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🎄HELLO FORKERS🎄Dec ‘21 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Good Christmas Eve morning everyone.

    Dismal and grey but no rain today. Last minute things to do but overall, a quiet day.

    Today's expression is:  Beau temps à la Sainte-Adèle, Est un cadeau du ciel.
                                      Entre Sainte Adèle et Saint Vincent (22nd January) 
                                      Les gelées ont le plus mordant.

    Stay safe.  Have an excellent day.

    Tui
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Thank you @tui34 … you’re very good for my schoolgirl French 😊 
    I’m constantly amazed at how much I understand when I did so badly in my French exams … but then I remember being incredibly nervous. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    Quite a mild day here, so may get a little light gardening done.
    We have a lovely line caught Sea Bass for dinner tonight, which we shall have with a bottle of Puligny Montrachet [ for those who are interested in such things ]

    Have a lovely day everyone.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Good morning Forkers.  Rain overnight then started misty but the sun has broken thru tho ever so low - just above the trees along the way.

    I have taken the capon out of the freezer for Boxing Day dinner.   I might even make stuffing tho not cooked in the cavity.  OH picks and peels his sprouts @Dovefromabove.  Other than that some quiet pottering in the garden and some present wrapping and a bit of a tidy of the last of the Xmas decorations palaver.

    Pleased you can have your family for Xmas @Pat E.   

    Have fun with all the last minute preps and enjoy your day everyone.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • That sounds very good indeed @punkdoc ... best Christmas wishes to both of you ((hugs))

    I do love a 'capon' / cockerel @Obelixx .... I much prefer it to turkey.  I stuff the breast of poultry, lifting the skin and sliding a wadge of stuffing underneath it, then put sprigs of herbs and a quartered onion, and sometimes the juiced half shells of an orange or lemon in the body cavity before sewing up and trussing ... it gives  lovely juices for basting and making gravy.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    morning all. 
    Nobody can accuse me of overbuying for xmas 

    Devon.
  • It's ok @Hostafan1 ... the shops won't go bust ... I think we've got your share of 'extras' ...  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Apparently the Germans have a word for it ... "hamsterkauf" ... buying and hoarding more food and groceries than one could possibly need.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Is that fruit salad on the top shelf Hostafan? Nothing like a nice fruit salad. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Love sea bass @punkdoc.  Bon appétit!

    Haven't decided how to cook our capon yet @Dovefromabove.  It will be a first.  haven't done a turkey for about 15 years and I used a Gary Rhodes recipe for that - spatchcocked and a pork mince "stuffing" cooked on its own as a terrine.   

    No treats then @Hostafan1 ?  or are you thinking of a last minute raid for stuff on sale?  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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