tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post7770720449995738795..comments2024-02-27T10:50:27.922+00:00Comments on Books, Mud and Compost. And Horses.: ChristmasJane Badgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-14467739253252202322011-12-24T10:16:10.460+00:002011-12-24T10:16:10.460+00:00Merry Christmas to all of you too!Merry Christmas to all of you too!Jane Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-20401143884766713052011-12-24T01:45:44.006+00:002011-12-24T01:45:44.006+00:00Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your...Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!Valhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03003915263556622215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-8429342132430589052011-12-20T13:27:05.483+00:002011-12-20T13:27:05.483+00:00Thank you Charlie!
Madwippit - I shall remember t...Thank you Charlie!<br /><br />Madwippit - I shall remember that tip. It is just us on Christmas Day, and no one has a yen for Christmas pudding (or in fact any pudding at all, it would seem). I wonder if the slow oven of the Aga would do the same thing? Cook puddings I mean, not decide whether or not it wants them.<br /><br />Janet - serious respect to the labrador who punctured food tins. Ours doesn't get tinned food, but she and a labrador mate we were looking after broke into the kibble bin. That was an interesting experience for all of us, particularly the aftermath. A labrador can be over-full.Jane Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-23556588020509007132011-12-19T09:22:28.417+00:002011-12-19T09:22:28.417+00:00Disappointed you don't store your shoes in the...Disappointed you don't store your shoes in the middle of the floor - thought for a minute there I wasn't the only one.<br />I knew a lab who actually punctured and sucked out dog food from the unopened cans if she could get hold of them. Another made short work of an entire cake one Easter when backs were turned during an unguarded moment. Didn't even sick it up again. Respect!Janet Risingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-86905137860499240172011-12-16T21:50:35.517+00:002011-12-16T21:50:35.517+00:00Homemade mincemeat - lovely! For years Christmas d...Homemade mincemeat - lovely! For years Christmas day was blighted by the endless boiling-and-checking-it-hasn't-boiled-dry of my MiL's Xmas pud. Tasted lovely, but what a faff. Then I discovered you can cook the beasts in a slow cooker. So much easier on Christmas Day and it's not hogging a much needed spot on the hob ... And it was actually really good fun to make (although possibly part of that was the sheer relief at escaping the endless boiling process)<br />Enjoy your pies!madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-70700151148100332892011-12-16T12:49:42.025+00:002011-12-16T12:49:42.025+00:00Lovely dogs :-)
All blogs are enhanced by picture...Lovely dogs :-)<br /><br />All blogs are enhanced by pictures of pets!Charliehttp://screenfulofwords.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-74818561740371674502011-12-15T17:05:01.788+00:002011-12-15T17:05:01.788+00:00Because you are chanelling minimalist Christina, t...Because you are chanelling minimalist Christina, that's why. You are letting the materialist, excessive tide of Christmas pass you by, diverted by the minimalist bulwark that is your tree.<br /><br />MmeLindor, yes, you are right. The sprocker almost has the edge on the labrador. Lettuce, salad stuff, tomatoes. Nut shells. Vomit (their own or someone else's). It all goes down both of them. The Sprocker has now convinced the labrador that the cooking apple windfalls she used not to bother with are delicacies.<br /><br />Afrogatlarge - excellent tip, thank you. You will now have to show me the way to some recipes that use Amaretto!Jane Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-79807859118117333782011-12-15T15:56:56.659+00:002011-12-15T15:56:56.659+00:00You should try Lidl for the Amaretto, they do a go...You should try Lidl for the Amaretto, they do a good one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-50372858147853466152011-12-15T15:48:20.506+00:002011-12-15T15:48:20.506+00:00I could not concentrate on the mincemeat, so distr...I could not concentrate on the mincemeat, so distracted was I by the dogs, "giving me the sad eye" as my daughter would say. <br /><br />We had a Springer when I was growing up and there was NOTHING she would not eat. Nothing.Lynn C Schreiberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15397301192767939627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-33226238705668277382011-12-15T15:02:25.319+00:002011-12-15T15:02:25.319+00:00What a fun post. Makes me want to get into the Chr...What a fun post. Makes me want to get into the Christmas spirit, much delayed this busy December. So far tree is standing in living room guzzling water and wondering why it has only one string of lights and 2 ornaments. Cats think it is a glorified drinking bowl, as usual.<br /><br />Love the dogs. They *will* sell their souls for the most awful scraps, won't they? My lab gratefully licked off the floor one of those stringy fibers that you pick off a banana after taking off its outer peel. Ugh.Christina Wilsdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02472802098557216513noreply@blogger.com