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curiouswombatFirstly a big thank you for cards and the LJ gifts to brighten up my info page.
I don't expect many people have been waiting with baited breath for a picture of this year's Christmas Cake - but if you have been, it is under the cut! Along with a couple of snow pictures and the cat caught out playing when he didn't think anyone would notice...
On Tuesday over 4 days after the snow fell, I took D-d across the island to her dentist's appointment. The main road was clear, and it was pretty uneventful. We had a lovely lunch together at the pub near the dental surgery (venison casserole... chicken cobbler... yum!) and then I pottered whilst she had her bothersome tooth sorted out.
These two pictures were taken before and after our lunch, from the grounds of the pub -
I'm pretty sure if we went that way again today - almost a week since the first snowfall, it would still look the same - the temperature has hardly crawled above freezing since.
Back in the house, now that D-d was home, we got on with the decorating - I have some new angel lights for the mantelpiece, to go with the other angels, which I put up before she arrived to make the place a little festive -
I hadn't got many of the other bits out of the shed before she got home, or for the first day after - hoping the snow might clear... But, on Tuesday, after the trip over to Peel, we cleared the snow out of the way and got out tinsel, the tree and so on.
Someone, who was sleeping in his bed and treating the whole thing with disdain, apparently, got caught in the act when we came back into the living room -
Attempts were made to restrain him -
But in the end she gave up and threw his toy back into the tinsel for him -
I seem to have not taken a picture of the tree - but it has all the collected glass and gold decorations - here is a foil angel -
(Sekrit note to Kortirion - double macro and 'N' setting!)
Of course, as friends who have been around for a while will know, one of the jobs D-d and I always do when she gets home for Christmas is to decorate the rich fruit cake that we made in October. This year's them is -
STARS!
Here is a close up -
The tiny ones are the silver version of the edible stars I put onto those cupcakes a couple of weeks ago. I think they might crop up for a long time to come as a little really do go a long way!
So - the Christmas baking has, in part, followed the same theme -
Even the gingerbread, in the back of that shot has -
more stars!
So - now, I have still got presents to wrap, and other bits and bobs to do, but first D-d and I are going to head north, do Mum's shopping, eat tea with her and then go to the evening candle-lit service at her little parish church.
I'll probably be around over sometime over the next day or two but I think it is the right time to wish you all-
(That's Happy Christmas in Manx!)
I don't expect many people have been waiting with baited breath for a picture of this year's Christmas Cake - but if you have been, it is under the cut! Along with a couple of snow pictures and the cat caught out playing when he didn't think anyone would notice...
On Tuesday over 4 days after the snow fell, I took D-d across the island to her dentist's appointment. The main road was clear, and it was pretty uneventful. We had a lovely lunch together at the pub near the dental surgery (venison casserole... chicken cobbler... yum!) and then I pottered whilst she had her bothersome tooth sorted out.
These two pictures were taken before and after our lunch, from the grounds of the pub -
I'm pretty sure if we went that way again today - almost a week since the first snowfall, it would still look the same - the temperature has hardly crawled above freezing since.
Back in the house, now that D-d was home, we got on with the decorating - I have some new angel lights for the mantelpiece, to go with the other angels, which I put up before she arrived to make the place a little festive -
I hadn't got many of the other bits out of the shed before she got home, or for the first day after - hoping the snow might clear... But, on Tuesday, after the trip over to Peel, we cleared the snow out of the way and got out tinsel, the tree and so on.
Someone, who was sleeping in his bed and treating the whole thing with disdain, apparently, got caught in the act when we came back into the living room -
Attempts were made to restrain him -
But in the end she gave up and threw his toy back into the tinsel for him -
I seem to have not taken a picture of the tree - but it has all the collected glass and gold decorations - here is a foil angel -
(Sekrit note to Kortirion - double macro and 'N' setting!)
Of course, as friends who have been around for a while will know, one of the jobs D-d and I always do when she gets home for Christmas is to decorate the rich fruit cake that we made in October. This year's them is -
STARS!
Here is a close up -
The tiny ones are the silver version of the edible stars I put onto those cupcakes a couple of weeks ago. I think they might crop up for a long time to come as a little really do go a long way!
So - the Christmas baking has, in part, followed the same theme -
Even the gingerbread, in the back of that shot has -
more stars!
So - now, I have still got presents to wrap, and other bits and bobs to do, but first D-d and I are going to head north, do Mum's shopping, eat tea with her and then go to the evening candle-lit service at her little parish church.
I'll probably be around over sometime over the next day or two but I think it is the right time to wish you all-
(That's Happy Christmas in Manx!)
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Date: 24/12/2010 02:07 pm (UTC)The cake is stunning. I hope it tastes as good as it looks.
And I hope you all have a lovely Christmas.
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Date: 24/12/2010 09:16 pm (UTC)The icing of the cake is one of those mother and daughter things we have done together for a long time - and every year there is some discussion about what it will look like... this year was mainly my idea. It should taste good - it smelt good.
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Date: 24/12/2010 02:33 pm (UTC)Another beautiful cake and other nummy treats, all very festive.
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Date: 24/12/2010 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 24/12/2010 02:57 pm (UTC)*holiday hugs and scritches for the impish kitty*
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Date: 24/12/2010 10:00 pm (UTC)We have a lot of Christmas angels collected over the years - the angels and the glass ornaments 'say' Christmas to us now.
The cat does rather like tinsel...
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Date: 24/12/2010 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 24/12/2010 10:05 pm (UTC)The Christmas cake decorating is a bit of a tradition - I did it with my Mum when I was little, D-d began to do it with me when she was little, and we've just kept going!
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Date: 24/12/2010 10:44 pm (UTC)I will get Dougal on the case.....
By the way the Tea Bread has had a slug of Cointreau - I'll let you know how it works out.
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Date: 25/12/2010 12:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 24/12/2010 04:29 pm (UTC)What a lovely cake.
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Date: 24/12/2010 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 24/12/2010 05:01 pm (UTC)A wonderful Happy Xmas to you and yours.
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Date: 24/12/2010 11:43 pm (UTC)Have a good mid-winter.
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Date: 24/12/2010 05:15 pm (UTC)Merry Christmas!
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Date: 24/12/2010 05:24 pm (UTC)Those desserts look yummy! I love the sky in the second snow pic.
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Date: 24/12/2010 11:47 pm (UTC)Happy Christmas to you and yours, too!
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Date: 24/12/2010 06:43 pm (UTC)Merry Christmas!
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Date: 24/12/2010 11:49 pm (UTC)Have a lovely, peaceful, time with Ellen.
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Date: 24/12/2010 06:57 pm (UTC)BTW, if you would like a banner for one of your fics (as a Christmas pressie) just let me know which one (and if it involves Rumil or the Els, you may want to point me towards appropriate pics).
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Date: 24/12/2010 11:50 pm (UTC)The edible stars are really useful - everything looks so decorative with very little effort!
Have a lovely Christmas.
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Date: 24/12/2010 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 24/12/2010 06:59 pm (UTC)Merry Christmas!
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Date: 24/12/2010 09:07 pm (UTC)Oh, feel free - she can have a bottle of wine from the background throw in too!
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Date: 25/12/2010 12:03 am (UTC)Have a lovely Christmas, all of you.
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Date: 25/12/2010 12:07 am (UTC)Have a lovely Christmas yourselves.
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Date: 24/12/2010 10:27 pm (UTC)Merry Christmas to you, Paul and Kat and Shaka too!
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Date: 25/12/2010 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 25/12/2010 02:54 am (UTC)It goes Auto[red camera icon] : SR Auto : SP =portrait : Panoramic : Movie : C =custom : M =manual : A =aperture priority : S =shutter priority : P = automatic mode with programmed setting - as I said... I MUST get that manual out!
And "Merry Christmas" btw *G*
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Date: 25/12/2010 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 25/12/2010 03:33 am (UTC)Psst -- Bebe LOVED her gift, and will be sending you a thank-you like a nicely brought-up young lady.
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Date: 25/12/2010 05:41 pm (UTC)I'm glad she liked it - I put a matching one in D-d's stocking, and she likes it too - we both have the weather for woollies at the moment!
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Date: 25/12/2010 06:11 am (UTC)I see you had a most glorious Christmas Eve.
Feliz Natal. That's Merry Christmas in Portuguese.
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