I think you could get away with opening the envelope before Christmas - but you probably have already! :)

I opened the outer envelope and put the stuff in Christmas wrappings under the tree (yup, it's still there). The Twistees were great to see and I'm going to take them to the party I'm going to this evening - well, one of them - to share one of Malta's finer cultural creations with my friends.

As for the revised fic: I should have time to do it this afternoon or this evening. We'll hope!

Research: very impressive.