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Only 6 months to Christmas folks :-D

tralla lalla lar lar lar lar lar :-D

AND A REAL SANTA IN THE GROTTO IN THE CORNER
( where Budgie when you need him) ;-) ;-)

Bah! Humbug! :-| :-| :-|

Just practising :-D :-D :-D :-D

I am sooooooo excited! This years guna be bigger n better than everrrrrr :-D

I am thinking of getting our lovely Builders
to build me a extra room just for Christmas

Yes It has to be bigger and better than every other year
with Baubles on it lol ;-) ;-)

Remember the year the tree was that big Stray
It fell on me pinning me to the floor
and the children had to run next door for Tony

Who couldn't lift it off me for laughing ;-) ;-)

Last weekend we had a family mid year Christmas, turkey with all the trimmings, Christmas pud, crackers and a small gift for everyone. It was brilliant all the fun without that panic leading up to it. :-D

Kids got to go to the beach first and play in the garden too!

Merry Christmas everyone! :-D

Mayfield how fabulous :-D :-D

right, that's it - I'm reporting this thread as being obscene in the extreme :-D :-D :-D

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This has got to stop.....same every year :-0 :-0 :-0

I love that idea Mayfield!!!!! :-D :-D :-D

Writes it down in my To Do List :-D :-D :-D

I'll tell you what I'd like, what I'd really really like .....

A WRAPPING ROOM for Christmas please.

Saw this on one of the million million American homes show on telly once (can't remember the show's proper name) and it was love at first sight <3 <3 <3

To have the rest of the house tidy and to have a room with shelves full of paper, ribbons, gift bags, sticky tape and all the paraphernalia that goes with them, with a long table for wrapping must be bliss. :-D <3 :-D <3

Brexit means no Turkey. now.
:-D

Kense
My family brought the first Turkey to England
and presented it to the Tudor court
There will always be Turkey

Mind i did Go to Sunderland today
and met some mighty fine Turkeys Today ;-) ;-)

It's gone past the summer solstice so you should have your sprouts on now.

Christmas cake can be started as you have to feed it with a favourite spirit. It needs at least a weekly shot and must be more than 20 shots to make it moist enough, we don't want a dry cake.

Puddings can be made and fruits soaked with alcohol for at least 24 hrs.

This is the way to have a happy Christmas.

OH's brandy is my spirit of choice. :-D

Pat, it's almost two years since I made a Christmas cake and about a month before Christmas I handed it to a relative to slice in memory of a special and much-loved relative.

Began to make another then discovered that, instead of brandy. I had picked up the Tia Maria. Having not heard any complaint about the original, I rang and had to wring out of the rellie how they had all had one mouthful and couldn't eat it. :-0

Last year I bought one. :-D

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A very exotic cake, sounds nice, perhaps they should have had a coffee with the cake :-D

I am not one of the world's natural bakers. :-D

But at least you try hun :-D :-D

That's exactly what OH says - I am a trier .... Oops, make that trial. ;-) :-S

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