Quality work Jez
When I lived in the states I spent xmas day with my flat mate (also a brit abroad) and we were invited to dinner by some of my work colleagues. anyway, my present to my flat mate was a crate of heineken (the decent bottled stuff you get in the states) and he got me the same.. we drank the whole lot during the course of the day which was not really a good idea and then headed off to dinner. my flat mate was so pissed I had to put him in a supermarket trolley (conveniently located outside our apartment block) and wheel him to this dinner. We got there, ate dinner in about two seconds flat, tried to play charades but just ended up abusing our hosts, left them to all the clearing up and headed back to our apartment. I woke up at 7am feeling very rough, he emerged from the living room enquiring as to why he had woken up with a shopping trolley on him... and we then had to go to work as the yanks don't celebrate boxing Day..
Ho Ho Ho