Have put Christmas Decorations up

[7tree_hugger]

We're a "Christmas Eve to Twelfth Night" family by tradition, but I'm not here then so I've put them up now. First time I've decorated my own place (I've always been sharing/lodging before and never had the right).

Comments

[saminz]

We'll need pictures, obviously ;-)!

[7tree_hugger]

I tried, but they looked a bit mingy... maybe when it's a bit darker they'll sparkle more?

[saminz]

Sure - Lights do tend to look sort of more noticeable in the dark ;-).
Depends on camera, of course...

Thanks in advance :-)!

[7tree_hugger]

Pics are up :D

sparklies!

[thenea]

*holds out bowl for soup*

Re: sparklies!

[7tree_hugger]

*serves soup*

Sparklies indeed!

Re: sparklies!

[thenea]

Mmmmmmm... thankee!
:D

soup? *perks*

[nycbrujah]

That sounds fantastic! I <3 soups!

Will trade my recipe for veggie/lentil soup for your Onion/Carrot/Leek barley? soup!

Re: soup? *perks*

[7tree_hugger]

It's not a very exciting recipe, but it is supposed to give an energy boost in the middle of the day which I've been struggling with.

Olive oil
1 large Carrot
1 large onion
1 large leek
1 litre veg stock
5 tablespoons pot barley (has more of the husk on than pearl barley for slower release energy).

Sweat the veg in the olive oil, add the veg stock, bring to the boil, add barley, simmer for an hour and serve. The recipe says simmer with a bay leaf, but I didn't have one. Seems ok so far, but I'll try it with Bay next time.

[poshlil]

Aww, sparkly! We're a first-of-December to NYE family. I still haven't taken pictures of ours though; must get onto that.

[poshlil]

also BARLEY! One of my favourite ever things.

I can give you recipe for awesome pumpkin soup (and believe me, it's a million kinds of awesome), but you need a blender to whizz it. Dost thou has? Also I can give recipe for chicken soup, assuming whole chickens don't cost ALL your delicious euros. I'm craving it something fierce, but of course chickens have doubled in price because it's Christmas and everyone wants one, so I'm not buying them on principle until they make the price sensible again.

[7tree_hugger]

Don't really like pumpkin, but thank you all the same. Also no blender.

*huggles*

[vectorz]

Shinies. Very nice.

And an Escher poster, I approve of that :)

I a "what christmas?" person and won't do decorations. They would melt or something anyway :)

I can trade recipe for pumpkin and random vegetables soup.

[7tree_hugger]

You like Escher? Eeeexcellent. I have another one on another wall.

What is it with everyone making pumpkin soup? Does Pumpkin multiply to the point of redundancy?

[vectorz]

Yeah, it's the big pumpkin conspiracy. What do you thing all these jack-o-lanterns are for, hm?

It's also rather easy to turn into soup :)

[7tree_hugger]

There's a Pumpkin conspiracy? As well as all the other conspiracies? Dear me, I'll never got to the bottom of all this.

But so are so many TASTY vegetables. Chop, chop, simmer, soup. Job done.