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This Christmas I will be.......
Hi everyone,
This time last year I asked you all to post some Xmas tips and we put some of these tips in an article and sent it to women newly diagnosed with a link to the online conversation
https://external2.createsend.com/campaigns/reports/viewCampaign.aspx?d=d&c=96F7DB74A54F2F70&ID=87D90CE98EBF5B33&temp=False&tx=0
We would like to do the same this year. I was touched last year by some of the conversations around how Christmas now had a different meaning for some of you and the decisions you made about what is important now for you at Xmas time. I therefore thought we could do something around what you'll be doing this Xmas - what is now important to you, do you now do things differently, have certain traditions, activites become more important, are there things you ve decided not to do?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
This time last year I asked you all to post some Xmas tips and we put some of these tips in an article and sent it to women newly diagnosed with a link to the online conversation
https://external2.createsend.com/campaigns/reports/viewCampaign.aspx?d=d&c=96F7DB74A54F2F70&ID=87D90CE98EBF5B33&temp=False&tx=0
We would like to do the same this year. I was touched last year by some of the conversations around how Christmas now had a different meaning for some of you and the decisions you made about what is important now for you at Xmas time. I therefore thought we could do something around what you'll be doing this Xmas - what is now important to you, do you now do things differently, have certain traditions, activites become more important, are there things you ve decided not to do?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
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- Dear @"Annie C",
What a glossy beast of a pudding! Back in the 70's my mother hung the boiled pudding from a special hook in my sister's bedroom. String broke, pudding fell down and broke my sister's guitar! - Oh @arpie
I think you need to make an appointment with the optometrist, you are blinder than me! - .... a ‘cap full of sherry’.... I misread that as “CUP full of sherry a day” @"Annie C" .... and was thinking ... WOOHOO! What a pudding!! ;) I was thinking you wouldn’t want to ‘flambe’ it! The house would go up!! Haha
- This Christmas i will be enjoying my family with no work stress. Awesome!
- This xmas I will be................partying with my crazy xmas loving family.
It's hard to believe four years ago xmas day was two weeks after my first chemo. Crazy how time flies.
The tree is up and gorgeous. Three out of four of my girls have left home and I text them all to say I was putting up the tree that afternoon and they all showed up after work to help with wine. How nice is that?
You never know how xmas day is going to go here. 2018 was so hot we packed the whole xmas lunch and our eskies on the back of the ute and found a big shady tree in the paddock for lunch. You can't get much more Aussie xmas than that!
Inevitabley it will end up with everyone getting thrown in the pool at some stage and more than likely a very rowdy game of cards to finish of the night.
Loooooveee xmas
Remember....... - Looks and sounds really delicious @"Annie C"!! 😋🥰
- Ah Christmas, I love the whole shebang. Normally there is the tree, the decorations and Christmas lights. However not this year. I think that age, weariness, fatigue and an inability to get these lungs of mine working properly has contributed.
My "Husband and I" enjoy a quiet Christmas - just the two of us. Christmas food though is much to the fore and usually we cook for twenty even though there is just we two. This year we have scaled the food down somewhat, but not the traditional Christmas Pudding which is an event in itself.
The fruit is soaked in sherry and stirred daily from the beginning of November and then the pudding is steamed for six hours in early December. Ah, this year it turned out lovely. And the best outcome, the bottom did not fall off, and did not require jamming back on in the hope that no one will notice unlike last year!
From now until Christmas Day a cap full of sherry will be lovingly poured over to marinate. Opening the back verandah fridge requires one to hold their breath to avoid being overcome by the fumes.
Now, acquiring a bottle of sherry in our Kimberley town is an art in itself, because of our alcohol restrictions fortified wines are not permitted under our Alcohol Accord". Whiskey, brandy, rum all allowed - but not sherry!
So, you sidle up to your friendly bottle shop owner muttering the password " it's Christmas Pudding Time", to which there is a reply of " I guess you are going to need one of these" and out from under the counter comes a brown paper bag containing the requisite fortified wine. Cash changes hands and you leave, innocently clutching the brown paper bag. Many a time I have been tempted to find a park bench on the way home, but the pudding requires its marinating.
On the day, said pudding will be decorated with plastic holly to look authentic and then set alight with brandy (after plastic decorations are removed, not like one year!)
I like the weeks leading up to Christmas, the build up of the wet season, the afternoon thunderstorms, the Christmas lights competition that usually is drowned out by the thunderstorms, the touring of town to view the lights competition in the rain, the quietness of the town when all the government employees leave to escape the heat and when the NGO's leave to return to their southern capital cities after having "saved" us all year.
Yay. - Here’s my recipe for Mum’s Boiled Fruit Cake! It is all made in one big saucepan ..... then pour into a lined cake tine and decorate as you please ... the perfect Xmas Cake!
https://onlinenetwork.bcna.org.au/discussion/18971/what-are-your-easiest-tastiest-meals-quick-to-prepare-when-you-cant-think-of-anything/p11
Don’t forget to whack up any cool, easy recipes on the thread! ;) - @patdug they look magnificent.
- That’s lovely to hear @Raich 😊♥️
