New Year's Eve!

Parvati and Lavender and I are staying up as late as ever we can!

Lavender came to stay with us right after Christmas and now we're at her house. Our parents came, too, but they're going home after the party's over and we get to stay.

Lav's brother (Dio, that is, not Tibs) said he'd give me a coffee to help me keep awake, and a brandy if we make it to one o'clock. But then Tibs said that was nonsense, he should give me the brandy now and the coffee at midnight. And Mr Brown said we were all very silly and that we could have a sip of champagne at midnight if we were still up. (But then Dad said no, we're still too young for champagne.)

I'm going back down to the party now, I only wanted to put that down about Lavender's brothers before I forgot.