Christmas seemed to come about so quickly this year. Although the celebrations take a lot of planning and preparation, Christmas time is special and I look forward to seeing the family and catching up on all the news. There’s gifts and luscious food and Christmas carols, followed by my favourite time, the days after Christmas when we eat easy to serve leftovers and sit and enjoy the books we receive. We are a family of readers. No pressure, just relaxing times. Perfect!
This delicious dessert, a cassata including raspberries, strawberries and blueberries, was made by our son. He varies the flavours every year and it is very good.
The Christmas Wreath dessert, made by the dessert maestro, my niece. It tasted as wonderful as it looked!
Two days after the Boxing Day feast and we’re still eating ham and turkey, but serving it with very plain salads. Festive food is such a treat but eventually, only simple food appeals.
Any more ham? Turkey? Chicken will do….Louis has loved all the festive food and assumed all the visitors came to see him.
The Christmas desserts have given way to apricots, nectarines, cherries plus a few dangerous rum balls.
Hot days, cooler nights and very pretty sunsets.
No, it’s not abstract art, it’s a piece of our clothesline. It was here when we moved in, in 1996 and was the only thing left of the previous house when we demolished and rebuilt a few years later. It is on a slightly raised brick area next to a blueberry bush. Little birds love the blueberry bush and we like to watch them from indoors, darting around and seeming to peck at something on the line. When my husband pegged a heavy rug on the line a few days ago, it snapped! The plastic coating was brittle and cracked and nylon rope inside it was teased out and pulled through the cracks. The birds had been using the nylon for nesting. Now we need to replace the clothesline!
Yesterday was Visit The Zoo Day, so that’s easy enough to do, isn’t it? Sounds like fun and something we intend to do as soon as it is cooler.
