How long has it been since the last blog entry, it seems for ever. I guess Christmas has taken a large part of my time so having the time for the blog has been minimal.
Apart from being busy at work, finalising clients tax returns before Christmas, we have been so busy at home preparing for Christmas day. We decided to have Christmas lunch at our place this year for our families.
As Marion is German, Christmas eve is the time for celebrating and opening presents. We had dinner at Marion’s mums place and then it was over to our place to open the presents. Some close friend called in as well later in the evening to exchange gifts.
Christmas day, Marion and I was on the go from the moment we woke up, Marion and I needed to prepare lunch for 17 people, the day went reasonably smoothly, almost. A minor issue when I moved the roasting vegetables about in the oven. I had moved the potatoes to the top of the oven where it is warner and the tray of pumpkins and sweet potatoes to the bottom of the oven. Marion had put baking paper on the bottom of the tray, and when I put the tray in, I had pushed it to close to the flame and consequently it started to burn… the kitchen filled with smoke setting off the fire alarm.
The second incident occurred while the roasts were cooking in the BBQ, Marion thought it would be a good idea to turn the heat up on the BBQ to brown the cooking roasts, had I before cleaned the excess fat from the drip tray all would have been fine! What resulted was a fire in the BBQ, the veranda filled with smoke. Luckily the roast came out unscathed and was able to be served.
Every one enjoyed the day, Marion and I were totally wasted. The following day we spent watching videos and being lazy. One of my gifts from Marion was a Bluray pack of the 3 Bourne Identity movies, which we watched them as well as the Lord of the Rings, movies one and two. Watched the third Lord of the Rings movie the following day.
Over the next couple of days we have my Nana’s 90th birthday celebration and we are getting ready to go camping at Butlers Beach on the York Peninsula. I am seeing myself doing very little for the week that we are there.
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