Seat68 Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 We have mash. Roasters. Parsnips. Sprouts and carrots. Pigs in blankets and stuffing. The essentials outside of turkey. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted December 25, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2021 (edited) This year’s Christmas cracker surprise. I’ve resisted the temptation to wear it. So far. I won’t retell this year’s joke, suffice to say it culminated in a reindeer/rain dear punchline. Edited December 25, 2021 by Mark Albrighton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Davkaus said: Do people have mash on a Christmas dinner? Don't mind it but there's just no room what with meat, roasters, parsnips, carrots, petit poi's, pigs in blankets and stuffing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubbs Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Davkaus said: Do people have mash on a Christmas dinner? We've just had mash instead of boiled, everyone prefers it that way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 1 minute ago, dubbs said: We've just had mash instead of boiled, everyone prefers it that way. I think I'd take the boiled potatos, and put them in the **** bin 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Bought my lad a Nintendo switch. Low an behold there server has been down all day so cannot download games, Christmas day, not good enough Nintendo! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted December 25, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2021 (edited) Boiled potatoes are crap at the best of times but they go against one of the main principles of Christmas, which is to get as much fat, butter, and/or alcohol into everything as possible. Edited December 25, 2021 by fightoffyour 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 25, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 25, 2021 Finally the gifting sesh is over. Everyone happy with their haul I have 8 new albums, some new PJs, a fleece and the Dave Grohl book Another hour to the food apparently, I'm bloody starving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Why I keep having turkey I’ll never know. Cracking dinner apart from the turkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 21 minutes ago, fightoffyour said: Boiled potatoes are crap at the best of times but they go against one of the main principles of Christmas, which is to get as much fat, butter, and/or alcohol into everything as possible. I prefer boiled potatoes over every other way of doing them 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted December 25, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Rugeley Villa said: I prefer boiled potatoes over every other way of doing them Do you inject the butter into the middle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Just now, fightoffyour said: Do you inject the butter into the middle? Nah, these are clean potatoes. Been clean for a few years now . 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Belly busting dinner done. Now to slob out on the sofa (and slowly drink some more beers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Kept on top of the tidying up much to the pleasure of the missus . I’ll need to Hoover the whole house before I can settle later. Sending kids up about 7.15 then we usually put an old black and white film on which the wife nods off to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 25, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Davkaus said: The hostess trolley? What the **** world do you live in? We own a hostess trolley, covered in a table cloth . It currently has the front room TV and phone on it and houses the printer and paraphernalia underneath. In truth I don't even know if it works. We also have a hostess table top warmer that we do use for big dinners which sits on the kitchen worktop. With just the four of us we didn't use it but I actually just noticed that with all the extra faffing that goes with Christmas dinner over a normal Sunday lunch the food wasn't as warm as normal than when we have 2 or 3 times the people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Salted caramel cheesecake on the way for pudding . Pate on crackers for supper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 25, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2021 29 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: Why I keep having turkey I’ll never know. Cracking dinner apart from the turkey. I actually love Turkey. I'll usually have Turkey at a Carvery over any other option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Dinner was magnificent. Turkey is very popular in this house. Washing up is done and now to chill and think about when is it polite to open the cheese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted December 25, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: Kept on top of the tidying up much to the pleasure of the missus . I’ll need to Hoover the whole house before I can settle later. Sending kids up about 7.15 then we usually put an old black and white film on which the wife nods off to. For some reason this bit jumped out first and then I saw you were talking about tidying up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 25, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2021 (edited) Well we've done. The Covid riddled lad sat at the head of the table via facetime on daughters new mac book. Mrs Sidcow had excelled with the crackers, proper deluxe ones. Only hiccup all day has been the Mac book. Mrs Sidcow bought it with bonus money and also ordered a Microsoft Office pack. Daughter (doing A level photography) needed a Mac book which I know zero about. She loaded it up but couldn't get the Microsoft on it. Mrs Sidcow has HUGE issues with technology. Literally ANYTHING she tries to do will go wrong and have her in tears. So I was spending ages faffing decided it was because she already had a Microsoft account on her HP laptop linked to her email. Set up a Yahoo mail account to try make it work, it wouldn't. Mrs Sidcow is getting in a state about it all. Finally I just noticed that she had left a tiny bit of silver over the access code she was trying to input and hey presto the letter Z suddenly turned into a 2. Then the code worked thank ****. Christmas was in the balance for half an hour! Anyway now finished and tidied so just waiting for dinner to digest so we can start thinking about when we can try eating puddings. Edited December 25, 2021 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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