Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you have a good one whatever you're doing.
Congratulations to @Hostafan1, a truly gorgeous present to cheer you up.
Well, the first hurdle has passed, the turkey's just gone into the oven, Bucks Fizz will be drunk as soon as daughter is ready and I may even go out and plant my new rose. It's actually dry and very mild.
Merry Christmas everyone! It's a very mild morning here. I've just pottered outside with the cats to fill the bird feeders and had a coffee while I give Hubby a lay in.
Just a small Christmas here with the two of us before my brother, father and stepson come for boxing day grazing, football and general slobbing with big bellies!
We are having rib of beef but won't eat until late, not used to eating a large meal in the daytime! Bread sauce goes with everything.... And freezes well if there was ever any left!!!!! I think the best part of Christmas is leftover sandwiches!!!
I hope that every one of you lovely kind and caring people on here has the day you wish for. You all make the world a less lonely and more positive place! Merry Christmas! 🎄
Congratulations @Hostafan1 and ever expanding family!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a huge Congratulations to @Hostafan1 and family for the arrival of a new little baby. There is one thing about Christmas Eve that I really miss these days. All my life I have been involved with a yard full of horses - big horses of mine and those I cared for for other folks, not the miniatures I have now. Every night I did what was known as 'late night stables' between 11pm and midnight where the horses were visited again for a nightly check over, given extra food and hay and had their stables all tidied up for the night. On Christmas eve I would do this a little earlier so that I was finished by 11.50pm. Then I would fetch a coffee and sit down on one of the benches in the yard and wait for the mysterious 'witching hour'. This is the time that once a year the animals are supposed to be able to talk to you (did you not know this?). It was certainly quite magical just sitting there in the dark with the gentle light from each stable throwing a glow out across the yard and the sound of horses munching on their hay. And did I get to communicate with my four footed friends? Well that is for me to know and you to ponder, however some might say that it was all in my imagination. Special days much missed. Have an enjoyable day my friends, my thoughts are with you all.
Congratulations to the Hosta family,(mind you, you could have asked the baby to wait just a few more minutes,) Dove,if I froze my tiny portion of bread sauce,it would vanish into the murky depths of the chest freezer!
Hi all! Christmas dinner has been consumed! We are now relaxing in front of an Agatha Christie film on the tv, with coffee and port. Dinner went well, the home made bread sauce was delicious, and very favourably commented on! So very easy, I’ll definitely be making it from scratch in the future. Thanks for all the advice! I didn’t forget anything this time, no surprises to be discovered tomorrow, hiding neglects in the corner of the oven or the microwave! We ate to a background of Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, and even heard the Kings Christmas message, although that was purely accidental. what a wonderful tradition, @AnnaB, so sorry that you can no longer enjoy it. I’m sure you have lovely memories to pass on to your grandchildren though. My late parents repeated to us every Christmas, of the year that they staggered off to bed having tucked us up for the night, with all the stockings filled ,and the presents under the tree for the morning. Just as they got themselves settled, they heard a thump on the roof, and bells jingling! Didn’t dare get up to look, but pulled the covers over their heads until the morning. We were all entranced! ( disclaimer here - we never actually hung up stockings as children, we put our shoes out for St Nicholas instead, but you get the idea. One year, I had asked for a desk, and woke up in the morning to find one, with two of its legs standing in my shoes!)
How wonderful to have a new grandchild, @Hostafan1! Hope everyone enjoyed their family gatherings, and those that haven’t managed one, that you will still be able to meet up before too long.
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Congratulations to @Hostafan1, a truly gorgeous present to cheer you up.
Well, the first hurdle has passed, the turkey's just gone into the oven, Bucks Fizz will be drunk as soon as daughter is ready and I may even go out and plant my new rose. It's actually dry and very mild.
It's a very mild morning here.
I've just pottered outside with the cats to fill the bird feeders and had a coffee while I give Hubby a lay in.
Just a small Christmas here with the two of us before my brother, father and stepson come for boxing day grazing, football and general slobbing with big bellies!
We are having rib of beef but won't eat until late, not used to eating a large meal in the daytime!
Bread sauce goes with everything.... And freezes well if there was ever any left!!!!!
I think the best part of Christmas is leftover sandwiches!!!
I hope that every one of you lovely kind and caring people on here has the day you wish for. You all make the world a less lonely and more positive place! Merry Christmas! 🎄
Congratulations @Hostafan1 and ever expanding family!
There is one thing about Christmas Eve that I really miss these days. All my life I have been involved with a yard full of horses - big horses of mine and those I cared for for other folks, not the miniatures I have now. Every night I did what was known as 'late night stables' between 11pm and midnight where the horses were visited again for a nightly check over, given extra food and hay and had their stables all tidied up for the night. On Christmas eve I would do this a little earlier so that I was finished by 11.50pm. Then I would fetch a coffee and sit down on one of the benches in the yard and wait for the mysterious 'witching hour'. This is the time that once a year the animals are supposed to be able to talk to you (did you not know this?). It was certainly quite magical just sitting there in the dark with the gentle light from each stable throwing a glow out across the yard and the sound of horses munching on their hay. And did I get to communicate with my four footed friends? Well that is for me to know and you to ponder, however some might say that it was all in my imagination. Special days much missed.
Have an enjoyable day my friends, my thoughts are with you all.
I didn’t forget anything this time, no surprises to be discovered tomorrow, hiding neglects in the corner of the oven or the microwave! We ate to a background of Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, and even heard the Kings Christmas message, although that was purely accidental.
what a wonderful tradition, @AnnaB, so sorry that you can no longer enjoy it. I’m sure you have lovely memories to pass on to your grandchildren though. My late parents repeated to us every Christmas, of the year that they staggered off to bed having tucked us up for the night, with all the stockings filled ,and the presents under the tree for the morning. Just as they got themselves settled, they heard a thump on the roof, and bells jingling! Didn’t dare get up to look, but pulled the covers over their heads until the morning. We were all entranced!
( disclaimer here - we never actually hung up stockings as children, we put our shoes out for St Nicholas instead, but you get the idea. One year, I had asked for a desk, and woke up in the morning to find one, with two of its legs standing in my shoes!)
How wonderful to have a new grandchild, @Hostafan1! Hope everyone enjoyed their family gatherings, and those that haven’t managed one, that you will still be able to meet up before too long.