Time for a coffee break? You might enjoy this. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...k?shareToken=43df612bc3f21da6a6861768a5c224e8
Mme has spent most of December shopping for Christmas and baking including 2 Christmas cakes! The fridge is full and the garage is an overflow area. We have every type of wine available, so much that my beer had to be moved to the garage too. I hope a lot of this food doesn't go to waste (I hate wasting food) so will monitor it, but I think we are pretty good a preserving uneaten food. I am deliberately not enquiring how much all this has cost, it will make me cry. Looking forward to 2 weeks of eating and drinking and not much else. Oh there are only the 2 of us!
No politics on here Scully Actually Christmas is partly a political celebration bearing in mind the socialist nature of most of the teachings of Jesus.
I had a feeling that you first contribution on here after your recent sojourn would be of a political nature SH. Actually Jesus probably looked a bit more like Bob Marley did - thousands of years of depictions of blond and pale Jesuses have blinded us to his 'ethnic' origins.
Can we keep all politics off this thread please. I do not want to waste my time deleting and editing posts.
I have plenty to do thanks SH. If you wish to come and move logs along a flooded green lane for a few hours your labour would be received with pleasure.
It sounds tempting, I'm not a fan of xmas. Any excuse to miss the over commercialised UK nonsense is considered. Unfortunately it is my youngest daughter's birthday on the 25th so clearing off is apparently not an option. Xmas in France is my ideal, low key. Forget my humbug, season's greetings to all.
Are we to take this as an admission that you actually contribute humbug to these threads A happy Christmas to all on here, Brexiteers included. I hope you are still going to have Brussels sprouts this year.
Good morning, Dave; good morning, all. Great article about Pearson, ofh. Keeping football in proportion, will enable everyone at the club to really focus their efforts.
Morning all... Off to Harlow Carr RHS this morning to visit Santa in his grotto and then a brunch at Betty's. My job is to queue for a table! Hopefully I can sneak off and have a look round the plant shop
Morning all. It is raining again. Sad news from our town that our one remaining baker has retired. At one time there were three, but they have all closed. This one has been manning the ovens for 26 years, six days a week. A morning bake before the first customers at 7.30am, and an afternoon bake around 3.00pm. He survived because his varied selection of loaves were the best, and people were prepared to pay that bit more than the supermarkets charge to have the choice. I was reading about the effects that Aldi and Lidl are having on the UK market, with the big four having to slash their prices to compete. 500g of Brussel Sprouts for 19p in Tesco barely covers the cost, but if the foreign companies can bring them in for that price then Tesco have to respond. I must do some investigating in one of my outbuildings where I think some wildlife is setting up home for the winter. A large bag of bird seed has been attacked and my suspicion is that the voles or mice have moved indoors. At least I do not have to join the mass of last minute shoppers. Enjoy your day whatever you might be doing.
Before we all collapse under our Christmas indulgences, family, friends may I wish you all a Merry Christmas. Below is one of the Christmas decorations that Mme gave me a few years back, she does not get my obsession but encourages it!
