Who's ready for Christmas?
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I've wrapped all my presents, delivered all my cards and last night I bottled my Blackberry Brandy, Sloe Gin and Raspberry Vodka. So I'm ready! :-D What about the rest of you guys?
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
I'm sorted - Just went to get teh sausage meat, and a couple of bottles of wine. Turducken in the freezer. Tick! Potatoes in the ground. Tick! Sprouts grown nicely. Tick! Duck Breast Pate ready to be made for starter tomorrow. Tick! Presents wrapped. Tick! Cards delivered. Tick! Chocklates ready. Tick! Tree decorated. Tick! Then demolished by Dij. Tick. Re-decorated. Tick! Repeat until you feel like strangling the cat and eating him for Christmas dinner. Tick! Will have to go out on Christmas eve for milk and related perishables, but I'm pretty sorted.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Did the kids (mine and assorted nieces / nephews) at the end of November on a weekend when my daughter was away with my parents. Other kids all been wrapped and under tree, just have to remember where daughter's are all hidden, get them down and wrap them on Christmas Eve. Oh, and get her new bike from my mum and dad's garage and work out what to do with that. Ordered all my wife's presents from Amazon on Monday, supposedly the last guaranteed day for free delivery and they have all turned up (at my parent's house to avoid being tampered with), been wrapped, and shoved under the tree. Bought a present "To Mummy and Daddy, love from ..." to me and the wife from our daughter, did this the first Christmas she was born and ever since, goes down a treat. Tip for you new fathers out there. Bought wine for my father, and my wife's father. Assorted crap for mothers. Toblerone for my Gran, same as every year. All of the old people supplemented with a school photo of my daughter, children can be very useful for such easy presents. All that remains is a HMV voucher for the wife's stepdad that I really can't be bothered fighting my way into town for. Christmas Day round the wife's mother's. Boxing Day round her father's. Tuesday round my parent's. No need to buy any food.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
kids all been wrapped and under tree
#raises eyebrow#
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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ChrisElston wrote:
kids all been wrapped and under tree
#raises eyebrow#
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I've wrapped all my presents, delivered all my cards and last night I bottled my Blackberry Brandy, Sloe Gin and Raspberry Vodka. So I'm ready! :-D What about the rest of you guys?
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
not I - we had a disasterous year, mum's health is still 'getting there' after a stomach rebuild, another lengthy time in hospital following 4 dvt's, and a faint/fall last weekend (just a bruise/pain from that one, no long hospital stay) - although, she's back to the stage where she can talk under wet cement, so ..... Do you mix those three things together (and what proportions ?) or are they used with other mixers ? have a good one anyway Ali, we miss your sass and sparkling wit when you're not here 'g'
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not I - we had a disasterous year, mum's health is still 'getting there' after a stomach rebuild, another lengthy time in hospital following 4 dvt's, and a faint/fall last weekend (just a bruise/pain from that one, no long hospital stay) - although, she's back to the stage where she can talk under wet cement, so ..... Do you mix those three things together (and what proportions ?) or are they used with other mixers ? have a good one anyway Ali, we miss your sass and sparkling wit when you're not here 'g'
Garth J Lancaster wrote:
not I - we had a disasterous year
Sorry to hear that. I hope 2012 is better for you. :rose:
Garth J Lancaster wrote:
Do you mix those three things together (and what proportions ?) or are they used with other mixers ?
I mostly just drink them neat. The Raspberry Vodka is a new one and I think it might be nice with lemonade, I had a tiny sip last night and it tasted of lovely fresh raspberries (with a kick!).
Garth J Lancaster wrote:
we miss your sass and sparkling wit
I've never heard it called that before! ;)
Garth J Lancaster wrote:
have a good one anyway Ali
You too!
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
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What would you possibly do with a yard long tube?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Now you are just making my eyes water! :rolleyes:
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
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Now you are just making my eyes water! :rolleyes:
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
... and yet you're smiling. ;)
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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... and yet you're smiling. ;)
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
I'm always smiling! :-D
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
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I've wrapped all my presents, delivered all my cards and last night I bottled my Blackberry Brandy, Sloe Gin and Raspberry Vodka. So I'm ready! :-D What about the rest of you guys?
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
Alison P wrote:
last night I bottled my Blackberry Brandy, Sloe Gin and Raspberry Vodka.
Well that's three of your five-a-day taken care of.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I've wrapped all my presents, delivered all my cards and last night I bottled my Blackberry Brandy, Sloe Gin and Raspberry Vodka. So I'm ready! :-D What about the rest of you guys?
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
Knowing me as well as I do, I'll be ready Saturday midnight, working to deadline as usual. :-D I somewhat envy all the organized people but never been able to achieve it myself. :((
It is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. ~ Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011
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Alison P wrote:
last night I bottled my Blackberry Brandy, Sloe Gin and Raspberry Vodka.
Well that's three of your five-a-day taken care of.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
Well that's three of your five-a-day taken care of.
Yep and if I add cranberry sauce and chocolate (chocolate comes from the cocoa 'fruit' so it must count) ... that's me sorted! :-D
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
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I've wrapped all my presents, delivered all my cards and last night I bottled my Blackberry Brandy, Sloe Gin and Raspberry Vodka. So I'm ready! :-D What about the rest of you guys?
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
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I've wrapped all my presents, delivered all my cards and last night I bottled my Blackberry Brandy, Sloe Gin and Raspberry Vodka. So I'm ready! :-D What about the rest of you guys?
Ali "Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute
I guess I should hit the mall at lunch today, so sense in waiting to the last minute this year.
