boxing day chat, cheer & venting when needed!

theunknownstuntman

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

Thankfully I didnt get chocolate as people know how hard I worked this year to loose weiht & dont tend to eat that much! Gave load of it to others though & mum loved her green & black ginger choc! luxury in a socking! Dont get stunty how turkey is too rich but you can manage chocolate :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: . Shrek is on now and had a nice snooze so a nice cup of tea now in order with some yummy tesco lebkuchen (german) bisc!! Cats are nw happy & didnt part enjoy all the mocing avout of furniture, people coming etc so now normality restored are purring happily away!
Do i today hope you & OH feel better soon - miserable to be poorly today. Thinking of those of you who feel sad & lonely as I know Christmas can be a hard time for some...dodgy hugs coming your way:grouphug:
Also thinking ofthose with children as I suspect now is grumpy time after a day of excitement!

Dunno what it is ISOM, when i eat turkey i get violently ill shortly after! Sooooooo I don't eat it!
Those hugs look well dodgy!

Penny2myName

Well my first attempt at doing the 'big' family dinner went ok, admittedly 40minutes behind schedule, and I forgot to make the stuffing....
mother and siblings seemed happy with their home made truffles and taster bottles of wine(1 each). Think they were a good investment actually, £1 each with a £2 voucher of each full size bottle, Guess what one of the presents next year to family members will be, got till end of march to purchase the wines in, and each discount voucher is separate.
My favourite present was the big woolly dressing gown I am now sat here wearing.

skint_spice

Penny2myName wrote: »

Well my first attempt at doing the 'big' family dinner went ok, admittedly 40minutes behind schedule, and I forgot to make the stuffing....

well done Penny, must have been nerve wracking doing it for the first time, my mum is a terrible cook so there's no pressure cooking for her lol!:rotfl: She did well today though but I think it was mainly due to messrs m & s.

ooo don't know which was my best pressie though, loved them all except silver bag which came with gift receipt so will be changed for similar in less mad colour!

Penny2myName

Have to admit, mum did the turkey for me yesterday, I just did the pork joint and the rest.

meerkat2007

For Christmas Day, there's only my mum and I, so we've always tended to go for a rather untraditional Christmas dinner - one year, we did a load of ready-made party nibbles in the oven, for example.

However, over the last year, I've been bitten by the cooking bug, so this year, I decided I'd have a go at cooking something more complicated from scratch. Well, complicated for me

We splurged on a piece of beef fillet from M&S, which I roasted in olive oil, a little butter, salt, black pepper and fresh thyme. I also did roast potatoes from scratch. What turned out really well, though - even though I say so myself - was the sprouts. I nicked a TV chef's recipe for sprouts done in cream with bacon lardons, and added three kinds of mushrooms to it. Absolutely incredible!

Sorry if I sound like I'm bloiwing my own trumpet - correction, I am blowing my own trumpet - but I'm just so happy with the way it all went, exactly to time, and the results were entirely edible. Not bad for someone who could burn water 12 months ago

Hope everyone's having a really good Christmas!

elantan

well i came in off the night shift had breakkie hubby got called out to work so i made dinner by myself we all ate (hubby came back in time to eat it) and now were off to bed ..i'm getting so boring the older i'm getting but i dont have the energy to do anthing else ...hope you all had a great one

penguin83

Hi everyone. Just back from my mums had a lovely if hectic day! Eaten too much as ever and I am going back for more tomorrow (for some reason dad decided he needed 2 turkey crowns so mum is cooking another chrimby dinner tomorrow!)

Attempting to try and calm the kids down and scrape them off the ceiling - not going too successfully so have given up for a minute.

I got a Terramundi pot off OH so have dug out all the coins at the bottom of my bag to start it off.

Enjoy the rest of the day everyone x x

In_Search_Of_Me

evening! How bizarre stunty that you feel ill with turkey but not chicken! Just had a lovely bath with new bubbles and watching stricktly (mums choice) & love actually in a mo which I love, despite seeing a million times! Tummy feeling a bit icky (sprouts?!!) so just sipping wine - nice bottle fo claret which cost £6 but tastes the same as my cheapie Mr T one!!! Tomorrow will be spent going to best mates to swap pressies and have hugs with my goddaughters. The 6 year old gets SO exicted about presents its hilarious!! Never known a child get that excited about them!! Also taking my garmin so that her OH can suss out how to work it & show me! Instruction manuals & dyslexia dont mix!! Hope you all continue to have a nice day...two Christmas dinners is more than I could cope with! What are people up to tomorrow? Have to laugh at all the discussion about shopping - no wonder we're all DFW's!!

postingalwaysposting

i am working tommorow ~ however its double pay so £100 for the day plus another day off :j but i do have thursday off

slowlyfading

postingalwaysposting wrote: »

ohhh sf did you get anything nice?

I got the usual bits and pieces, but my fave presents this year are a Radley umbrella from my mum and Chanel perfume from my dad!! what about you? xx