Christmas Eve and it’s raining and windy – how very annoying of the weather not to be bright and dry and a bit chilly. The boys are both out – Rory is at his girlfriend, Juliana’s, house and Dougie is at work: both returning this evening. I really should be making a start on food preparation for tomorrow but am sitting at the computer with a cup of coffee and a festive Cadbury’s Mini Roll.
We did our final supermarket shop last night – decided to stock up at Waitrose for a change. I could tell I was in Waitrose as the woman in front of me at the cheese counter embodied all that their customers should be. Dressed in jeans, boots and a gilet, she had a posh, strident voice and asked the assistant if he could “recommend a stonking good Cheddar, one that will bite me in the bum!” The poor lad behind the counter was a bit fazed by this as he was probably only brought out from the stockroom to help out for the evening. I’ve no idea what she ended up buying: but I do hope her bum appreciated it.
I haven’t shared any of my newspaper columns for months so here are the latest from the last few weeks with a festive feel to them.
The countdown to Christmas is on – Advent calendars past and present.
Ten things to spot in a Nativity play – All those mishaps and adorable tired children.
Family traditions at Christmas – Elf on the Shelf, Christmas pyjamas? Or was it more Morecambe and Wise and an eggnog in our day?
Cooking at Christmas with Nigella – If you watched Nigella’s Christmas special, you might enjoy my take on the show. Pickled beetroot anyone?
I had better get cracking with the pre-Christmas faffing about now. Lunch tomorrow will be for Dougie, Rory and me plus the inlaws and my Auntie Betty. Wish me luck and let’s hope the arthritic charades of the previous years are as memorable as ever. I will report back!
Merry Christmas dear friends.
Too funny, caught your Nigella yesterday, will have to chat up on the rest. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year too x
Yes, please do tell us about this year's arthritic charades – it takes me forever to get through a few paragraphs because I'm laughing so hard. I now feel it wouldn't be ChristmAs without the sports and drama report.
Merry Christmas from your New York correspondent!
The arthritic charades took a back seat this year (shock, horror!) and were replaced by the Headband game. This probably isn't worth a whole blog post so I shall just say that Rory was very quick, asking the right questions to guess who or what he was (name of person or place attached to his forehead) whereas the rest of us kept bobbing up and down to look at family members' heads to remind ourselves – unable to keep four things in our brains for more than a minute!
How was charades?? Laughing at the Waitrose lady. I do love Waitrose but it does attract some types! Last year I saw an awful horsey toothed man berating a young student assistant for running out of BLINIS of all things – I am sure the world ended! Hope you had a wonderful day! 🙂 x
See above for the charades update!
No blinis! That's a sacking offence, surely?
Looking forward to the full Christmas round up too!!! I hope you all had a lovely time and happy new year to you all.
Thank you – hope all was good with you and your family too.