Christmassy Waffle
Dec. 9th, 2017 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo We have two Christmas trees- both artificial- a little one and a big one. I went for minimalism when I dressed the big tree and left off all the decorations apart from the wooden ones I bought years ago in a newsagents in Oldham and the LED lights. Ailz and my mother have limited tolerance for the lights- which flash blue and white- but I love them. The small tree sits on a chest of drawers and has lights that don't flash and no-one complains if I leave them on all day.
I think we've bought all our Christmas presents now. I think we have...
Christmas cards, we'll send a few but then again too few to mention. My mother still sends cards- or has them sent on her behalf. I suspect some of them will land at addresses the recipient has vacated for ever. Is Hilary my mother's wartime compadre and my dear, spirited godmother still alive? How does one find out short of booking a séance?
Ailz ordered a box of exotic meats for her seasonal feasting. There's kangaroo burgers and crocodile burgers. I'm not sure what I'll be eating- but it won't be any of those. So long as there are chips I don't really care.
The traditional Christmas dinner? Not that big a fan. I had a nut roast last year in place of turkey. I've always thought turkey was over-rated even when I was a meat eater. All the flavour comes from the trimmings.
Sugar is addictive. The more you eat the more you want. These days I avoid it as much as I can because it's evil. I still like Christmas pudding but the ones we've bought this year have no sugar added. I broke one out to see what it was like and it was fine. It's been a long time since I wanted to eat Christmas cake. Once you start to lay off the sweet stuff your tolerance for sugar decreases and things you once craved turn nasty. I quite like the idea of mince pies- but I know most of the ones I'll be offered will set my teeth on edge. Perhaps I'll try making my own with unsweetened pastry and sugar-free mincemeat. Or perhaps I'll make little cheese and onion pies instead because that's what I'd prefer.
There was frost overnight and the temperature this morning is only just above freezing. It's a bright, sunny day. Other parts of the country have had snow. I went to see if the horses needed the ice in their water butt breaking up but they'd done it themselves.
I think we've bought all our Christmas presents now. I think we have...
Christmas cards, we'll send a few but then again too few to mention. My mother still sends cards- or has them sent on her behalf. I suspect some of them will land at addresses the recipient has vacated for ever. Is Hilary my mother's wartime compadre and my dear, spirited godmother still alive? How does one find out short of booking a séance?
Ailz ordered a box of exotic meats for her seasonal feasting. There's kangaroo burgers and crocodile burgers. I'm not sure what I'll be eating- but it won't be any of those. So long as there are chips I don't really care.
The traditional Christmas dinner? Not that big a fan. I had a nut roast last year in place of turkey. I've always thought turkey was over-rated even when I was a meat eater. All the flavour comes from the trimmings.
Sugar is addictive. The more you eat the more you want. These days I avoid it as much as I can because it's evil. I still like Christmas pudding but the ones we've bought this year have no sugar added. I broke one out to see what it was like and it was fine. It's been a long time since I wanted to eat Christmas cake. Once you start to lay off the sweet stuff your tolerance for sugar decreases and things you once craved turn nasty. I quite like the idea of mince pies- but I know most of the ones I'll be offered will set my teeth on edge. Perhaps I'll try making my own with unsweetened pastry and sugar-free mincemeat. Or perhaps I'll make little cheese and onion pies instead because that's what I'd prefer.
There was frost overnight and the temperature this morning is only just above freezing. It's a bright, sunny day. Other parts of the country have had snow. I went to see if the horses needed the ice in their water butt breaking up but they'd done it themselves.
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Date: 2017-12-11 09:14 pm (UTC)Depending on the diligence of the current occupier, your name and address on the back of the envelope should result in the card eventually being returned, if the addressee is no longer at the address (which of course doesn't entirely answer your question, but does at least indicate future cards to that address would be a waste of time). I chuck such things back in the post, but maybe I am unusual.
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Date: 2017-12-12 09:01 am (UTC)