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Brenda Clough
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Well, there's another issue. We are still pending news about grandchildren. I can't wait for ever.
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Piglet
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Another two months, and it'll all be over bar the shouting and the turkey fricassee ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Lothlorien
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No turkey for me. I would eat it were it served me at a dinner, but it is definitely not my favourite. Chicken or duck. Besides, it will be summer here and i don't want the oven on for hours.
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Baptist Trainfan
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For some years we have had roast venison (with a rather fetching Lirac red wine to drink).
However the other years we had our son and daughter-in-law for Christmas. She doesn't care for venison, so we had some incredibly expensive but amazingly delicious Belted Galloway beef from a local farm shop.
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Lothlorien
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Venison is available here but hard to find and expensive. Our family Christmas this year will be on December 19 and will be held at Windor Polo Club about an hour from me. Everyone brings food and there is always too much, no matter how we say we will cut down.
Big grounds, lots of shady trees, good facilities. My niece has been playing polo for two or three years now and has two ponies of her own. She organised a tournament last year with visits from teams from Argentina and other Australian teams. She went on an African safari, no shooting except photos, earlier this year and played polo in Kenya. Off to Argentina next month for more polo.
She acts as a volunteer assistant to one of the people from polo club, so we can use the ground. In between playing polo, she runs her own business importing chemicals used by hospitals and unis for treatment and research.
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LeRoc
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19 December seems a but cold to be outside. Are you going to play polo?
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Jengie jon
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In Australia I think Lothlorien's problem will not be cold.
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LeRoc
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Ah sorry, for a moment I thought I was on the British thread. I'll also be below the Equator for Christmas, so no cold for me either.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
For some years we have had roast venison ...
However the other years we had our son and daughter-in-law for Christmas ...
You never mentioned your cannibalism before, BT ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
Loth, your niece's life sounds like something from a Jilly Cooper book (although I'm sort of presuming she's better behaved than most of Mrs. Cooper's characters).
I quite agree with you about turkey - if we didn't have to have it, we wouldn't. The Cathedral (bless them) give us a turkey for Christmas every year, and a couple from the choir usually have us and a few others round for Christmas dinner. We give them the turkey, and they cook it (our oven isn't big enough anyway, so it suits quite well). Sometimes they add something else (a goose or whatever) if the turkey we're given isn't big enough.
If left to our own devices, we'd probably have pheasant or duck if we could get it, or a nice roast leg of lamb.
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Spike
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It's just the two of us this year, so I'm going to get a pheasant. I've seen a really good recipe that includes chestnut stuffing and port & chestnut sauce.
[ 26. October 2015, 11:55: Message edited by: Spike ]
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marzipan
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It's a bank holiday here today, so I'm baking my Christmas cake. Now I just need to remember to feed it lots of rum in the next two months!
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Piglet
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I think if I made Christmas cakes I'd be with you there, La Vie - I really don't like the flavour of rum, so if I were feeding a cake, it would probably be with brandy or possibly whisky.
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marzipan
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I love rum so any fruit cakes which involve alcohol have rum in if I'm making them - then I can drink the rest of the bottle later :-)
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by Piglet:
...Sometimes they add something else (a goose or whatever) if the turkey we're given isn't big enough...
As my sainted mother never said there's nothing like a goose on Christmas Day!
Sorry, my adolescent sense of humour is still hanging about.
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Piglet
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Long may that continue, WW.
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Sioni Sais
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Preparation on the food & drink front has been sporadic so far, but a fair amount of planning for present giving has been done. Actual buying seems to be confined to gifts for our grandson! I think we will need a van for his stuff while Xmas dinner will consist of sausages OR mash, not both.
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Piglet
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A month to go!
Get peeling, chopping, slicing and wrapping (and that's just your relatives ... )
I have started my Christmas shopping (sort of), and we've actually delivered our first Christmas card. No matter that it was bought (along with a couple of dozen others) in Orkney and delivered the following week to D's mum ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
The plum chutney that I made in September with a glut of plums from a friend's tree should be maturing nicely - another week or two and I'll do some Quality Control to see if it's fit to give to people as presents.
The staff in Tim Horton's at w*rk were wearing Father Christmas hats and talking about putting on "Christmas music"* today. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
That sort of thing (along with decorating domestic trees before the start of Advent) makes the Baby Jesus cry.
* probably Bing bl**dy Crosby - another thing that makes the Baby Jesus cry.
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Pigwidgeon
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I can't imagine why a Roman Catholic was putting up their Nativity Scene before the start of Advent (though I note no people or animals had arrived, so maybe they're added a few at a time until the Holy Family arrives on Christmas), but it served as a safe haven for a newborn babe. I don't know what this poor mother was dealing with, but she found a warm, safe place for her baby, and he is being cared for.
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Uncle Pete
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What a touching story. I hope the end is happy.
In other news, the sprouts must be starting to be tender, eh?
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Lothlorien
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Nope, Pete. I just poked them with a fork. Still a bit hard and there is a hint of green left on them. Need more time.
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Welease Woderwick
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A month from now it will all be over for another year!
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
... she found a warm, safe place for her baby, and he is being cared for.
I love this quote in the article, from the parish priest:
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the baby “seemed very healthy and was said to be in stable condition.”
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Piglet
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# 11803
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I took a dose of the head-staggers today and went shopping.
Quite successful shopping, as it turned out - a couple of pressies bought, and candle-bridges for the windows that didn't have them. They have now been installed, and are warming the cockles of my northerly* little heart. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
* We first saw them 20 years ago in Iceland, where there seemed to be a set in every window, and although they're pretty much ubiquitous now, I still associate them with Northerly Latitudes™.
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Piglet
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Confession time: I put up the tree and the rest of the decorations today, as I happened to have the house to myself and we'd taken them out of the glory-hole when we were putting the summer tyres away.
Though I say it what shouldn't, with white lights and garlands festooning various bits of the house, it all looks rather pretty.
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