We were you at my MIL's for fortnightly torture Sunday Lunch yesterday. The girls had stayed with my DH when I went to church in the morning and they had a fantastic family activity/crafty time writing their latters to Santa
(I'm 32 weeks pg, needing to be organised for Christmas, and as they are 3 and 5 they can't really write their own letters so we help them write and they do lots and lots of decorations with glitter, stickers, sparkly things)....
So, they had a FANTASTIC time, DD1 was practising her writing and did all the writing on both letters and there was lots of decorating going on.
At lunch we were telling MIL this when she pipes up "Oh, did you know "they" aren't replying to santa letters this year - its because of child protection and paedophiles"...
Trying to salvage the situation (the DDs are sitting at the table as well), I did a "Well, I'm positive Santa will reply to the girls, he always does and their letters are so pretty.."
MIL however continues to dig...
"Oh no, it was in the papers, they definately aren't repling to santa letters this year"...
Fortunately we managed to very clumsily change the subject - I was at the point of being about to spill my drink everywhere to create a distraction.
I don't read newspapers - she reads The Sun and the Local daily, but I have no idea what story this was, where she has read it, what the ACTUAL details of the story are (she is renowned for getting the completely wrong end of the stick - her and her (now departed) DH once argued the Scottish Parliament had passed a law to say all dogs MUST have their tails docked when actually the law was banning tail docking not making it compulsory)....but surely there isn't a judge in the land that would send me down if I killed her....