Father Christmas
Dec. 28th, 2006 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bateleur and I attempted a three course meal for my parents and chrestomancy (who arrived on Saturday evening to join us for Xmas). It was also the day that we finished the Christmas food shopping in Tesco. Despite a fairly early start (09:30) the place was still packed out when we arrived (no parking spaces, no trolleys) and complete murder to tackle. I got bateleur to leave his cooking ingredients for the evening meal until the end and then park me with the trolley in one of the huge queues whilst he went to get those final things. Twenty minutes later he was back - and I had barely moved (although the queue shifted fairly promptly after that). However, we got it done and got out again with still some morning left.
The afternoon involved Granny Iris and the duo playing railway in the playroom whilst my dad read the paper and I finished wrapping presents. Come evening we fed the duo their tea and then packed them off safely to bed before laying the dinner table for The Meal. The first course was giant-sized vol-au-vents, in this case salmon and cream cheese in puff pastry. The second course was a meat and vegetable stew with rice (which was much nicer than it sounds) and the dessert was chocolate pots, partly because they taste wonderful and partly because they can be easily prepared earlier in the day. White wine was Sancerre - which I'd tracked down in Fortnum and Mason after we'd been given a wonderful bottle of it and red wine was a fine Rioja fromchrestomancy with gold wire netting (for some reason).
Sunday lunchtime, my parents took us all out for a meal and so we got to watch Bea tackle adult-sized portions of pizza and ice cream. The afternoon then proceeded with the Hornsey part of the family heading off to the park with Ryan, whilstbateleur stayed in with Bea. My small son seemed very pleased to have four adults to himself! The evening involved the rest of my family disappearing off to Feltham cineworld to watch Casino Royale. Back at the house, bateleur and I bathed the duo, put them to bed and then I broke out Shadow Hearts II (a birthday present that I was meaning to get into right after I finished Final Fantasy X again - and I finally did that on Thursday evening) whilst bateleur watched. Then the cinema crew returned for mulled wine and bread maker bread before we headed bedwards, with a brief pause to sort out Bea and Ryan's stockings.
bateleur and I attempted a three course meal for my parents and chrestomancy (who arrived on Saturday evening to join us for Xmas). It was also the day that we finished the Christmas food shopping in Tesco. Despite a fairly early start (09:30) the place was still packed out when we arrived (no parking spaces, no trolleys) and complete murder to tackle. I got bateleur to leave his cooking ingredients for the evening meal until the end and then park me with the trolley in one of the huge queues whilst he went to get those final things. Twenty minutes later he was back - and I had barely moved (although the queue shifted fairly promptly after that). However, we got it done and got out again with still some morning left. The afternoon involved Granny Iris and the duo playing railway in the playroom whilst my dad read the paper and I finished wrapping presents. Come evening we fed the duo their tea and then packed them off safely to bed before laying the dinner table for The Meal. The first course was giant-sized vol-au-vents, in this case salmon and cream cheese in puff pastry. The second course was a meat and vegetable stew with rice (which was much nicer than it sounds) and the dessert was chocolate pots, partly because they taste wonderful and partly because they can be easily prepared earlier in the day. White wine was Sancerre - which I'd tracked down in Fortnum and Mason after we'd been given a wonderful bottle of it and red wine was a fine Rioja from
chrestomancy with gold wire netting (for some reason).Sunday lunchtime, my parents took us all out for a meal and so we got to watch Bea tackle adult-sized portions of pizza and ice cream. The afternoon then proceeded with the Hornsey part of the family heading off to the park with Ryan, whilst
bateleur stayed in with Bea. My small son seemed very pleased to have four adults to himself! The evening involved the rest of my family disappearing off to Feltham cineworld to watch Casino Royale. Back at the house, bateleur and I bathed the duo, put them to bed and then I broke out Shadow Hearts II (a birthday present that I was meaning to get into right after I finished Final Fantasy X again - and I finally did that on Thursday evening) whilst bateleur watched. Then the cinema crew returned for mulled wine and bread maker bread before we headed bedwards, with a brief pause to sort out Bea and Ryan's stockings.
