A big Boxing Day lunch
Dec. 26th, 2013 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylA big Boxing Day event with my uncle, granny, my sister's family, and S&D over from Birmingham — 12 of us in total and enough to make it worth extending the dining room table with the one from the kitchen.
We had baked potatoes, bread sauce, and cold cuts for those who were interested — all traditional staples — plus the radical new addition of a lentil salad.
The afternoon was pleasant, although pater insisted on talking us through a large number of photos taken on his recent trip to Kyoto. While many of them were very good, I couldn't help thinking that they might not have benefitted from a little more editing and curation — there are only so many times you can see pictures of the imperial palace gardens before a certain weariness sets in!
After the visitors had left, mater and I went for a walk in the park leaving the less energetic at home to look after themselves for a while. We got home and cobbled together a supper of left-overs bulked out with canapés.
We had baked potatoes, bread sauce, and cold cuts for those who were interested — all traditional staples — plus the radical new addition of a lentil salad.
The afternoon was pleasant, although pater insisted on talking us through a large number of photos taken on his recent trip to Kyoto. While many of them were very good, I couldn't help thinking that they might not have benefitted from a little more editing and curation — there are only so many times you can see pictures of the imperial palace gardens before a certain weariness sets in!
After the visitors had left, mater and I went for a walk in the park leaving the less energetic at home to look after themselves for a while. We got home and cobbled together a supper of left-overs bulked out with canapés.
