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The cheese to be eaten with Christmas Cake has to be Wensleydale and the entire 'snack' accompanied by a decent single malt whisky

JoyL

The fried Christmas cake with cream sounds good!

My sis-i-l used to serve it for breakfast though ... I can't remember whether she served it with eggs and bacon though!!

I have to admit to ...............

We send wall calendars to some folks overseas ............ 3 large ones and about 6 smaller ones.

OH also gets catalogues from a discount book store, and they start selling calendars about August at massive discount.

We have already bought the 3 large ones (plus 2 that OH bought for himself) and 2 smaller ones.

Yesterday, I put in an online order for some books from one of the big book stores and saw they were offering 25% off calendars. So i bought 4 small wall ones and also OH's pocket diary that he likes :-)


Joy .......... we don't get any cheaper postal rates for mailing early so we don't bother with getting Christmas cards early. The last couple of years, we haven't even bothered with cards, we've just sent out a letter ....... if people don't like it, hard lines!!

The major reason for no early mailing rates for cards is basically because nothing now goes sea mail ................. when folk in England use the early rate, we get the cards before the end of October :-D

Canada Post seems to have faced this fact, and did away with the cheaper rate almost 20 years ago.

They do suggest mailing dates for cards and parcels to various places when they will practically guarantee delivery before Christmas ........... and we ignore those dates as well. Most folk obey the dates, which means that cards and parcels peak about 10 days before Christmas, and delivery can slow. After the delivery date can be just as fast as normal

Sylvia, it may not be long before our cheaper surface rates are abolished, I fear.

This morning, after breakfast, I was full of good intentions. I thought I would sit and write the few notes I include with several of the overseas cards.

First, I made myself another coffee, then made contact with daughter, then granddaughter, then decided it would be better to get showered and dressed so I was decent to face the world. Came back into kitchen, made myself another coffee, looked at the cards and ..... decided to come onto GR instead.

The spirit is willing but ..... you know the scenario ...

..... and I always love and enjoy Christmas. <3 :-D

OH has just suggested that he thinks he will stay home one day a week, because we have so many "little" things that keep being put off ............. he's been retired 13 years but still has an office and goes in 5 days a week for several hours.

Among the things??

writing the Christmas letter :-( :-D