holidays. And for them it was like when their grandsons Erik and Daniel lived with them. Now they also were expecting an English professor with wife and children. They were Robert and Eva Jhonson. The girl was named Filipa and her brother Jhon. Jhon Jhonson was eleven years old and Filipa Jhonson was nine.

The dean´s wife was again thinking of Dennis, the little poodle Daniel took home and had in the apple cellar, until the dean had to leave it to the police.

Soon the last sheet was in the oven.

At last weather was a little milder! Days before Christmas the dean´s wife had planned to go to the shopkeeper Lidbom and shop until Patrik´s and Josefina´s children came. It had been so cold you could not even go to the post box.
Now it was the day before Christmas Eve. They had nearly no Christmas food at home. Today was really last chance to buy Christmas food and bake ginger bread and do everything else for Christmas.
They had got a fir tree from aunt Greta. They were going to dress it. All ornaments were in a wooden box in the attics high up in a chest of drawers together with the teddy dog Pelle and a shoulder string bag and a Fortune Telling Glass Ball.