@Mumtobabyhavoc I do indeed love Harry Potter 😄 I do agree with introducing HP as an experience first, whilst they are so young. I trained as a nursery nurse and always loved working with children. Everything is new to them and it really makes you appreciate the magic they can see in everything. I re-trained as a primary teacher and loved working with older children as well. I am just in awe of children’s imagination and creativity in this harsh world.
My son decided that his sons wouldn’t be watching any of the films, until they had read the books, so he could explain things to them. He used to read them a couple of chapters every night, after their bath and they would snuggle into his bed. We watched the first film together one Christmas and it was really magical for us all. They are 9 and 11 now and he still reads to them, even though they read books themselves.
@HildaTablet Id love to see the children in their costumes. It’s just so magical. A few years ago my OH and I were having a coffee, watching children going to the theatre opposite to watch Frozen. There were so many girls dressed as Anna and Elsa and a few boys dressed as Olaf, the snowman. One small boy stood out, because he was marching to the beat of his own drum; he was dressed as Batman! Brilliant!!
@MyrtleLion the cold sore patches are very good. I love your Christmas week menu. Leftovers are some of the best things about Christmas food. We had a friend who would make stuffing sandwiches and said he could imagine the turkey. I like that idea. A couple of years ago I ordered some meat from an online butcher. They delivered the wrong order so I got in touch with them and they said to keep that order and they would send me my order as well. The spare order turned out to be quite large joints of beef, lamb, pork and steaks. Plenty of leftovers that year! When our Portuguese family are here, we have Bacalhau on Christmas Eve. Each Portuguese household has their own version. There are supposed to be 365 variations of it. Ours has salted cod, potatoes and hard boiled eggs. I love Chinese nibbles. We used to go to a Chinese restaurant that had buffet food. I used to stick to the dim sum and duck with pancakes. I very rarely moved onto a main course.
Fingers crossed for your job, hopefully you will hear something soon. I am now wishing we had Prosecco here. When we get some I’ll toast you as well. Cheers 🥂
@mathanxiety your stuffing sounds amazing. I was never sure of the difference between stuffing and dressing. I’ve never had pecan or pumpkin pie, but I’d like to try. We watch some US sitcoms, like The Middle, which we loved and they used to have a side dish of green jello with marshmallows, not sure how I feel about that. When I lived in Canada, the housekeeper from another family made sweet potato mashed with butter and brown sugar. I’m not fond of sweet and savoury food together and I did not like it. I didn’t try sweet potatoes again for many years, but I like them now as wedges and roasted or air fried. I used to chat online to someone in Montana. He put his webcam on, in his kitchen and a few friends around the world joined in his Thanksgiving preparation and the meal, with his family and friends. That was a wonderful night.
I’ve just read that the Taskmaster television programme is taking a live version to the States in the new year. I would highly recommend this, if anyone gets the chance to go and see it. I watched the TV programme from the first series and can thoroughly recommend it. I’ve introduced it to family and friends and we’ve watched it multiple times. I’ve even watched the Australian, New Zealand and Swedish (with subtitles) versions, but they aren’t quite as funny.