I saw Mummy kissing Santa Gabe...

Guys, pay attention - if you buy your missus gift vouchers for Christmas she will snog your brother, FACT. And this is exactly what happened in the Brodie house on Christmas Day. While Michael was off working, Angel Gabriel swooped in to help Leyla with the dinner. Gabriel seemed to be wrestling with his feelings for his sister-in-law all day but it was Leyla who eventually went in for a kiss! Poor Leyla has been feeling very neglected by Michael so when she realised that Gabe had got her a really thoughtful Christmas gift, she couldn't help giving him a little festive smooch in return. (What do you think she would of given him if he'd bought her a real car?!) The little smooch soon turned into a full on passionate snog and who knows what might of happened if Malcolm and Liz hadn't come home! Was it just a harmless kiss under the mistletoe or will Gabriel turn out to be for life, not just for Christmas?

There was much hilarity over at the Mullen's house, even with Lenny Murdoch at their Christmas table, they all had a right old knees up. I wonder if Molly has any plans to release a Christmas Hits album? I think I'd pay good money to hear her sing again!

There was further Festive joy for the Mullen's when wee Bubba got engaged! It was so sweet, Stella proposed under the Christmas tree just as the snow was falling. All very romantic! Let's hope Bob has better luck this time, I think this could be the fourth time he's been engaged! He'll be alright as long as he doesn't have his Stag do in Prague, we all know what happened the last time he went there - wee trip to the sexual health clinic, that's all I'm saying.

Deek got by with a little help from his friend's, managing to feed all the 'hungry, lonely' people and bag himself a new job in the process. Did anyone else notice how ever tactful Murray just referred to the community centre guests as 'lonely' right in front them?! It was nice how Robbie et al gave up their Christmas dinner so that Deek could save face. That's what I call Christmas spirit - and Iona had certainly had a lot of the 'spirit'.



Next Tuesday it's New Years Eve and as ever there will plenty of drama for Hogmanay! Eileen and Gina fall foul of some pesky mice, Gabriel and Leyla try to deal with their feeling after that kiss and Christina is distraught to find out that Big Bob isn't planning on coming home...

Since it's Christmas, I've treated you to some extra pictures for you to remember it by! And don't forget to let us know what you thought of this week's episode.

P.S. There will be no blog next week as since it's Christmas but I'll be back after New Year.



MERRY CHRISTMAS!! I hope you all have a great time!



Quote of the Week

Scarlett when telling Stella how many places to set at the dinner table: "Let me see, there's youse two, me n Jimmy, Kelly-Marie, King Herod, Molly, Tattie, Christina and the weans."

I loved that she just threw that in there! King Herod, Lenny? I can see the similarities! This is also the quote of the whole series from our Script Editor Ciara Conway!