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Thread: Advance Warning - the C Word 2012
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Welease Woderwick
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Just a little heads up for you all - it will be Christmas Day in just another 11 months!
[ 25. January 2012, 02:47: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
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Lyda*Rose
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Thanks, Wodders. And I was just recovering.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Thanks, Wodders. And I was just recovering.
Too much time on your hands, Wodders?
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I don't know, I do what I can to help people and all I get is abuse - mumble, mumble...
A prophet is never honoured in his own land...
mumble, mumble...
Perhaps I'll close this thread for a while in the hope that later I shall be appreciated.
[ 25. January 2012, 10:16: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
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Welease Woderwick
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There is only just over 6 months to go - it's time to start making those lists!
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Uncle Pete
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Am I allowed to bring lumps of coal into India?
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
There is only just over 6 months to go - it's time to start making those lists!
and order your Brussels sprouts. These must be cooking by the end of September to get the authentic taste. The easiest way to remember is that they must be on by the time you have finished making your Xmas puddings.
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Lothlorien
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The easiest way to remember is that they must be on by the time you have finished making your Xmas puddings.
Thanks for that useful bit of information. I think the cook at the hospital I was in some years ago knew about this rule and had adapted it. Every morning by 9:00am the smell of sprouts or cabbage for lunch wafted through the hospital. Lunch was 12:30.
My MIL used to pressure cook wedges of cabbage for 30 minutes.
However, I'll bear your rule in mind. Will cabbage do instead at Christmas? December is summer here and sprouts are a winter vegetable.
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Robert Armin
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I think it was Fay Weldon who talked about the first job she had, working in a restaurant. When she came in at 8.00 in the morning she had to put the cabbage on for lunch.
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Zacchaeus
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Originally posted by Robert Armin:
I think it was Fay Weldon who talked about the first job she had, working in a restaurant. When she came in at 8.00 in the morning she had to put the cabbage on for lunch.
Yes my old school the first job in the kitchen of a morning was to put the cabbage on to boil!!
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I don't think I've put water anywhere near cabbage for donkeys years, apart from washing it. Sweat it gently in a littleoil or butter, add grated coconut and a little spice.
YUMMY!!
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cattyish
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If I were to start feeding a cake now, would it explode before I could cut it on Christmas day?
Cattyish, experimental cook.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by cattyish:
If I were to start feeding a cake now, would it explode before I could cut it on Christmas day?
Cattyish, experimental cook.
Depends on the cake and the dose. You could start feeding a good fruit cake little and often, but if you're even now contemplating something for the festering season you could make a Rumtopf.
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James the Confident
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
There is only just over 6 months to go - it's time to start making those lists!
So much to do, so little time... ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Huia
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Still have some time until I have to make the Christmas cakes then. That's a relief, ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Lyda*Rose
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
There is only just over 6 months to go - it's time to start making those lists!
You're sick man, Wodders. I like that. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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PataLeBon
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I've been buying things already!!
(OK, not presents.....)
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Jengie jon
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I started making presents at Easter. Alright so the instructions say "Leave to mature for around nine months"
Jengie
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Steve H
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I don't think I've put water anywhere near cabbage for donkeys years, apart from washing it. Sweat it gently in a littleoil or butter, add grated coconut and a little spice.
YUMMY!!
Or steam it.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Steamed with water chestnuts is good - you can add bamboo shoots if you wish then dress with a little butter and some black pepper from the garden.
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St. Gwladys
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Originally posted by PataLeBon:
I've been buying things already!!
(OK, not presents.....)
I tend to start to look for presents when on summer holidays - you are somewhere you aren't normally seeing things you wouldn't otherwise - you are bound to see things that would be just perfect for... The only problem then is putting them somewhere where you can find them again. A couple of years ago I bought a present for a close frind's birthday. I finally gave it to her this year
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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ONLY SIX MONTHS TO GO!!!
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Jengie jon
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Thanks for the reminder I have just gone and shaken the Christmas pressies.
Jengie
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PataLeBon
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I better speed up my shopping then....
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ken
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Today is anti-Christmas Day! The farthest away you can ever be from Christmas.
[ 25. June 2012, 17:07: Message edited by: ken ]
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by ken:
Today is anti-Christmas Day!
It's called Leon. My nephew's birthday is today, the very best time to have one. Six months later you have Christmas! Not like some of us who have to wait eleven and a half months after the birthday for Christmas. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Darllenwr
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Is this what is meant by, "Post early for Christmas"?
I'll get me coat ...
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Janine
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I was Christmas shopping @ the recent OKC/Santa Fe/Four Corners Whirlwind Shipmeet. Never too early to buy jewelry. For the kids. Hmm, yer, for the kids.
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Og, King of Bashan
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Just to make everyone feel inadequate (or to convince everyone that they have more active social lives than me), I am brewing my Christmas give away ale tomorrow. In my defense, it is an Old Peculier clone, so it needs some time to mature. Get that baby in bottles in August, let it sit there and get nice and peculiar, and kick back and enjoy Football season without anything left to worry about.
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Pigwidgeon
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Oh, Og -- I want some! I love Old Peculier, and I haven't been able to find it my last two trips across the Pond.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS TO GO, PEOPLE - NEVER SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!
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ThunderBunk
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS TO GO, PEOPLE - NEVER SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!
Thanks for that, WW. I shall start limbering up my Xmas*-ignoring muscles now.
* please note that Xmas and Christmas are very different things.
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JoannaP
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I've already had two catalogues with Christmas cards in. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Vulpior
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I just closed this thread, after noting a recent post and reading it, only to see that the top of my Twitter timeline was a post that read:
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For f***'s sake, Woolworths, it's AUGUST
The image linked was this one.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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You see, my warning is a timely one!
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Roseofsharon
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Originally posted by JoannaP:
I've already had two catalogues with Christmas cards in.
Got my first charity Christmas card catalogue more than three weeks ago.
Christmas cards were being displayed in local charity shops straight after the jubilee weekend.
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Ariel
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I suppose that means people will start thinking about circulating menus for office Christmas lunches shortly: I checked last week and some menus are available now.
We always used to have to sort it out in September because the restaurants got booked up pretty quickly, and it always seemed bizarre sitting there on a warm, sunny September day trying to make a decision on what you'd be in the mood for eating on a cold winter's day in December. These days we tend to leave it until rather later in the day, as nobody can stand the hassle of organizing it any more (which means choices are sometimes defined by what places still have space available).
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Boogie
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I have started making my Christmas wrapping paper.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Does that make you ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif) ?
Hehe!
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Nope - only because I've already made most of my cards and am busy knitting in readiness. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Ariel
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No - I bought several rolls of wrapping paper a couple of years ago which will do for probably the next 5 years.
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St. Gwladys
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Ok, Ok - we're off for a week next week and then I'll start the Secret Santa lists. HINT:This will give people plenty of time to register, be allocated a Santee, get a present and post it so it arrives before Christmas! ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Ok, Ok - we're off for a week next week and then I'll start the Secret Santa lists. HINT:This will give people plenty of time to register, be allocated a Santee, get a present and post it so it arrives before Christmas!
Hope springs eternal!
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Deadliners of the World Unite!
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jacobsen
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Hey, my Rumtopf is full and festering nicely. After six weeks, can I start to eat it? Please please please, can I? Can I?
RE- cabbage, - shredded and lightly steamed, with butter, lemon juice and freshly ground black pepper. Channel Isles butter with sea salt crystals is particularly good.
I shall be sending the cards I bought but couldn't find last year, and which resurfaced during decluttering this summer. If I can remember where I put them. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Jacobsen,
I reckon, especially if this is your first-ever Rumtopf, given that you have plenty of time to make another, it is well in order to call this one an experimental taste-test. After all, if six weeks is good, 12 will be twice as good, right?
I'm happy to help...
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Ferdzy
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I was grumbling about all the stores that had Halloween stuff out in the last week or two, and then today we went to Costco.
That's right.
They have Christmas stuff out on display already.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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My wife LOVES Christmas. We came to an agreement that Christmas could not begin any earlier than (US) Labor Day. That is this coming Monday.
She still has a half dozen little mangers (creches) out from LAST Christmas.
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Meg the Red
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Christmas ribbon and paper appeared in our local Costco in mid-July. And one of my co-workers and I have already made plans for a workplace cookie exchange. I dibsed these chocolate snowballs - if you use butter instead of shortening and omit the nuts, they taste just like chocolate donut holes. (Hmm - a test batch may be in order )
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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THREE MONTHS AND COUNTING!!!
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