8:30. toast and tea. open presents.
9:15. turkey in oven. baste every 15 minutes for the next three hours.
9:30-11:30. make bread sauce and stuffing, prepare veggies, put pudding in to boil. shower, tidy, set table.
12:30. turkey out to stand. make gravy. crank up the oven for the veggies, stuffing and bread sauce. steam veggies. cut ham.
12:45. open the wine.
1pm. eat. crackers, more wine. terrible jokes.
2pm. swear you'll never eat again.
2:30. pudding. soak in rum on the plate, and then heat rum in a ladle, set on fire and pour liquid fire onto pudding. nom nom nom.
3pm. swear you'll never eat again.
4pm. chocolate santas and mince pies. pictionary, chinese checkers.
5pm. walk to the park (SLOWLY).
6pm. small nap.
7pm. turkey and stuffing sandwich.
7:30. swear you'll never eat again.
8pm. maybe one more mince pie.
8:30. It's a Wonderful Life on TV (or a Muppet Christmas Carol). Graze on nuts, chocolate santas, ham, leftover veggies. Try and learn the difference between port, muscat and tokay by having one glass of each.
11pm. Bed.
Merry Christmas, blogosphere!
2 comments:
Loved to read about your day. Sounded like one I used to have when I was young ! Happy Holidays from North Carolina USA
What a wonderful description. I only wish ours had been like that that. We had 3 Christmas dinners all up and none of them as warm and friendly sounding as your list. Frankly, I think my mother had been basting her brain every 15 minutes!
colleen
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