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FIESTA TIME

Some people might baulk at the thought of a three-day Christmas celebration. Not this Brisbane clan, who gather together every year for a mega family event. It involves the five members who live at Jilaine – Angus Craig and Kirsti Simpson and her three daughters – hosting Kirsti’s three sisters and their families (each with a husband and three children), plus Grandad, in the sprawling four-bedroom Spanish Mission-style home. The cousins commandeer the pool and almost all their activities are water-based.

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