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Welease Woderwick
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QLib, an old soak once told me that champagne tastes better after the 10th glass.
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Don't think I've ever met a glass of champagne I didn't like, whatever its place in the batting order.
Rummaging in the big cupboard that serves as our cellar for a Canard Duchene 2000 we thought we had, but don't, and came across all sorts of fizz we didn't think we had, but do. Including 3 bottles of Methode Ancestral from Limoux, which really need to be consumed.
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I've just noticed daisydaisy's comment about angels hatching, which reminds me - in Barbarella, Pygar the angel lives in a nest.
And Qlib - you could always tie a bow around the neck of the champagne bottle and give it to someone else! (not that I recycle presents at all....)
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In the slowest start to Christmas for many years we have just finished breakfast (croissants & Buck's Fizz) at 12:20. The turkey is now in the oven, complete with a potato up its bum (but I doubt it cares).
I've done my Ship's rounds, so Merry Christmas/Nadolig Llawen to you all.
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Joyeuses fetes,mes chers amis. Have a lovely day. We've had fizzies and smoked salmon, present pause, foie gras and talk, now it's games before roast forerib of beef, and then the Doctor (Who, that is, not medical emergency!)
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Happy Christmas everyone ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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A good day.
The salmon is going down, but there's so much of it. Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast in the morning, yum.
Oh and I've got the job. Well as soon as someone receives the return email on Thursday. I start on Monday 7th January.
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Great news about the job, balaam.
Breakfast sounds lovely. I like smoked salmon done in many ways but with scrambled eggs it makes a delicious breakfast.
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Originally posted by balaam:
Oh and I've got the job. Well as soon as someone receives the return email on Thursday. I start on Monday 7th January.
Ooh, congratulations - great start to the new year!
Enjoyable day here too. Just great to read books, watch TV, unwind, eat, and not feel that I ought to be doing anything in particular.
(Is there a support hotline for people suffering from Christmas Telly? What with the end of Merlin yesterday and now Downton Abbey, am feeling slightly shattered.)
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Originally posted by balaam:
...The salmon is going down, but there's so much of it. Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast in the morning, yum ....
Us too - we had sherry, mince pies and sausage rolls after the morning service, so didn't feel the need for the SE/SS brunch that we'd planned.
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Oh and I've got the job ...
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Good day here too: morning service v. small but perfectly formed (the Bishop sang the service very nicely), followed by goodies as detailed above, then GIN with one of the tenors followed by family phone-calls, pressie-opening and then turkey and the works with friends.
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Congrats on the job, balaam!
I really shouldn't be sitting here, I should be heading into town to get some photoprinting done and a little light shopping - but I was up and out at 6 a.m. for an hour's cycle ride, lovely at that hour of the morning.
And the days will be drawing out now for all the folks in UK, it always felt a little better for me just knowing that.
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Congratulations, Balaam - hope it all goes splendidly.
Happy Christmas, Shippies, little late but didn't touch my computer yesterday. Actually got to a Christmas Morning service, first time ever, I think. Unfortunately the church (not my usual one) had very strange acoustics, with a slight echo, so I had great difficulty in hearing anything. Still,I belted out three carols with the rest of them. But found the service a bit perfunctory.
Didn't seem like Christmas, just the two of us, instead of a big family gathering, and rather sad.
I've got some home-made stollen left over - it actually tastes like stollen, though if you don't like marzipan, it won't be your thing!
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Congratulations indeed, Balaam. Always good to have good news from someone on the job front. I hope it all goes very well for you.
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Congratulations, balaam!
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Oh and I've got the job. Well as soon as someone receives the return email on Thursday. I start on Monday 7th January.
Well done - marvellous news!
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Balaam, congratulations on getting the job As someone who is in the limbo situation of seeking new employment (and repeatedly coming second in interview!), I know how precious that news can be and I will be thinking of you with your new beginning on January 7th.
Nicodemia, it must have been strange having a quiet Christmas when that's not what you're used to. My sister found the same, I think, with all her family struck down with the flu! We were planning to go up and visit her but had a last minute change of plan as my brother was still here after his operation. He'll be going back to Scotland later today. I love Stollen, by the way ![[Biased]](wink.gif) You've just reminded me I have a box of them in the cupboard - my secret store!
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Congratulations, Baalam!
Christmas Day started well (in spite of the incipient cold I had been aware of since Christmas Eve) but the cold really took hold in the afternoon and I retired to bed early....no presents, not much lunch......with a headache, earache, temperature, and sore throat.
I hope everyone else's day was better....
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I had the beginnings of a migraine but kicked out friend visiting and went for a lie down so just about caught it in time - other than that really quiet - BLISS!
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It's a slightly adapted version of something I posted elsewhere.
All the shopping was completed in time and without hassle. My neighbours on both sides are away for Christmas. The place is silent, and in the evenings it's been good just to sit with a cup of mulled wine, enjoying the warm glow of the halogen fire: it's like firelight, and bright enough to read by, so I can catch up on favourite Christmas stories. The Christmas tree is sparkling behind the fire, and you can smell the spices from the mulled wine. Mince pies and dark chocolate to hand. Not doing anything in particular: just enjoying the evenings.
I'm going to miss the peace and silence when the world starts to gear up again and the new year begins - especially when it's time to take the tree down.
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I've just had my Christmas Dinner.
Veggie nut roast, leeks and mushrooms sauteed in butter, and a massive amount of home-made bread sauce.
Yes, I know I'm a day late, but as I only had myself to see to, I decided to delay lots of cooking until today, having spent the week in between end of term and Christmas Day playing for lots of services or carol singing. I had lots of easy grab-out-of-the-fridge festive food available for yesterday and until I felt energetic enough to cook.
Then, I've had my annual Christmas domestic drama. A lock has decided to die on me. Luckily, it's an internal door, and it's one I can do something about without having to call out a locksmith. But, I am currently separated from the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner whilst I slowly saw through the bit of metal. (I am about three/quarters of the way through.) That will teach me to (a) forget that lock has been dodgy ever since I moved in, and had been meaning to do something about it before now, and (b) be over-zealous about locking up when away overnight. It seemed sensible to accept an offer of a bed for the night between Midnight Mass and Christmas Day 10.00 a.m., given I live three miles away from church, and there would've been no public transport.
What is also lucky is that I'd done a huge pile of laundry, and vacuumed everywhere over the weekend, so I do not feel at all guilty at not rushing to liberate both machines.
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I've also spent Christmas with a cold, sore throat and a chesty cough. I suspect I have my annual chest infection (I'm asthmatic) but it feels viral so I'm sure it will eventually go of its own accord.
We went to the Grantchester barrel race today. It's basically a tournament between the Grantchester pubs with a local inter- village league as well. They run in relays pushing huge barrels down a road. We live in the next village so we always go to watch. Alas, our team came third.
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... I have a box of [Stollen] in the cupboard - my secret store!
Not exactly secret now, is it? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
We were heading to the Cathedral today for D's weekly organ recital when we noticed that someone had left a small drawer unit outside their house; people do that here, in the hope that someone will take it away, so we did. It's exactly what we need for the kitchen/dining-room, and with a lick of paint and some new drawer-handles it'll be just right. I'd never really thought about the existence or otherwise of Father Christmas, but now I'm not so sure ...
There's a pot of veggie soup on the stove if anyone's in need of Inner Comfort.
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The veggie soup sounds yummy but we have just partaken in a light lunch of some freshly baked baps with rashers of smoked venison topped with Stilton (goat's cheese for the youngest who, rather oddly, doesn't share the same blue cheese genes as the rest of us), served with baby salad and accompanied by sparking organic orange and lemon juice. It felt quite relaxed and almost healthy compared with the large dinners over the last couple of days.
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
... baby salad and ... organic orange and lemon juice ...
Oh for goodness' sake!
I'm just back from a 60th birthday/retirement bash for one of the tenors in our choir. There was an open bar (he likes his wine) and a huge buffet done by a local Chinese restaurant.
Good food, good drink and excellent company.
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For the first time in too long we had friends round in a vain attempt to polish off the Xmas leftovers. Some hope for these reasons:
- Mrs Sioni buys more stuff
- Guests bring their own leftovers
- Some guests misunderstand and eat beforehand
- Turkey the size of a cow
Kitchen now resembles the field after the Feeding of the Five Thousand.
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I think our invitation must have got lost in the post, Sioni. I have a very handy teenage boy which sort of makes leftovers a thing of the past. Though we do still have some Stollen hidden away
Taking cat to the vet's for a checkup today. He's doing rather well for a cat that's so poorly so I am confident he'll be coming home with us, though it looks like our daily routine of me sticking my fingers in his mouth, liberally spread with butter and tablets, and him making tiny incisions into them with his razor sharp teeeth, will be continuing for a while.
Rather nice to discover I'm on annual leave today. Hadn't expected that on my first day back after sick leave!
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... baby salad and ... organic orange and lemon juice ...
Oh for goodness' sake!
I'm making up for it now with bacon, eggs, sausages and bubble and squeak
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These Twixmas days are turning out to be very pleasant and productive - today I've had a major potter with results that really belong on the Decluttering Support thread and that included de-gunking the street gutter and (hic) bottling this year's blackberry wine ready for next Christmas - anyone fancy having an early sample of it?
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I don't know - I think blackberry wine sounds rather scary. My dad used to make blackcurrant wine which was a very pretty rosé colour, and tasted sort of OK-ish but engendered a hangover with a half-life of about a fortnight. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Absolutely filthy day here today - it sn*wed for a good bit of the morning, but it didn't really accumulate very much and then turned to rain. Serious rain. We went to the local shopping centre and after we'd had a bite to eat and a wee look round D. left me to get on with it. I got soaked just walking from the main building to one of the "box stores" across the car-park - a raft wouldn't have been a bad idea.
Still, you don't have to shovel rain.
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Duvet day for me today - stinking cough - grrrr!
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Hope you soon feel better, Boogie, and that it doesn't turn into the dreaded Norovirus!
With the weather as it is here, under the duvet sounds like a good idea!
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Ah, Boogie. That's probably my fault as I was up in boogieland over Christmas and had the cold then. I introduced the germs I think.
Sorry...
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Had a lovely afternoon with the boys at the Fitzwilliam museum (we even had a contest to count willies in the Greek section). Afterwards we popped into a small Japanese restaurant for an early dinner which we finished off with deep fried green tea ice cream. When we got back home we played Carcassone before watching 'How to train your dragon'. A lovely family day and it was good to get out of the house for a few hours.
I hope you're feeling better Boogie and the rest of you are having a good week
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Duvet day for me today - stinking cough - grrrr!
Here, have some whisky. Add it to a large cup of Lem-sip or similar made up according to the instructions, with a couple of teaspoons each of lemon juice and Manuka honey. Then go to bed.
I've had a moderately busy day today - I was acting as the verger for a wedding (money ). Fortunately the mounds of snow with which we were being threatened didn't materialise, and they were even able to have a few photographs taken outside the West doors - the bride very sensibly had a fur-lined cape to put on over her dress.
I've made my potato salad for the Choir party, which is after the carol service tomorrow night, and the spinach, mushroom and orange one is just a last-minute assembly job.
quite organised piglet ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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We had a couple of hours of heavy and much needed rain overnight, the only problem being that a sack of cement got soaked so we may have to buy another one - ah well, it's only money.
Now if we could have the same every night for the next couple of weeks we'd be well happy, though doubtless the farmers would find something to complain about.
Off to the local equivalent of a stag night this afternoon a few kms up the road.
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You want rain? Have some of ours. About to get up for church for the last time this year.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Duvet day for me today - stinking cough - grrrr!
Here, have some whisky. Add it to a large cup of Lem-sip or similar made up according to the instructions, with a couple of teaspoons each of lemon juice and Manuka honey.
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Add to that the wonder-ingredient - a good pinch (or small teaspoon) of turmeric. It really helps.
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Here, have some whisky. Add it to a large cup of Lem-sip or similar made up according to the instructions, with a couple of teaspoons each of lemon juice and Manuka honey. Then go to bed.
Thank you. It did help
You can tell I was poorly - I didn't visit he Ship all day after that!
Glad the snow stayed away for piglet and the rain came down for WW.
Remember me whinging in Hell about the hosepipe ban and that it falls out of the sky and (in the UK) if it isn't doing so now it will soon? I was right. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Much as I appreciate the good advice being shared about cold remedies, I have to say that the best thing I read all winter was the advisory remedy for post-viral cough. I was getting quite fed up of my post-viral cough until I realised that the best known cure for it was.... believe it or not.... chocolate *cough cough*
Now I'm almost disappointed that it's getting better!
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HALLELUJAH!
I mean, good to know.
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I usually recommend a good strong curry in such cases - works for me, though not everyone likes curry.
Sunny this morning - very odd and unusual. We're back to normal weather later. Meanwhile am enjoying some lovely old black and white films - "Notorious" with Claude Rains, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman was on TV recently which was pretty good, am thinking of getting a DVD of it. You can't beat the old classics - "Casablanca" and "Brief Encounter" are still good, and I'll watch anything with Leslie Howard in it.
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I once tried to make a home-made remedy when I had a cold - I found all the hottest spices, sauces etc I could find and fried them up with onions, garlic etc. It all looked a bit unpalatable, so I decided to make it a bit more bearable and mixed it with baked beans. I don't think I even finished the plate before I needed an urgent loo visit (let's just say I would have left Usain Bolt standing) and any cold-curing goodness exited way before it could do any good. I had that cold for weeks! Chocolate sounds far more sensible
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Sorry.
Once I had a chest cold and I needed not to have a cold. It was the evening before my first university graduation (way back in the dark ages).
I had about 6 ounces of white rum the night before. I slept like a baby. On wakening, I coughed once, and appeared to bring up one whole lung. But I didn't have a cold.
The only reason I went to graduation was because my mother wanted to see me graduate. I never told her that she had come close to seeing an empty seat.
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My son is home for Christmas and brought a few bottles of Underberg - well, it certainly tastes like cough medicine!
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Remember me whinging in Hell about the hosepipe ban and that it falls out of the sky and (in the UK) if it isn't doing so now it will soon? I was right.
Another government u-turn, they declare a drought and then it rains for most of the year.
A cold but dry day here, quite sunny. After church we played games again, we're trying to limit the computer a bit during the holidays as my kids are somewhat obsessed ( my 12 year old already does some programming and is designing basic games).
Handmade (but not by me) ham and leek pie with baby salad for tea.
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Uncle Pete
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What the heck is a "baby salad" and aren't the neighbours suspicious, yet?
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mrs whibley
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Originally posted by PeteC:
Sorry.
Once I had a chest cold and I needed not to have a cold. It was the evening before my first university graduation (way back in the dark ages).
I had about 6 ounces of white rum the night before. I slept like a baby. On wakening, I coughed once, and appeared to bring up one whole lung. But I didn't have a cold.
The only reason I went to graduation was because my mother wanted to see me graduate. I never told her that she had come close to seeing an empty seat.
I wish I'd known that for my second (PhD) graduation! I had a terrible sore throat and when it came to singing the National Anthem (do they still do that?) I stood up, opened my mouth and no sound came out! Not wishing to be taken for a republican, not because that's a terrible thing but just because I'm not one, I ended up miming like a Top of the Pops star. After that the day just went downhill. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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