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Christmas preparations
Dec. 24th, 2015 09:04 pmSpent the morning pottering around and helping out in the kitchen. After years of boiling the chestnuts, we discovered that roasting makes them much easier to peel, and consequently mater finished her usual Christmas Eve chore well ahead of her usual deadline.
The relatives arrived around lunchtime and the afternoon was spent listening to the carol service from Kings. Having retreated upstairs with a book, I ended up hearing the service twice: once on FM echoing up from the drawing room and then again, out of sync a few seconds later, floating up from the digital radio in the kitchen. Not an experience I recommend.
As per our usual tradition, I made the supper — at some point in the last twenty years, we started having a cheese fondue on Christmas Eve — before knocking off early.
The relatives arrived around lunchtime and the afternoon was spent listening to the carol service from Kings. Having retreated upstairs with a book, I ended up hearing the service twice: once on FM echoing up from the drawing room and then again, out of sync a few seconds later, floating up from the digital radio in the kitchen. Not an experience I recommend.
As per our usual tradition, I made the supper — at some point in the last twenty years, we started having a cheese fondue on Christmas Eve — before knocking off early.
