Good morning Saturday

[cruiser2]

Good afternoon.
It is cold. Blue sky and frosty this morning but there are now grey clouds and the frost has disappeared. Some food shopping this morning. Now pottering and some packing.
Have written and posted our Christmas cards apart from those we will hand deliver locally.
Daughter and SIL are coming this afternoon

[saundra]

afternoon everybody
iv been to morrissons it was heaving
brought a poinsetta for £1,50 plant of the week it will probably die before xmas
a lovely pork joint when J comes sometime at xmas
hes just been away for 3 weeks
doing a store so hopefully i will speak to him this weekend
also got some stuff for when the tribe all arrive boxing day
i hate doing a buffet
its far easier cooking a meal i think
well as you are all busy going here /and there i hope everybodys plans work out as planned
di have a brill few days in london
by for now

[Osc]

Got the keys to the rented apartment today and it's going to be fine Bright, modern and well equipped, we will perfectly happy there for six weeks. We'll move a lot of stuff in tomorrow and move in fully on Monday. It will be weird to have to drive to Howth but we can see it in the distance from the window

[jenniren]

[Kaz]

Oh that's good news Osc

Saundra I feel the same about buffets

It was f-f-freezing out there today After visiting D we trailed all over the retail park at St Oswald's (near the city) looking for decorative glass beads for the poppy vase, and some spring bulbs (I'm a bit late planting this year ) with no luck whatsover!! Came home, put my feet up in the warm with a nice cuppa, logged into Amazon and five minutes later had ordered everything I needed I should have thought of that in the first place................

[Diflower]

Lol Kaz yes it's all very well shops complaining about us online shopping but honestly living here we have very little choice - and if even you have to resort to it, where you have a good choice of shops, no wonder
We do use local shops as much as we possibly can though

Saundra if you hate doing buffets, why do it?!
Why not a big pot of casserole, jacket potatoes and a dish of carrots and peas?
Or a nice gammon joint, jacket or boiled potatoes, and a bowl each of salad and coleslaw? xx

Glad you're pleased with it Osc, fingers crossed all will now go to (revised) plan xx

[tonicha]

Boxing Day, years ago, in Sodbury, was a buffet.

We had Grumpy and me, his parents, his three boys, Julia, then the boys girl-friends and then other friends would turn up too

I used to put a trestle table out, with decs on it and I'd do a chilli or soemthing like that, rice and nibbles.

A lovely afternoon, with booze and without booze.

it is still remembered, after almost 30 years that Barty - not being used to old-fashioned pull-chains in the loo - managed to yank the whole lot off the wall.

On Boxing Day

He was found - doing that - on the landing floor

[saundra]

I do a buffet because after there respected Xmas dinner no body wants to eat boxing day
Well that's the plan
But although I do a piece of Gannon oven chips sausages rolls pickles cheese and pulled pork crisp and sausages And desserts and everyone enjoys it
I find its a hassle I'm a roast dinner and dessert kind of person really

[Diflower]

Lol yes it's amazing isn't it, how many people say they won't eat for a week after Christmas dinner - and then eat enough for a week the next day
I hate feeling too stuffed so just eat enough for half a week

[tonicha]