And Santa's going to be coming down her chimney and filling them.Miss Goodbody usually has some splendid stocking fillers
Christmas trees, drinks, decorations and all that sort of thing
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
....here's my erection. Seems to take longer each year to get it up.........
jayonabike
Powered by caffeine & whisky
- Location
- Hertfordshire
We've had them a few years, think it was somewhere like Homebase
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
I thought I'd uploaded a photo to go with my previous post, but it didn't get posted. Here are our post-prandials and cocktail bases for the next few years.
Sloe and rowanberry gin; blackberry and rosehip vodka. Variously made with white, demerara and muscovado and home-grown and foraged fruit.
Sloe and rowanberry gin; blackberry and rosehip vodka. Variously made with white, demerara and muscovado and home-grown and foraged fruit.
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Is that a wine box?Looks a bit puggled as well!
.Still,I suppose shes a quiet drunk!
ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
Could be...though I like to think it's just a juice box as she's a good fairyIs that a wine box?Looks a bit puggled as well!
Well,all I can say is this.Dont you leave any alcohol in the same room as the tree overnight.The friendly man who is often loosely attached to the bar in the pub assures me that fairies climb down from the tree during the night and drink all the booze in the house.Well,seemingly they do in his house anyway.Could be...though I like to think it's just a juice box as she's a good fairy
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
We've put up 3 cards so far, on a bit of string. Two birthdays to celebrate in our house before we can get too festive
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
It took a couple of hours to pick all the fruit (in the case of the foraged stuff during a walk we'd have gone on anyway), then it got popped in the freezer to burst the skin. Everything was done to a standard recipe I found online - 1 litre of spirit to 500g fruit to 250g sugar. We left the blackberries to steep for about three days before straining and bottling; the other, harder, fruit, was steeping from late August and early September to this last weekend. (In case you're wondering - the sloes and blackberries came from the middle of France, where the fruit ripens earlier than it does here. The rowanberries and rosehips were from the garden.)
The most time-consuming bit of the process was washing out bottles before filling them. We simply used glass jars of various kinds for the steeping - the alcohol content effectively kills bugs, so no sterilisation required.
I reckon it's all OK to drink now. The blackberry vodka is good; the other drinks could do with a bit of maturation to allow the flavours to mingle a bit more.
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User169
Guest
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Bought a new champagne gold coloured tinselly artificial tree from John Lewis on Saturday.
#1 son is decorating it on his day off on Thursday by which time I'll be in Stockholm.
Drink was all ordered weeks ago.
#1 son is decorating it on his day off on Thursday by which time I'll be in Stockholm.
Drink was all ordered weeks ago.
OH gets ranty if we get the decorations up too early.
We have an Advent crown, so have started lighting the candles on that. And we had our chocolate Nicholases yesterday (it being Saint Nicholas' day) (well, you can't get proper Nicholases here, so we make do with chocolate Santa Clauses instead...)
We have an Advent crown, so have started lighting the candles on that. And we had our chocolate Nicholases yesterday (it being Saint Nicholas' day) (well, you can't get proper Nicholases here, so we make do with chocolate Santa Clauses instead...)
