We finally bought the ingredients for the Christmas baking yesterday. I’m hoping to get it started tonight - the fruit for the cake needs soaking overnight, the mix for the pudding needs to sit overnight and the mincemeat is best left to sit overnight too.
The wine is coming on ok. We strained it yesterday to get rid of the sediment and they smell lovely, although the apple and elderberry has a very slight vinegar smell so that may end up being given away as a nice gift of homemade vinegar, lol I have discovered that muslins are excellent for straining - at last, a use for them!!
Is anyone else finding it getting really cold? We had the heating on for an hour last night just to take the chill off. Brrrr! Actually, now I’ve written that I’m thinking of putting it on again just to warm me up slightly.
I bought Jack and Alfie those fleecy suits you put on them over their Pjs. They love them and the other children have decided they want them too. I think I will do some stash busting and make them for them with the metres of fleece under the stairs. I might even make myself one too, lol Has anyone seen a pattern for them anywhere?
Talking of Alfie - I put in his school admission application in the other night. It seems way too early, he’s only 3 and not really ready yet. I know a year is a long time in the life of a child, so maybe by next year he will be more ready for it.
Robbie recently applied to become a teacher at his school’s “Take Over Day” where the pupils and staff swap places for the day. He got accepted and is going to be an English teacher which he is really looking forward to. I am really proud of him. He wrote the application himself and I was surprised at just how good it was (if I was recruiting staff and I got his letter then I would definitely give him an interview). I’m not just saying that because I’m his mum, I genuinely was impressed.
I started writing this about two hours ago, and it’s now half eight so I’m guessing the Christmas stuff will just have to wait until tomorrow because I’m about to eat my dinner.
Hope you have a good rest of the weekend whatever you’re doing, and if not, then {{{{hugs}}}} if you need them.
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Well done Robbie, I think that's a great thing for a school to do, I hope he enjoys it!
I haven't bought the Christmas cake and pud ingredients yet, but I ought to as this is the month to do it isn't it!! (I usually forget and have a panic, mid-Dec and then spoon on too much brandy to make up for the last-minute cooking!) I've never made my own mincemeat though! I hope your wine comes out ok, that's something else I've often thought I'd like to do but have never got round to!
I like the idea of the fleeces over the tops of jimjams! Our house in Quadring was very, very cold and I used to put jumpers on the children over the top of their night clothes, but fleeces would be much better, lighter and more comfy!
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