Sounds tremendous fun. I keep mentioning to people that Santa Claus isn't the native tradition for here (and hasn't been going for that long over there either), but it took Wikipedia to validate my intuition that mummers' plays in which Father Christmas is a sort of Yuletide spirit have been going for an Awfully Long Time.

I loved the Aardman Christmas film this year because it didn't Americanise the idea too much (and had scads of good, funny British actors -- particularly Jim Broadbent playing a very nice bumbling idiot), and the title of __Arthur Christmas_ is a Pune or Play on Words not using 'Santa Claus' (the Yanks have got any number of 'Santa...' films; let them keep them, say I!

PS Hope you got the sweets. Julia seems to have liked hers.