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[wildmissus]

Coffeetime...thinking about you. Julie you look great, I also liked the picture of you with your turkey and extras.

I was working today so that made for an easy fast day. This evening I want to give the kitchen a good clean and make up my Christmas table. Also need to wrap daughters birthday presents for the 27th. Yes, that means a Christmas cake and a birthday cake!

Working tomorrow morning, so will strip our bed before I go to work and after lunch give the house a clean and tidy then flop on the couch with something warm and red in my hand. That sounds terribly rude! I mean a glass of red wine, of course.

The ice cream sounds delicious Penny, sure could use some right now.

It's very early Christmas Eve morning here in Melbs and as I couldn't sleep I decided to get up and start to prepare some of the Vegies whilst having my coffee.

The tomatoes are chopped for the mini bruschettas and the carrots and parsnips are peeled. Just need to chop and prepare the stuffing for the Garlic and Parmesan filled mushroom caps.

The cauli and brocc are chopped up ready to be steamed, just need to make the white sauce and top the lot with breadcrumbs.

Once back from picking up the Pork and other small perishables, will peel the potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkin.

Then just a quick whip round with the Hoover and then we are off to a 1st Birthday part later this afternoon.

I am feeling quite calm and relaxed and ready for the big day tomorrow when our family will all be coming over and I am looking forward to seeing our delightful 5 year old granddaughter.

Have a great day everybody.

cheers Maggie

Laughed out loud Wildmissus!
I'm OK, hubby very quiet (it worked!), shopping done except for a couple of things from the local shop tomorrow. Just a few pressies to wrap, a small blip when something I ordered turned out to be the wrong one, but an email complaining to the sender and another back from them and it turns out that they had put the wrong label on it - so my oldest granddaughter will get her pressie after all. Still some cleaning and tidying to do tomorrow and I'll be cooking the nut roast too, which will mean less to do on Christmas day when hopefully everything else will magically fall into place.

It's Christmas Eve in a Brisbane...I'm not working today...and thought I would sleep in...but my internal alarm clock woke me before 6am:( so time to get up and start making the Trifle for Xmas day desert...also have so Rudolph cookies to bake...and that's my cooking all done! Luckily my Sister in law has invited us for Christmas Dinner and likes to do all the cooking...I just have to bring trifle and champagne:)

Oooo. You guys down under have made me feel very Christmassy

Oooh, met a very nowty man this evening; elbowed his way to the front of the queue in a very loud way. Made me feel most un-nerved, he did.

Then, our sink has decided to fall apart, as the waste trap has come apart from the sink and water has leaked. But, thankfully, we have an all singing, all dancing contract with British Gas, who will be here between 8am and 1pm tomorrow to fix it. Cheers, British gas and Dynorod!

*TRIFLE**** I forgot to start the trifle. Well what do you expect when you get a panicked phone call from a dear daughter who can't have a pee because her Sanilav macerator stops working (toilet waste chopper-upper and pump for all the waste water in the flat).

So we drove to her place (heavy flooding everywhere) with a bucket full of tools and spare towels to mop up the mess (she's washing them tonight) where I've been dismantling a toilet and the gubbins behind it for a few hours this afternoon for her. Every plumber she talked to said they won't be able to make it till after New year, one said it would be mid january!.

My eldest helped and we got it working again (mucky job, don't ask), cleaned up and met her at work where she was very grateful. We then went on to have a workout, a swim and a relax in a Jacuzzi. before heading for Sainbury's to pick up the meat for the slow cooker meal tomorrow. Topside of beef was actually cheaper than braising steak. Sainsbury's wasn't that frantic, just a busy day. Fingers crossed that Morrisons will be as quiet tomorrow.

Oooh, met a very nowty man this evening; elbowed his way to the front of the queue in a very loud way. Made me feel most un-nerved, he did.

Then, our sink has decided to fall apart, as the waste trap has come apart from the sink and water has leaked. But, thankfully, we have an all singing, all dancing contract with British Gas, who will be here between 8am and 1pm tomorrow to fix it. Cheers, British gas and Dynorod!

...@PennyForthem it was British .gas who rescued us when the boiler went wrong yesterday - we were told between 8 - 1pm as well - came at 9.30! So make sure you're out of your jimjams early!!

Love that word nowty - don't hear it often enough! Verbal mardy!!