Christmas 2024

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

A bit late going up this year.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Think I’m going to do this one. Not on Christmas Day but I want to try it for certain!
Chicken breast, Parma ham sausagemeat, cranberry sauce, breadcrumbs, winter herbs all wrapped up in puff pastry.

Christmas dinner wellington

 

[Lullabelle]

I send none.
Never enjoyed them, always found them an absolute bind!
Glad when they were flagged as environmentally unfriendly, shamefully not for the sake of the environment but more that I had a legitimate reason to no longer send any

I like to give to close family and friends as it is more personal than a Facebook message.

 

[Lullabelle]

Someone round here is very clever.

 

[TastyReuben]

Well, I guess I’ll just cancel my trip to England now:

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Someone round here is very clever.


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I’ve seen quite a few now.
Nice thing to do I think

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Aah that explains it - the yarn bombers are attempting a world record this Christmas!

St Albans knitters attempt first post box topper record

 

[Lullabelle]

I’ve seen quite a few now.
Nice thing to do I think

The weather we are having at the moment, I Hope it survives.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

The weather we are having at the moment, I Hope it survives.

Crocheted by Britains finest, it will be there in a hundred years

 

[TastyReuben]

We were at our favorite Christmas store’s other location today. They sell a lot of Inge-Glas ornaments from Germany, and they have a line of ornaments for just about anything you can imagine - food, drink, storybook characters, sports, Santas, cars, musical items, dragons, birds, other animals…you name it, they probably have it.

The one I look forward to every year, though, is their “naughty” tree:

 

[Morning Glory]

We were at our favorite Christmas store’s other location today. They sell a lot of Inge-Glas ornaments from Germany, and they have a line of ornaments for just about anything you can imagine - food, drink, storybook characters, sports, Santas, cars, musical items, dragons, birds, other animals…you name it, they probably have it.

The one I look forward to every year, though, is their “naughty” tree:

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The 'naughty' seems to be rather sexist apart from one male torso with posing pouch, but there are many items there which don't look obviously naughty... like the bears? Maybe I am missing something.

 

[TastyReuben]

The 'naughty' seems to be rather sexist apart from one male torso with posing pouch, but there are many items there which don't look obviously naughty... like the bears? Maybe I am missing something.

There are other male (and female) figures on the other side, they’re somewhat paired, like sets (it seems to me, anyway). I particularly enjoy seeing some of the parents shield their kids’ eyes as they walk past and stare.

The bears are a second tree, just past the naughty one.

 

[Lullabelle]

We have our 1st card

 

[TastyReuben]

For the first time ever, I had to go and research the meaning of an annual John Lewis Christmas advert.

Here it is:

View: https://youtu.be/55ghIHTaRzM

 

[Lullabelle]