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Merry Christmas and what does Santa have for you

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5 hours ago, MichaelG said:

........what boaty or otherwise stuff do you hope Santa will be bringing for you?

I make a wish list on Amazon and hope close family will take notice of it. Occasionally they do. 

I  put practical stuff on there. Things I actually can put to use  ........like 2 litres of ATF 😁.

I hinted to the chief officer back in the summer about a book I would like and hope that it will appear.

I  prefer not to receive things that other people think I might like but really I have no interest in.

 

My wife makes no wish list so picking gifts for her is a challenge. I have found anything remotely domestic  is  best avoided.  Clothing seems well received and that the way I have gone this time.

 

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5 hours ago, Athy said:

Our (quite young) peach tree, though probably still not mature enough to be truly prolific, gives us two or three nice big fruits a year.

The apple trees, par contre, have gone mental - this seems to happen about every third year. We've given bagfuls away to neighbours and even to the bloke who came to service the Rayburn, but we're still eating them, making home-made apple juice and Mrs. Athy is turning out turnovers (pastries, not bridges).

 

As for Santa, I must have been good because he's bringing me two volumes of the definitive work on French minor railways 'Les Petits Trains de Jadis' (The Little Trains of Yesteryear). I already have the other three volumes.

 

So you not going to produce your own apple brandy?

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A day with family after last year's lonely Christmas. Nothing fancy planned, just us and Dave's mum and dad looking forward to a day of comforting food and enjoyable company. A few hands of cribbage and a few glasses of whisky may occur.

 

There will be sprouts of course.

 

With chestnuts.

 

Oh and stuffing. You can't have Christmas without stuffing 

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35 minutes ago, Stilllearning said:

Best to leave it to them. I once bought an expensive bottle of that Somerset stuff and it was a huge disappointment neither being subtle nor even remotely tasting of apples. 

I don't know whether the same is still true today, but in the 1980s I spent several summers working on Radio Cotentin, which served the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy. Lots of people knew someone who made their own Calva'. You'd give them an empty lemonade bottle and a fairly small amount of money, and they'd . bring  it back to the studio filled with Calvados. The odd thing was, no one admitted to distilling their own  Calva' but everyone seemed to know someone else who did. I didn't ask questions.

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37 minutes ago, Athy said:

I don't know whether the same is still true today, but in the 1980s I spent several summers working on Radio Cotentin, which served the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy. Lots of people knew someone who made their own Calva'. You'd give them an empty lemonade bottle and a fairly small amount of money, and they'd . bring  it back to the studio filled with Calvados. The odd thing was, no one admitted to distilling their own  Calva' but everyone seemed to know someone else who did. I didn't ask questions.

Certainly 10 years ago there were people in Brittany making Lambig which is applejack.

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16 hours ago, system 4-50 said:

I don't want to get anything small this year.  However, the granddaughters have been on a school outing yesterday after which 4 members of the trip started throwing up, so I may be disappointed.

Could be worse.

The rest of us are probably getting Omicron and lockdown

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On 11/12/2021 at 17:29, frangar said:

I'm hopefully getting nothing at all as its just another day as far as I'm concerned.....I really dont get all the fuss and stress people inflict on themselves.

 

 

Me neither frangar. We don't really do Xmas either but are buying each other a meal at an expensive but excellent steakhouse. In our working days we used to be able to afford to go there quite often but nowadays it has to be as a treat. It will be in January so something to look forward to after Xmas.

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8 minutes ago, Grassman said:

 

 

Me neither frangar. We don't really do Xmas either but are buying each other a meal at an expensive but excellent steakhouse. In our working days we used to be able to afford to go there quite often but nowadays it has to be as a treat. It will be in January so something to look forward to after Xmas.

fingers crossed Boris allows it.... :)

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12 minutes ago, Tonka said:

And that is why we are in a mess.

Are we? I think people are quite happily getting on with their lives…I had to go into Leicester last week and it was the usual Christmas madness although sadly the market isn’t what it was but I think we can blame the supermarkets and their cut price poor quality produce for that….oh and my OH is sad that walkers pork pie shop has gone…and bruccani’s bakery…. 
 

But we had a lovely lunch in the Buddhist centre cafe where many others were doing the same along with a group for adults with learning difficulties who were having a great time socialising with each other…how exactly would they be helped if they were kept from seeing each other?  

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1 hour ago, frangar said:

I don’t think anyone is taking notice of him anymore and quite rightly. 

So Boris says at 8pm Sunday get a booster. The system crashes Monday morning due to the rush. Yet you think nobody is listening to him. 

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On 11/12/2021 at 12:53, tree monkey said:

Ohhh I do wish we could grow apricot peach and nectarines over here.

That's going to be an impressive fruit selection though

One of my earliest memories is of my grandfather harvesting peaches from the tree he grew in the back garden of their house in Surbiton. My grandparents moved there at the end of the war, and I think the tree wasn’t young when they bought the house, so it should be possible in England.

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