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Dec. 23rd, 2007 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I forgot to have the G&T but I feel much better anyway.
Doing the flowers was indeed very soothing.
I had a bit of an accident with the brandy butter in which I put my finger into the blades of a wand mixer to extract the final bit of brandy butter and then accidentally turned it on.
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! And lots of blood. I had to have quite a long rest waiting for the blood to stop before I could put on a plaster and ice the cake. Pink icing is quite attractive, but still......................
There's a horrid bruise on my finger and I suspect I shall lose the nail, but when I did it, I fully expected to find myself with a very badly chewed up finger indeed. Thank God I didn't have to spend the afternoon in A&E!
I must make a mental note to turn the blummin' thing off before I do that again!
I've made the brandy butter, iced the cake. I only made it look snowy as I plan an almond paste poinsettia for the centre. I did one once before and it looks pretty good.
I've arranged the flowers for the dining room and the sitting room, put the beef in the oven, put the gammon in to soak overnight, put the split peas for the pease pudden in to soak, taken the goose out of the freezer and written a shopping list for the final bits & pieces of vegetables and perishables John and Charles are to get from Morrison's tomorrow morning.
Now I need to go downstairs, cook the potatoes and vegetables, make the gravy and rest the beef. We'll have to have ice-cream for pudding as we have nothing else, unless they want stollen cake.
The cats are going mad with all the meaty smells throughout the house and Morgan has had to be banned from the sitting room unless he's supervised as he will not stop drinking the flower water and has already got water all over the polished chest of drawers. I don't suppose it's poisonous, but I put that flower food stuff in the water, so I'm not sure whether he would be ill if he drank much of it it.
I'm told that Scrooged will not be on TV this Christmas. I fewl like having a strop, but I won't. I wonder if Blockbusters has it in stock.................
Doing the flowers was indeed very soothing.
I had a bit of an accident with the brandy butter in which I put my finger into the blades of a wand mixer to extract the final bit of brandy butter and then accidentally turned it on.
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! And lots of blood. I had to have quite a long rest waiting for the blood to stop before I could put on a plaster and ice the cake. Pink icing is quite attractive, but still......................
There's a horrid bruise on my finger and I suspect I shall lose the nail, but when I did it, I fully expected to find myself with a very badly chewed up finger indeed. Thank God I didn't have to spend the afternoon in A&E!
I must make a mental note to turn the blummin' thing off before I do that again!
I've made the brandy butter, iced the cake. I only made it look snowy as I plan an almond paste poinsettia for the centre. I did one once before and it looks pretty good.
I've arranged the flowers for the dining room and the sitting room, put the beef in the oven, put the gammon in to soak overnight, put the split peas for the pease pudden in to soak, taken the goose out of the freezer and written a shopping list for the final bits & pieces of vegetables and perishables John and Charles are to get from Morrison's tomorrow morning.
Now I need to go downstairs, cook the potatoes and vegetables, make the gravy and rest the beef. We'll have to have ice-cream for pudding as we have nothing else, unless they want stollen cake.
The cats are going mad with all the meaty smells throughout the house and Morgan has had to be banned from the sitting room unless he's supervised as he will not stop drinking the flower water and has already got water all over the polished chest of drawers. I don't suppose it's poisonous, but I put that flower food stuff in the water, so I'm not sure whether he would be ill if he drank much of it it.
I'm told that Scrooged will not be on TV this Christmas. I fewl like having a strop, but I won't. I wonder if Blockbusters has it in stock.................