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HAHAHA. I got a somewhat more exhaustive list although there is a heavy Pokémon flavour in there.



I think by the time she got to "Transform a snacks" she was just thinking of anything she liked.

I don't think there are many people who actively dislike it. Just that it is less tasty than, say, pretty much every other meat going.

Zaphod has the right idea. Just add loads of pig.

A superb list by Ms Trousers!

Aw.

"stuff to do with wolves" and "FOOD" are my favourite. Although the "don't ask" after the paper makes me think she's going to do something terrible with it, and wants to provide you with a get-out.

Ask about the paper.

DON'T!

So in terms of Christmas Dinner is anyone doing anything different? I mean other than the standard fare "Meat of choice" or "Veg alternative" plus trimmings

Spent Christmas 1997 in Koh Samui so that was maybe the first and last time (to date) I've veered away from the normal dinner

We were considering going to a local Indian restaurant which we like, but after a recent falling out with them (no main course after two hours so we walked out) we're resorting to the usual "Sunday roast plus all the extras".

I'm going to the curry house. 30 quid a head, English and Indian menus, two choices in the starter and the main, for both English and Indian, or anything off the regular menu. Bloody good food and good value when the pubs are charging 40-50 quid for a boil-inna-bag-xmas.

At home, with just the four of us.

Christmas Eve is carol singing around The Village, taking in the Living Advent Calender*, and then I have to assemble Lehman's DIY Workbench so she can crack right on with Fixing The Things the next morning. Northern Rock is a little easier as she just eats.

Christmas Day is going to be anarchy, but have enough booze in to take the edge from Faith, Hope and Charity.

*There is an Important Subplot to this, but will be revealed in time, I might have to pop to Xmas Eve Church service.

Stuff to do with wolves

I think she is just a Wanders fan Myp!

*huge long list of presents*
*also money*

Children are brilliant.

Penultimate day at work. Really can't wait for 17:00 on Wednesday. Heading straight down to London to see an old University friend I've not seen for about a decade, then heading west on Thursday for a week. Spending New Year in a cottage with old friends, although I'm not running a quiz this year.

We're having my mum and step-dad round for dinner this year as they've just moved and don't have a proper kitchen and their house is mostly boxes at the moment.

We'll have either 2 or 4 of the kids staying for dinner this year, I expect we'll find out Christmas Eve! We make enough food to feed half the street anyway so it won't matter much. This year, we ordered a four bird roast that feeds 10-12 so we should be right! We'll also have 3 types of potatoes, a cooked ham, and then all the usual additions. We halve the sprouts and fry them up with bacon, more so for everyone else because I can eat them as they are, quite happily. It's tradition that Mr. flis does dinner, although I do the important bits, like the roast potatoes and the gravy!

It can feel like a bit of an anticlimax now the kids are older but it's also nice not to get woken at 5am Christmas morning. We have our own little Christmas before they get up, breakfast in bed, a few presents, a nice lie-in, etc... And then go get them up at about 10:30!! I love it, it's a great day, whether the kids are there or not.

We had one of those a few years ago, really nice, not bothered recently as the company I bought it from stopped shipping them fresh.

Yeah okay Malc.

Jem and I are going to be cooking a Christmas meal for my Mum, as she's been basically bedridden for the last 2-3 years and rarely gets out of her room, let alone the house.

My Dad will be in attendance also, and as he's the World's Fussiest Eater I can't decide if it's going to be dead easy to cook for him or balls-to-the-wall hard.

My wife has collected the Christmas veg. All freshly picked/dug up this morning.

I like the way you say "Jem and I" like you'll be doing anything other than keeping my wine glass topped up.

Hope everyone is all set! Hope you're not up too late... or early!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

I have an 8 year old and an 18 year old who both want stockings in their room! (Plus the 13 and 15 year olds)

So one will be up late, the other up early. Plus my wife is working nights tonight (started at 22:00, ending at 08:00) so flying solo tonight (with the 'help' of my sisters in law).

Merry Christmas, Beexers. I should probably go to bed, as the Grimlet will be up in a few hours.

Merry Christmas everyone. Have a lovely day.

7.15! Not bad!

8:10am, and I think my kids are having a lie-in

Good news: I have tickets to a Penn and Teller show!
Bad news: In London.

Today?

Merry Christmas!

Nah, not until June.

Merry Christmas everyone!

(1am bed, up at 7.15 but starting with a head cold)

Merry Christmas everyone

My son was up at 6.30am, I had made sure there was a present upstairs that Santa had "dropped"

So that gave us another 30 mins before present opening commenced downstairs!

I woke the kids up around 8:30am.

Since then... so many Lego!

We've had Sam here since Friday. I finished at lunch time and we went to see Rogue One. Since the we've watched Nerve and played king of new York and pandemic and eaten a lot of food. Joans is having a star wars themed Christmas and I have been thoroughly spoilt. I did worry what one of my gifts off Mimi was going to be though!

Food coma.

Merry Christmas BeeX and to all that dwell within its halls.

Nice t-shirt Joansy

I am at the beer stage

Same shit, different Christmas, chez Warhead. Birthday Buffet for my daughter on 24 Dec, with just a few friends around for a congenial evening. Didn't get to bed until 4.10am.

Christmas day, sis-in-law picked up in the afternoon as she comes to us for dinner, but my son also picked up his daughter this afternoon to come for dinner, then some game playing until it's time for her to go to bed and I drive my sis-in-law home again. This means I never drink anything alcoholic at Christmas, not that I'm bothered about that.

Hello all! Missed you!

I hope you're all having a fine Christmas wherever you are. I am beginning to reacquaint myself with the Internet having decided to kind of opt out of it for a while. (Excepting my blog posts and email.) Because information-superhighway 2016 was beginning to have a deleterious effect on my life, I felt it wise to step back from it a bit. Anyway, back on it now, in cautious fashion.

Christmas! I have had a jolly nice Christmas thus far, despite a mild wheezy cough imparted me by my nephew Seth, who toddled up for two delightful days. Good family cheer, delicious traditional dinner and lots of Tanglefoot. Plus I got a tasty bottle of Laphroaig, and to my joy, the Magnum Contact Sheets book, which is huge and beautiful and packed with photographs and history. Also got the Maisky Diaries, Camel Up and a nice jumper.

Hope you all had a splendid one, anyway. Nephew loved his Duplo set in his burbling way, yay!

That's the Boxing Day sales done for us, and a McDonalds breakfast. Now off to walk round Croome Park in the sun.
Hope everyone is having a nice time.

Glad to see you back! We were worried that you had been eaten by a grue on the way back from the BBQ!

Had a nice time so far but I'm just so tired. Son has now mastered the art of getting over the baby gate so there is now no stopping him anytime from 5.30am.

Think drink doesn't help, I tend to have a few most days in the week leading up to Christmas and I think that and early mornings has done me in.

Oh yes and my US Style Fridge freezer is acting up, it stopped working (first clue was 4 tubs of soft beyond saving icecream ) yesterday, the started working again.

This morning was still not good so I moved it away from the wall, its a sealed unit with no compressor on the back, so moving it should have done nothing, but its started working again. Will have to ditch all of the food in the fridge, as not taking any risks with my wife being 5 months pregnant. I did move around £50 worth of meat to the garage freezer yesterday so saved most of the valuable stuff.

Off to my brothers today so will see if the Fridge is working when we get home, otherwise is a trip to Curry's I guess.

Re: turkey; turkey can go do one. If it was that good we'd eat it more than once a year.

Turkey is well nice, fewl.

Better if Bernard Matthews stuffs it with garlic sauce, though.

That beef looks like it needed another half an hour in the oven.

Depends how you like it. That's a wing rib, which means it's the same meat as a ribeye steak, which I prefer medium-rare. Which is what that is (53 deg C.)

If you order ribeye at anything past medium at most then I say good day to you sir.

I SAY GOOD DAY.

Medium-well is about the lowest down the spectrum I'll go, and even then I secretly hope they'll do it more like well-done.

I appreciate it's supposed to be borderline heresy to eat good meat cooked in that way, so I generally just don't bother.

I'm sure that meal was delicious and prepared just how you wanted it, but I seriously couldn't even get meat that pink into my mouth.