With this recipe I have to thank and give credit to the inestimable Sara Paston-Williams, whose books The National Trust Book of Christmas And Festive Day Recipes and Beatrix Potter's Country Cooking count as some of my favourite cook books ever, both to read and containing vast numbers of recipes I actually want to make and have made, over and ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Hope you've all had a lovely day, I'm off downstairs again now to drag Bacchus away from his latest graphic novel & feed him Christmas pud :-)

I'm excited about quite a few things at the moment:

1. Christmas is coming! (Though it is me that is getting fat rather than the goose, there have been a lot of free chocolate around the last few days...) I am woefully behind on my preparations though. You may find that your card arrives after Christmas...

2. I'm going to see Iron Maiden in 2 ( Read more... )

I love my Christmas counter, now I know exactly how many days left to go before Christmas without having to work it out. I have no excuse for not being organised this time round.

So I got as far as the evening of Christmas Day last time, I think I'll leave my thoughts on Dr Who for a different post and carry on from there. ( More Christmas Ramblings )

Can't believe I've been off line for so long, but I suppose that's what you get when you decide to go away for Christmas and New Year. ( Internet withdrawal )

We finally put up our tree on Saturday night, hooray! The house seems a bit more Christmassy now, even though I haven't had time to knock in nails for for the other decorations yet.
( Christmassy preparations )

Well last night's party was very good as expected. It was a shame I couldn't stay longer, but it takes so long to get back now, I didn't really have any other choice but to leave at 9.40pm. From what I hear I missed out on a lot of good stuff after that, but at least I don't have a hang-over today, unlike the rest of the office :-)
( Gossipy stuff, probably of little interest to anyone as none of you know who I'm talking about )

I haven't really has time to post much about Christmas yet, I either seem to have been too ill or too busy. Tonight however is our office Christmas Party and everyone is in a nice festive mood. Our office Christmas parties are so good that Mixer is giving up the chance to go to the after-show party for the Richard Ashcroft/Coldplay Concert tonight ( Read more... )

Not long to go now ( Read more... )