This is how our Christmas Day unfolded.
8 am, everybody up and around the tree for the family presents.
10 am, I run Karen around to her sisters to help with the cooking and everything that needs to happen for Christmas dinner
1145 am Ryan and I head around to S-I-L’s house (a 10 minute walk. It was my M-I-L’s before she passed away and it’s where the family gathered for many years).
Midday, more presents, mostly home baking and preserves.
1 pm, Christmas dinner, roast pork, roast vegetables, new potatoes and peas. Desert is cheesecake, pavlova (a down under desert of baked sugar and egg whites filled with fresh cream and fruit) and triffle, a desert made of sponge, custard, cream and a good shot of port.
230 pm, Ryan and I head home to let the dog out and to snooze off the big meal.
430 pm I head around to a friends place for a visit. They have a few “Christmas orphans” around and are out in the garage with a full band set up jamming. I notice the strap lock on Sue’s base is looking “funny” the button screw hole has been enlarged and repaired at some stage, but has opened up again. The screw has backed out just enough to bend, and it looks like it is getting ready to give way. I dash home for the battery drill, a wooden dowel and a new screw from my box of odd ends. With the old screw hole drilled out, the dowel tapped in and the button reattached the band is playing again.
530 pm I go back to the S-I-L’s. Niece, nephew and great-niece have arrived, some talk and jokes. I cane remember (last century
) up to 20 family gathering here for Christmas evening. Now most of them have their own thing to do.
630 pm Cold meat (ham, lamb, pork and chicken) with salads (it is summer here) and more desert.
By 730 pm Karen and I arrive home. It has been a full day, and we are full of food, but a family day to treasure.
8 am, everybody up and around the tree for the family presents.
10 am, I run Karen around to her sisters to help with the cooking and everything that needs to happen for Christmas dinner
1145 am Ryan and I head around to S-I-L’s house (a 10 minute walk. It was my M-I-L’s before she passed away and it’s where the family gathered for many years).
Midday, more presents, mostly home baking and preserves.
1 pm, Christmas dinner, roast pork, roast vegetables, new potatoes and peas. Desert is cheesecake, pavlova (a down under desert of baked sugar and egg whites filled with fresh cream and fruit) and triffle, a desert made of sponge, custard, cream and a good shot of port.
230 pm, Ryan and I head home to let the dog out and to snooze off the big meal.
430 pm I head around to a friends place for a visit. They have a few “Christmas orphans” around and are out in the garage with a full band set up jamming. I notice the strap lock on Sue’s base is looking “funny” the button screw hole has been enlarged and repaired at some stage, but has opened up again. The screw has backed out just enough to bend, and it looks like it is getting ready to give way. I dash home for the battery drill, a wooden dowel and a new screw from my box of odd ends. With the old screw hole drilled out, the dowel tapped in and the button reattached the band is playing again.
530 pm I go back to the S-I-L’s. Niece, nephew and great-niece have arrived, some talk and jokes. I cane remember (last century
) up to 20 family gathering here for Christmas evening. Now most of them have their own thing to do.630 pm Cold meat (ham, lamb, pork and chicken) with salads (it is summer here) and more desert.
By 730 pm Karen and I arrive home. It has been a full day, and we are full of food, but a family day to treasure.
