This one doesn’t quite seem my style, given my much-professed love of food. And, indeed, of food shopping, sometimes as though I am feeding a garrison rather than a family of three. (Junior Reader is eating more and more now, though, so maybe the garrison is along the right lines.) So it’s a bit strange …
Category archives: Food
A Christmas Carol: Christmas Eve
It’s finally here. The day awaited by many. The final countdown for last minute shopping. The final Advent calendar door has been opened. The stocking has been brought out. Operation Christmas is go, go, go! It’s starting to get dark. I remind myself that we have passed the winter solstice – there is a fraction …
A Christmas Carol: Christmas stockings
It’s almost Christmas Eve as I write today’s post. Almost. Almost is close enough to be able to talk about Christmas stockings, isn’t it? === Christmas Past I think the very early days of Christmas stockings were proper long socks. There is a pair of good stout navy socks that my dad had when he was …
A Christmas Carol: Christmas baking
Christmas baking is its own special category – and don’t we know it. And normally, it’s a tradition I happily participate in. This time round – the weekends got a bit overly full in December. So for once, the baking has fallen by the wayside. Part of me would like to mourn this a bit …
A Christmas Carol: pantomime
Time for another Christmassy post. Oh no it isn’t. Oh yes it is… When I started planning out subjects for this month’s posts, pantomime was one that made the list early on. Others will choose to focus their Christmas ‘must dos’ on elves on shelves (or not, depending on this year’s press about it), cookie …