Jacob, having listened to Mummy reading the Nativity story, looked hard at the characters all crowded round the manger, and asked where Father Christmas was.
In her defence, we do pronounce it Sea Porling - which is an anagram of SINGAPORE [but No L, which is seasonally appropriate]
And the one which might have been a real disaster but wasn't...Bob was making his legendary post Christmas soup and asked if we had any tomato puree. "There's some in the freezer which needs using up" I said, and fetched it. It said TOM P on the top. I removed the lid and zapped it in the microwave on defrost for 10 seconds. It was rather light pink, not rich scarlet red. I tasted a little on the tip of a teaspoon. It was strawberry ice cream! I promptly ate it, to soothe my sore throat!
We have not watched a lot of Christmas TV - the family were very quiet so Grandma could watch the King's Speech, and we all watched Wallace and Gromit. Dr Who yes, Gavin and Stacey no[I had not watched any of the previous G&S so decided there was not point] The extra Only Connect, UC and Mastermind have been a treat. I had worked out what would happen on the Xmas All Creatures Great And Small back in the Autumn when Mrs Hall's son put on his sailor's cap marked "HMS Repulse".
My greatest confusion has been working out which day of the week it is...fortunately we pulled out the wheelie bin on the correct morning!
Have there been minor misunderstandings in your house this week?
No more than usual....!
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DeleteNo real misunderstandings, but we have a fridge that decided it wanted to be a cupboard and remain at room temperature, just as Alan filled it with all his Christmas food and drink. 😬 Oh well it's not the end of the world, his freezer is still working ... for now. 😄
ReplyDeleteWe discovered our garage freezer full of icing recently [the hard water sort, not the soft fondant] We now have a fridge alarm [linked to phone] which will alert us VERY LOUDLY if there is a rise in temperature
DeleteI do that thing of mixing up freezer contents far too often 😂
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Alison in Wales x
I thought I was more efficient at labelling. I have mixed up sweet and savoury pies in the past
DeleteNot this year, but two Years ago at Thanksgiving I was putting out the homemade cranberry sauce and there wasn’t enough left in the jar so I grabbed another jar to top up the serving dish. It turns out that it was homemade strawberry jam. It tasted delicious on ham, just a little sweet. We never put labels on the jars as it’s easy to tell the difference between strawberry jam, blueberry jam, and orange marmalade and so difficult to remove the labels to reuse the jars. Cranberry sauce had “C” written on the snap lids. We usually make multiple batches of strawberry jam so the snap lids had A,B,C etc written on them to denote which batch and the next year they are 1,2,3 etc so we can tell them apart . The strawberry jam I’d picked up was batch “C” so I now write a large “CS” on the snap lid for cranberry sauce!
ReplyDeleteI think i'd need to be a cryptographer to crack your jam codes!
DeleteYou would think there were four Sundays this week based on how many times I thought it was Sunday. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteGood thing I keep a wall calendar next to my desk so I can figure out the day of the week...retirement will do that to a person.
I got confused about Julians upcoming birthday so I messaged him. He said that even HE had to check his calendar [it is on Monday]
DeleteI totally missed the pre-Christmas bin collection, my excuse was the house move, so we had an unexpected tip trip. Other than that its been fabulous. And we passed on Gavin and Stacy (I loathe it). Hugs Xx
ReplyDeleteMoving house is a great excuse for just about anything!
DeleteNo confusion but chaos yes. Wretched washing machine has been wreaking havoc and we've had some misery trying to get smelly, sopping washing out and trying to unblock the drainage pipes whilst queuing for Hoover customer care line for an hour!
ReplyDeleteOh that is SO upsetting, I do hope it gets sorted!
DeleteAfter writing a reminder on my phone, we were wakened by the sound of the bin lorry at 8am yesterday!! Two days later than usual and as I don’t know what day it is, I forgot!! Grrr!! Catriona
ReplyDeleteNever mind. It will be back again sometime soon [but there's another BH next week to contend with]
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