23rd December 1979

Sunday
Stayed in all day
Watched 'The Bitch' on video
Went to Formby with Sam & Stan
Went to the Railway and the Bay Horse
Bed at 1.30 am
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Well it had to happen ... it finally has arrived ... yes the cold bug that is circulating around the Uk has got me. Thankfully it is not the 'flu bug or that Noro virus thing, just a good old fashioned head cold with an annoying tickly cough and a head stuffed with cotton wool.
Managed to get my mince pies done and the apple & plum sauces and sponges for the trifles though.. I do feel a bit rubbish now!!



My Christmas Day Menu is done ... teen typed up a proper menu for my guests but we are having a few techy problems transfering it to print !!

Anyway Christmas Day is looking like this

Starters
Melon and Mandarins with rasberry coulis
~or~
Prawns in marie rose sauce on a bed of iceberg lettuce served with wholemeal bread soldiers

Main Course
Roasted duck
Roasted pork fillet
Medallions of chicken breast
chipolata sausages wrapped in bacon
Mashed and roasted potatoes
Roasted sweet potatoes and parsnips

Julienne carrots in honey
Broccolli
Sprouts
Balls of sage & onion stuffing
Pork & chestnut stuffing

Sauces
Cumberland jelly with port
Plum sauce
Apple sauce
Gravy

Dessert

Choice of chocolate, syrup or toffee puddings served with ice cream, custard and or cream
Individual trifles
Selection of cheeses with crackers
Coffee and mince pies

Advent 23 ....the penultimate one .. that means only 2 more sleeps (yipeeee)

This is way cool I could play with it for hours ..... here are my first 2 I did

Have only had a quick go at this running dinosaur game .... level 2 scared me ;-(

It's a Knockout was very musch a 70s/80s TV programme in the UK. I actually went to watch some heats in Southport as a teen. This You Tube clip is Jeux Sans Frontieres where European nations compete ... Stuart Hall who presented the programme was renouned for his giggling whilst commentating

December 23

Saturday 23rd December 1978
I hate Saturdays but not this one.
Worked 11.00 - 5.00 = £4.00 wages
Got a presy from Germany.
A mirror and a Father Christmas full of sweets. (My mother still has this Father Christmas at her house and he gets filled up with sweets each Christmas. They are better than the ones that came with him, the chocolate smelled of bacon and tasted vile)
Met Sam at the Art Centre at 2.00 for lunch.
He met me later at 5.00 and came for tea.
We went to Follies.
The same 'scrubber' was there. She kept away from us.
Had a really great night
Got home at 2.15 am
Merry Crimbo
Sam gave me my presy
A huge Snoopy about 1ft 6" tall
(Snoopy still lives with us. For the past 14 years he has been held captive in the Teen's bedroom. He's not quite as white as he was, mind you he is 29 and only had a couple of surface rub downs)


Day 23 (thank you)

I am listening to Radio One to see who is Christmas number one this year (see I am not that much of a fuddy duddy!). I hoped it would be Take That after seeing them perform this live last week.... fabulous. But they are number 7.
I guess it will be Leon after his success on the X-Factor (god my Teen wants to enter that next year!!!)
In 1978 the number one was Boney M - Mary's Boy Child. I have this thing about Boney M, it's that bloke (what are those pants about??), never got along with them then or now!



Today's game is a girlie one with a cute white bunny .... after getting loads of 10's I soared to a staggering 5430