Jac’s brother B made punch with one of those giant Golden Circle tins of party punch, cubes of fruit and vodka.

We had four different meats. Jac’s brother J did a brilliant job carving all of it. First, seasoned turkey thigh roast.

For those who preferred white meat to dark, there was also a turkey breast roast.

The ham had been flavoured with garlic and seeded mustard and other delicious things (sorry, I didn’t write it all down).

We also had a chunk of roast pork. Yeah, Jac’s family out-meated my family! Hahahaahaa. Yes, it was a huge amount of meat, but none went to waste – the leftovers were all eaten over the next couple of days – as cold meat with salad or microwaved with leftover roast vegies or lovely meaty sandwiches or toasted ham and cheese croissants. Jac’s mum might even make pea and ham soup using the big ham bone.

The big platter of meat. Those black things on top are the onions the pork was roasted on. They were all burned on the outside but the centre/inner layers of the onions were soft, sweet and really delicious.

Of course, we had vegetables to go with the meats. I didn’t get a chance to photograph the buttered boiled cabbage, but here are the roasted vegetables (sweet potato, potatoes, pumpkin, carrot and parsnips) and broccoli.

My plate, with a little of each of the meats. There’s some cabbage in the top left corner. My favourite meat was the turkey thigh roast. I had more for my dinner that night.

I made a trifle for dessert. This one was much boozier than the one I made recently/previously. I think there was around 110mL of sweet sherry soaked into the slices of jammy sponge roll. Well, no one needed to drive anywhere after lunch, so I thought it would go down well… which it did!

We had fruit salad as well, which was a great way to wash down that big lunch.

After lunch, we cleaned up and then headed for the beach. The place we stayed at was a rented holiday house on Geographe Bay Road, about two minutes’ walk across the road and a hot sandy path to the beach. There were a lot of jellyfish in the sea, so Jac and the kids couldn’t go in too far, but the water was nice and cool. Jac thought it was great that we were so close to the beach – if she needed another beer, she could just get another one from the esky on the verandah and get back to the beach in a couple of minutes!