So, this is Christmas...and Blogger's doing it again!

Can't upload anything, I reckon it's discrimination!

I had it all planned to put some really pretty Christmas graphics on but, thanks to Blogger being perverse, you'll just have to imagine them

Well, it's Christmas Eve, I have everything done apart from cooking the chooks. I have one cooking now and the other in the fridge waiting its turn. They're so big I can only cook one at a time. Fortunately, chicken doesn't need absolutely hours of cooking to make it tender, a couple of hours each should do it, but I'll know when I check.

My daughter is having Christmas at her place this year - about 40 people, of whom a lot of those are kids. She's bought 3 kilos of prawns - that's always a Christmas day must. We'll have lots of salads, cold meat, crusty crunchy bread and desserts like cheesecake, pavlova, icecream and lots of other yummy stuff. After opening the presents, we'll fill our plates, laugh, talk, eat and drink and then collapse in heap while the kids jump in the pool. The champagne will be flowing, there will be icy cold stubbies of beer (XXXX Gold of course, this is Queensland, none of that Foster's, Carlton or VB stuff) for the guys and chilled wine and fruit juice for anyone who doesn't drink beer. For the O/S readers XXXX is actually the brand name of Queensland's beer, pronounced fourex. But some guys don't mind the odd Bud. The kids will have lemonade, fruit juice and icy poles.

We'll pick at the leavings during the afternoon, watch the storm and just have a lovely lazy hot day. We always get a storm on Christmas day, sometimes with hail, which can be rather noisy on top of the thunder. We will be having lunch outside under the huge patio complete with ceiling fans and will be lovely and dry throughout the storm. Even the pool's under cover, but of course no-one will be swimming then, not with lightning around.

Later on in the evening, we'll have dinner which will probably be a simple barbeque of something - sausages and bread, and more fruit dessert and about nine or ten o'clock people will be picking up sleeping kids, all their presents, dishes and so on and making their way home.

And that will be Christmas over for another year. Then comes New Year and resolutions! Yeah, right. I start off so well and somehow, the whole thing just fizzles out...

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas day with your families, friends and pets. But, remember, don't drink and drive - as the commercial says, "Enough is enough!"

See you all in a couple of days' time with posts on your Christmas Day.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

TO ALL

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