What are you doing right NOW to prepare for Christmas?

suki1964

melanzana wrote: »

Hi Suki,

Just wondered if you had seen or heard this from Donaghadee. Killard School.

OMG what a voice that girlie has.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvUMDp-snTI

Double hankies needed.

Happy Christmas.

Isn't she amazing

Don't think there's a person alive here who's not heard her now

suki1964

Well I fell asleep watching Lady in the Van so will have to catch up with it another time ( too much wine )

Up now and just prepping the turkey for the oven

Merry Christmas everyone xxx

Pollycat

We have no electricity!
Heard the central heating switch off suddenly, no lights anywhere in any of the surrounding houses.
Hope it's sorted soon.
We have an electric cooker & hob so no Christmas dinner if they don't sort it out.
Really eerie with no background hum.

Pollycat

Pollycat wrote: »

We have no electricity!
Heard the central heating switch off suddenly, no lights anywhere in any of the surrounding houses.
Hope it's sorted soon.
We have an electric cooker & hob so no Christmas dinner if they don't sort it out.
Really eerie with no background hum.

Phew!

Just come back on.
Going to make a cuppa and my breakfast, then prep veg for dinner before popping up to see my sis and her kids then when we're home, we'll put the beef in and open presents whilst watching 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

Merry Christmas everybody. :xmastree:

suki1964

Phew pollycat, close shave there

That was my fear for today but luckily Barbara seemed to skip us for the most part

Pollycat

Pollycat wrote: »

We have no electricity!
Heard the central heating switch off suddenly, no lights anywhere in any of the surrounding houses.
Hope it's sorted soon.
We have an electric cooker & hob so no Christmas dinner if they don't sort it out.
Really eerie with no background hum.

Pollycat wrote: »

Phew!

Just come back on.
Going to make a cuppa and my breakfast, then prep veg for dinner before popping up to see my sis and her kids then when we're home, we'll put the beef in and open presents whilst watching 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

Merry Christmas everybody. :xmastree:

Update to this:
we think the electricity company have been messing about with the supply over Christmas.

Our shower was cold on Christmas Day morning, we didn't think too much about this as it's getting on a bit and we just thought it was on its way out.

When we came to cook the Christmas dinner (I'm in charge of the meat and all roasties - potatoes, leek and parsnips - and yorkshire puds as we had beef, OH is in charge of the veg (which I prep) and gravy).
I'd had the meat in, then put the potatoes in for 30 minutes then added the leeks and parsnips.

Then put the puddings in. These take between 20 and 25 minutes in a hot oven (220 so I did 200 as ours is a fan oven).

Looked in the oven 15 minutes later, expecting to see the pudding well risen but nothing seemed to be happening.

At that temperature, the fat in both pans should have been spitting but it wasn't.
So we had to stall the veg and gravy.
I threw the puddings away and started again - luckily they were Aunt Bessies uncooked so didn't have to remake the batter.

20 minutes later, the oven seemed to kick back in to temperature and was working as normal.

The oven is not new so we thought it was telling us it had had enough and thought no more about it, although it was quite stressful.
Luckily, there was only the 2 of us, if we'd had a houseful I think I might have gone into meltdown.

The electricity went off again yesterday morning but only for a minute.

Yesterday evening, we used the microwave and OH said it wasn't working as well as it usually did. It's not old.

The lights in the dining room didn't seem as bright as they should have then they suddenly brightened.

And it clicked that all these random problems we'd been having could be not down to our appliances but outside the house. :mad:

Shower is hot today.