The extreme weather has frozen one of my timers for the outside Christmas lights. 
Christmas 2022
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The warm weather has ripened the raspberries after the rain a couple of days ago...
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Sitting here shivering I feel quite envious I must say
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I always used to look forward to our Christmas day lunches when we were camping over Christmas and New Year. Most years we would be dug into a snow drift. Lunch would be a lump of homemade Christmas cake with a slab of Wensleydale cheese on it, in one hand and a mug of hot black coffee in the other. Those are our overriding memories of Christmas day.
Here we'll have to spend most of the day with all windows, doors and heat resistant blinds closed and the lights on to avoid most of the heat & UV. No natural light because the UV is due to be 'extreme' which is 12-15 zone. The UK is on the same scale but theirs stops at 8. They don't need numbers 9-15 because they don't get that level of UV. UV 15 is less than 5 minutes in the sun before you're damaging your skin. Factor 50 isn't much use at UV 15.
I'd much prefer cold over this.
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Christmas eve has dawned. Not sure whether to post pics of my Christmas food here, or in thr normal 'what did you cook?' Thread. What does the team think?
Anyway, a nice light brushetta for breakfast.
Anyway, a nice light brushetta for breakfast.
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So Santa sets off in a couple of hours, starting in the South Pacific.
Fortunately our friends at NORAD take the day off from looking out for incoming nuclear missiles and use their sneaky-beaky top secret satellites to track him on his journey. Enjoy.
Official NORAD Santa Tracker
Fortunately our friends at NORAD take the day off from looking out for incoming nuclear missiles and use their sneaky-beaky top secret satellites to track him on his journey. Enjoy.
Official NORAD Santa Tracker
Lullabelle
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As promised, the finished cake 'Londoner', it came out pretty good, I enjoy it. The original ones look way prettier, and thinner, but...let us enjoy what we can.
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Hotdogs for lunch - very festive.
Lullabelle
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Santa is on his way 
Lullabelle
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In our Christmas box were 2 mince pies, TVC had his with cream, I tried mine neat. Great pastry and plenty of filling but it just isn't to my taste.
Dunno about the mince pie but if that is a mug of tea it has my 100% approval. Just the right shade of 'builder's brown'.
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That is how we both like our tea.
