OMG Pf!! NO!! Don't let the cat or dog anywhere near while you're doing that. They'll have glittery paws for weeks

Still at least you'll never lose them. Just follow the glitter paw marks

My shopping is all done, just put the kids stuff in a bag and sealed it. No wrapping for me!!! I won't be there anyway.

That reminds me; I haven't wrapped W's stuff yet. Now, where did I hide it? Errmmmm.....gotta go....

Yes, I believe it's supposed to be pretty mild over the Christmas, and rainy too no doubt Another grey Christmas and not a white one

Why was the turkey in the band?
Because he had the drumsticks!!!

PF, not sure if that was the first line of a joke or are you asking a question.

What about a recording of a book?

Yeah the rain is being a pain lol it rhymes! I've been waiting to put my peach frame up for weeks now and every time I go to do it the rain stops me. Looks like I might have peach leaf curl next year .

Apparently, white christmas in England is a fallacy and based on the fact that for the first 8 years of Charles Dickens' life it snowed every Christmas, hence the notion of a white Christmas entered his books and into english culture.

Well someone told me that this morning and it sounded good!

Somehow 'I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas' doesn't have quite the same cachet...

Countdown to Christmas: THREE days!




(got my posts mixed up!)

your ham will last several days easily if you keep it in the fridge covered. Don't slice it up cos it will dry up more then.

OMGoodness it's sooooo wet here, the rivers are scarily high and all the roads have huge puddles and streams running over them, good job it's not cold cos the whole country would become an ice rink Still raining too....

starfishy

Frosty if he likes to read and is losing his sight, getting more than one talking book is not a bad thing. Lol about Christmas being so far away, yeah you've got at least ooh one day left to find him something. Good luck with thinking of the present.

since when did you cook your own christmas things - and a ham to boot?????? Either you have a secret foolproof recipe or you're being very ambitious. Post a photo when it's done?

Speaking of which, here's a photo of my Christmas tree onto which I finally hung the lametta today.

And here finally is my Christmas Character (that's what he's called on the box lol.)

So I don't need to write out the countdown from now on.

wow! that is a stunning tree Lampers and look at all those prezzies!! I hope the cat leaves everything alone!

Aw thanks and AV

Lol AV there are two cats in the photo, the other one is peering out from behind the table. I must get around to posting some pix of them, they can be really cute sometimes.

And no they don't chase the decorations either, see Luci, it is possible to have a tree and cats in the same house .

There were still more presents to go under the tree that I put in later. It's a bumper year for prezzies that's for sure, considering there are only two of us here this Christmas.

Got to go now, be back tomorrow

Lovely tree Lamps . My kittens have already destroyed some of the decorations lol

I'm getting ready to go and do the food shop you just know its going to be so busy. I have 9 nights off now so looking forward to the time off.

Have a great day everyone x

Luc

((((Luci))))

Good luck with the food shopping!!
What does it feel like to experience daylight
for a change?

Is you still stuck in that checkout queue Luc? By the time you get to pay for the magnums they've already melted Any longer and you'll have a trolley load of stuff nearing its use by date

Lampers I love the cat under your tree, it looks as if it reading the labels on the presents to see which is his/hers

Actually the store wasn't too bad, I've spent most of my time catching up with the housework just had a nice long soak and chilling now

Luc

Thanks Frosty, Luci and Fishy about the tree .

I've been busy today so haven't had a chance to post my countdown. So really there's not quite 2 days left at all, but it is still today so...

Is that a nice bottle of red falling down water I spy next to your countdown calender Lampers?

LOL sprung!

A nice glass of Bordeaux claret always goes down very nicely Lampers. I'm sure you will enjoy it

Great pics guys. And that is a lovely bottle next to the countdown!!!

Lovely tree in a very lovely room, Lampers. It looks so warm and cozy there.

St. Emilion... ah... love their wines. I was there visiting back in 1990. People were so friendly and we stayed in a great small, elegant hotel, La Pleisance. Nice memories.

Enjoy your holidays!
TN

LOL looks the wine is more interesting than my christmas character .

Unfortunately I took the pix of him in advance so there's yet more wine in the next couple of photos. (He lives next to the Aga and the wine is there to warm up to room temperature. I'm big on doing things well in advance .)

Hope everyone is getting as much into the Christmas spirit as their respective feelings about the festive season allow .

For those of you who like Christmas or have kids, that might need distracting -
Santa has left the North Pole and is heading for Russia, follow his progress on this year's Google Santa tracker
i hope that you all enjoy christmas as much as you can

Wine is simples!! Red = Good
and White = not good easy peasy

No AV

Red wine......DISGUSTING

White wine .....DISGUSTING

Lime vodka......HEAVEN

Ewwww!Lime vodka! Voddy & coke, voddy & lemonade
yummy. What makes you think I have a sweet tooth

Voddy and slimline tonic guys, come on!

Tut I don't drink it with lime, it's called lime vodka and have it lemonade silly billy

Ooops! So what IS lime voddy then, Luc? Is it one of those Grey Goose flavoured voddies?

Thank you for the update on Santa Pingsy, gosh he'll need his wellies on before he comes here; oh well here's hoping so stockings going up in readiness

Not another exercise in 'r**d k**l' I hope

How's the ham?

Poke it with a skewer and if it still goes 'oink' it needs a bit longer

You'll never get a skewer through dino hide
Well, not unless you take a long run up at it....then I might dribble a little red wine

Boil for 20 mins/500g, then you can always glaze and finish off in a hot oven for 20 mins or so - or not

((((()))))

Just wanted to pop in and wish you all peace this Christmas.

Mmmm... Lovely sweet ham.... Hope it's turned out ok, Draggers!


Love to all xxx