I Dropped The Turkey,did You Have Worse

fay144

My oven broke! OH put the turkey in, and the oven was fine then went back an hour later, and it was cold.

It's such a soap opera cliche that I had to laugh. I chopped a couple of bits off the turkey and just grilled everything, so turned out ok. It probably wouldn't have seemed so funny if we'd been cooking for more than just the two of us though!

jopsey

it's been fun and games in our house

3.00pm Christmas eve the central heating went bang!it's a huge house and freezing so i thought I would get an elc fire we just use for show and plug it in for some heat ..bad mistake fused all the fairy lights I had spent hours decorating the house with
(thankfully DP managed to fix them see men do have there use )

4.00pm as we live in an old vicarage I thought I should take DS to the the christingle service another bad mistake ,all was well at first the church was packed to the rafters the vicar came over and was saying how pleased he was to see us ect, the service began the first hymm was sung ,which was lovely but when they stopped at the top of his voice with no holding back ds was shouting AGAIN, AGAIN all through the service I gave up after 20 min's

It went from bad to worse , Mum has been really poorly managed to get doc out today
DP forgot to put turkey in and ended up eating at 8.30 pm but only after DP realising he had cooked turkey upside down (!!!!!!)maybe the empty bottles of red wine had someting to do with it

Having a unexpected house guest after SS's friend having a fall out with his mum
lot's more but don't want to bore you all anymore ,got to giggle if not I would cry

Crazychik

:rotfl: Not this yr, everything went well - but in a previous yr, I had just served the meat on the plate (phone rings) after 10 min chat, came back to find the cat on the side, eating the meat from the plate, I shoved him away, re-arranged the meat, put mashed potato over the chewed bits, and served it to my EX with a huge grin! :rotfl:

Lillibet_2

Only a self induced problem, I was ...ahem.....a tad merry & forgot to serve pudding & went straight to the washing up:o Fortuantely both hubby & Mum were also plastered & didn't noitice only my dad did & he doesn't eat pudding so just helped himself to cheese & biscuits:rolleyes:. All was later recitifed when I found the pudding chilling in the conservatory during the drying up. Oh, and due to excess champange our Christmas lunch conversation covered everything from who was the most decorated serviceman during world war 7 to rampant rabits:o:D:rotfl:

brindles01

Thanks everyone for your stories of Christmas 'B@lls ups' they are great fun to read - not fun at the time for all you poor people suffering them though. There was only me, OH and DS (6) and it was a lovely day. We did not put in too many expectations, cooked the lunch as if it was a normal Sunday Lunch, everything went like clockwork and we come out the other side of it with our nerves intact.

katiepoppycat

i forgot the crackers which i do every year. I've had the same box for four years now. My mum is a genius cook but turkey fills her with terror. One year at about 2300 on Christmas eve she was bemoaning the fact that she would have to get up at some ungodly hour to put the turkey on. Cue a slightly sozzled dad asserting that she'd got a fancy oven with a timer and he would set it for her. We got up Christmas Day to delicious smells filling the air. . . really delicious smells filling the air. He hadn't set the timer, just switched the oven on. At 0830, the turkey was cooked to perfection. Just cooked through, perfectly moist, crunchy bacon lattice, everything. We spent all day savaging it and eating turkey butties so it turned out really well!

Lucie_2

No great disasters here (apart from a goose that wasn't a goose!), but my Mum managed to tear her shoulder muscle in bed on Christmas morning, and then had to spend a couple of hours in casualty. She still managed to cook a full Christmas dinner though - good on her!

powie69

A person I know, told me today that on Xmas Eve their toilet was blocked. They called out different plumbers to no avail. On Xmas day, just before dinner was being served a company with a pressure rod came to flush their plumbing system from outside. All of a sudden, there was this noise, and a river of brown stuff was running down the stairs from the upstairs bathroom. They had to evacuate the house, with their young children. And the mess is still being cleared up today.

Emmylou_2

Nothing too major, although as I was mugged last Thursday (they didn't get anything) I wasn't really in the mood, and my best mate (who I share a house with) had a huge abcess in her mouth so was on antibiotics. We had the whole works (including a 9lb turkey - we were supposed to have guests who pulled out at the last minute). Nearly forgot the sprouts (thank heavens for microwaves!) and were almost finishing dinner when I realised the stuffing balls were still sitting in the (turned off) oven.

Beats the time (must be 10 years ago) when I went to the ex's parent's for Christmas dinner. His mum got so drunk the turkey actually caught fire in the oven. We ended up just having vegetables!

LJD1_2

Well we still can't find the chrismas pudding. I know my mum bought it round on Christmas Eve, it was seen before breakfast on Christmas Day but no sight of it since???? I'll probably find it in a safe place in a few months time!