Christmas Lunch

Was in the kitchen at 5 am, preparing the turkey stuffing; the turkey went into the oven at 5.45 am and was ready by 10.30 am. I carved it at around 11.30 am - this year, I got wiser, I sat down for the carving which usually takes almost an hour, quite backbreaking when you don't have an electric knife.

Christmas lunch - Huge platter of sliced turkey, gravy (painstakingly made from pan juices and real stock and not a Bisto bottle in sight), potatoes, sausages, stuffing, marinated mushrooms, sprouts with bacon/roasted almonds, glazed carrots and cucumbers/red peppers (to replace peas - can you believe that SS did not have my favourite Birdseye Petit Pois this year or any other peas for that matter - bought some Waitrose tinned peas which were teeny and yellow so they went into the fridge to turn into soup tomorrow).

After lunch, the children launched into a traditional Christmas by playing Scrabble and Monopoly and other card games. I don't know why Hazel was wearing a pink floppy hat indoors - I really don't know.

Hello, what's this?? hehe - it arrived today after a 24/28? hour journey and was delivered to my front door! It's very, very candy baby PINK with matt gold hardware, has a sweet heart shaped mirror, dangly stuff, and phone pouch - it's just too cute!

And what kind of Christmas did you have? Even though I am still sick, I had a lovely one with family and friends and most of all, my kids/family enjoyed their lunch very much and all their presents. Bed for me now - Merry Christmas to one and all! With no other excuse left, this extremely rotund person here will start her diet in the next few days. Even my pyjamas are TIGHT... grrr.