Well that's it, I've done all the Christmas shopping now, presents and food, it is all over bar the shouting and maybe some hummus if I feel the call of Waitrose on Saturday afternoon. An unlikely event I know but it could happen.
Simon and I braved the local Tescos this evening to do the "big shop" it was surprising less grim that I had first expected although the car park was full the shop wasn't rammed we could manoeuvre around the glassy eyed shoppers who clutched bags of sprouts to their bosoms as the trolley they had been pushing started to buckle under the hundred weight of dry roasted peanuts and cheeses piled within it.
We were able to resist the worst of the temptations and have got our Christmas tree, real, in soil and about a foot high, food and drink for when we are here, a litre of Baileys for medicinal purposes but no sprouts.
FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOU-PROBLEM EDITION.
3 hours ago
Very belated congratulations - I take my eye off you for five days and you get up to wonderful and exciting things. I love the ring.
ReplyDeleteBut you must have sprouts. There is no real Christmas without sprouts.
have a fab christmas Jane and Simon!
ReplyDeleteZ - Thanks belated congratulations as just as nice. Don't worry we will have sprouts as we are having Dinner at my Mum's on Christmas day and she is sure to have them.
ReplyDeleteEm - Thanks and you too.
"...glassy eyed shoppers who clutched bags of sprouts to their bosoms as the trolley they had been pushing started to buckle under the hundred weight of dry roasted peanuts and cheeses piled within it."
ReplyDeleteThis sentence deserves some kind of award.
Magnificent.
I'm not going home this year (my first on my own here since moving to London 4 years ago) and although looking forward to some P+Q, I have to say it is a bit weird not to smell the sprouts cooking at least a week in advance.
hate the damn things myself, but there y'go...
Have a lovely Christmas