I love Christmas!

mamie oh dear!

GA. Respect. . I hope you will stay well during the festivities.

GAgood luck with the parsnips,I love them roasted,we don't have a community Christmas in our village,what a lovely thing to be involved in,I would live that.
Will be taking E to the christingle .she really enjoys thatxxxx

I also love roasted parsnips and roasted carrots plus garlic

Oh, I do hate parsnips! Sorry folks. I like Brussels spouts with chilli and chestnuts, though.

I love sprouts...a very misunderstood veg due to over cooking.

I hate them crunchy. Like them soft with gravy and vinegar!

I like them too!

What's so great about sprouts? Pardon the indelicacy, but they give me wind . Prefer broccoli any day - or even every day.

I love sprouts too, what's not to like? [fwind]

4 more sleeps then the Big Man Arrives .

Soooo looking forward to it all !

I like the run up to Xmas. Like the actual days as well though.

Five, surely, Nonu?

Lets do the math , the Big Man arrives Monday 24th night time .

23rd, 22nd,21st,20th = 4nights .

Gin o'clock was earlier tonight having spent the day cleaning, cooking, shopping, ironing, more cooking, present wrapping. I think I could do with another week

Yes. I could too. But there again, I would probably drop from exhaustion.

I do maths, and anyway, he doesn't come before midnight on the 24th!

I love Christmas too but this year we are having it on Boxing Day due to it being the "in laws turn". It will just be my OH and myself on Christmas day and we are looking forward to a quiet day, scrambled egg on toast for lunch and ham and cheeses for supper. We will have a nice bottle of red and of course a box of chocs, and we will be very happy. My Mother, and others of her generation, were a burden at Christmas as they couldn't possibly have been left out, and I learnt so much from that situation. I see my DDs and GC most days so it will be no problem and they feel quite happy because we are happy. I am so glad I have learnt from experience.

Golly gosh , we certainly splitting hairs here .... CSL

Roll on Big Man , we need your goodwill here

Lots and lots of frivolity and gaiety .

Oh, Nonu, you're so lucky not to have to worry about anything. Will you be cooking on the day itself, and have you done all the preparations? If so, well done - we haven't all got time to be frivolous and gay!

??Oh gosh of course i will be cooking , in fact 2 days , Christmas Day DD will arriving about 4pm , so I am doing " of those 3 bird roasts . after Communium at 8am. The children will go to bed at about 7/8 then we will have card games.

Boxing Day I will be cooking the turkey that DD has brought down . we have champagne and smoked salmon starters both days and a very , very good time will be had by all .

I am more than happy to cook to ensure that we have a happy and laughter filled time . Of course everyone joins in .

What do others do

Bless u Ana , why do say I don"t have to worry about anything ???

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I'm more of a baking person than cooking. DD gets the stuffing and bread sauce done on Xmas Eve. Then I do the actual dinner on Xmas Day. And DD does the Boxing Day dinner. Turkey Xmas Day, pork on Boxing Day when I let the grandsons in the house the others come.

Nonu

Sounds like my cup of tea, any room for another.

Card games, chase the ace etc?

The best laid plans... Tomorrow I am booked to go to Sandhurst, changing at Reading. However, younger DS rang in a panic. Partner's mum was going to stay with them and look after the GC on Sunday, but has now got the noro virus and has to stay at home in Northern Ireland. So I am now going to break my journey at Didcot and watch the boys on Sunday, then go on to Sandhurst late afternoon. I hope the toothache/sinus pain clears completely by then.