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The days are getting shorter; the clocks are going back...let's countdown to Christmas 2019 (thread 6)!

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NoWordForFluffy · 06/10/2019 00:04

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New thread. We're picking up speed!

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NoWordForFluffy · 09/10/2019 13:53

I've been up here for 11 years this year. Combined with uni in Sheffield, my vowel sounds are all over the place! 😂

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NerosFiddle · 09/10/2019 13:57

Separated by a common language.

WheelchairWoes · 09/10/2019 13:58

fanny Nope. lol puff pastry is something completely different. At least here haha It's got a totally different consistency. We just use biscuit dough and the photos you guys showed me of jam and stuff on your scones? Thats how we eat our biscuits haha. Puff Pastry is really only used in deserts and little pies and things.

LOL

I fell asleep so early last night and woke up feeling kind of hung over because I slept too much! Ready to go out and about today! My hearing aid that was at the shop is fixed so we're picking him up today and seeing how it goes! We'll drive by the town square so I can get some pics of them setting up the festival.

Book and cook don't sound the same here in my area. Book rhymes with took and cook sounds like cuck lol But I'm told I have the midwestern accent haha

woolly interesting! I'm craving our type of biscuits now covered in jam and butter. Yum.....but we have none haha I'll post a photo and dream of eating it haha

crazy That advent is AMAZING omg!! And I can totally see that on him wanting more festive than his mom does. Makes a lot of sense.

I don't like the taste of bacon lol so I would try your version of pigs in a blanket just to say I have hahaha one of my facebook friends from the UK tried our version of pigs in a blanket and declared she was making them that way forever haha it amused me.

We have Breakfast, Dinner (some folks call it lunch it depends on your location. But even our wikipedia says dinner is the biggest meal and that used to be eaten midday so it's right for both lunch and supper) and then we have Supper. Brunch is between breakfast and dinner.

Fiddle I LOVE accents!

Also guys I just realized I have a new decoration this year I think you all are going to love and I forgot to tell you all about it. In 1978? My mother went to a pottery painting and glazing place that her friend owned in Colorado. She purchased a few pieces of a nativity to try and painted them. She didn't have the money to get them fired but her friend gave her the rest of the figures and fired them all for free one figure at a time when she fired the students pieces. So this nativity sat on my grandmothers mantle since 1979 but now she has dementia and has been trying to throw things away. So my mom rescued the nativity and now I own it! This will be the first year I'll get to use it and i'm so excited! I've got it stored beneath my china cabinet and will share photos of it with you. IT's really a large set

WheelchairWoes · 09/10/2019 14:00

Have an American biscuit and an american scone! I'm really curious what you'll think of our scones haha

The days are getting shorter; the clocks are going back...let's countdown to Christmas 2019 (thread 6)!
The days are getting shorter; the clocks are going back...let's countdown to Christmas 2019 (thread 6)!
WheelchairWoes · 09/10/2019 14:03

Crazy HAHA most Americans would be totally puzzled by crackers. I've never seen them irl! HAHA only on tv shows

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WheelchairWoes · 09/10/2019 14:23

fanny Interesting!! All our biscuits are called the same. Even if they have different consistencies they are still called a biscuit. Some people just have different consistencies for their biscuits.

Our scones are always triangle shaped with stuff baked in em haha so they are very very different than our biscuits

Our food crackers are the same it looks like! Ritz crackers and the lot. But Christmas Crackers? The pull apart things? We don't have those lol

Very informative morning! This helps me translating what I'm eating for you all ;) lol

WreckTangled · 09/10/2019 15:17

I am not going to bother catching up today! Have been enjoying the autumnal views whilst visiting today

The days are getting shorter; the clocks are going back...let's countdown to Christmas 2019 (thread 6)!
The days are getting shorter; the clocks are going back...let's countdown to Christmas 2019 (thread 6)!
DaveTheGhost · 09/10/2019 15:41

God you lot post a lot! I won’t catch up today as I’m absolutely exhausted. Both boys are poorly and clingy and I’m coming down with it too now. I hope you’ve all had a good day!.

CrazyBaubles · 09/10/2019 15:48

I think I confused things with crackers - I meant the ones we pull before dinner (pic attached).
wheels when we spent Christmas in America we pulled our crackers, told each other the jokes and put the hats on then heard a young boy say "that's what you're supposed to do with them. Isn't that weird" Xmas Grin (most people copied us and pulled them though).

It's a shame that they're so environmentally bad because I think they're going to slowly disappear but I love them.
If we ever have children I would make my own I think, and for now we'll do without them (and make my mum save us one because she'll never stop buying them).

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Chocolateteabag · 09/10/2019 15:48

Nice to see some outside space Wreck - we are in a windowless box with strip lighting. That said, feeling more positive (or aiming for it) DSIS has just been for an MRI - seen her being wheeled back but don't suppose we will hear any thing until after they have a big meeting tomorrow to review
I have decided I'm going home tomorrow too, DBro2 will come up and take over. I've sorted out air BNB for them til next Tuesday

Back to DH and my boys! Which I'm guiltily looking forward to. Going to do some baking and jam making this weekend, I have lots of fruit in my freezer which needs to be cleared to make way for Christmassy nibbles.
I also need to get back to my other hobby of b t prepping - they will have decimated my loo roll stocks etc so need to do some shopping on Friday
Plus need to catch up on work! I am self employed with some v understanding clients but still.

CrazyBaubles · 09/10/2019 15:48

Forgot the pic Blush

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Chocolateteabag · 09/10/2019 15:49

Ooh no idea how that last bit went bold - blame B-**t!

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WreckTangled · 09/10/2019 16:45

Grin don't worry I wasn't offended. I'm pretty close to goodwood!

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NoWordForFluffy · 09/10/2019 16:56

I'm afraid I know bugger all about trees, sorry! I've got ones I need to prune too. I recommend the RHS website for advice though. I use it loads!

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WheelchairWoes · 09/10/2019 17:21

Crazy yup that's what I was talking about! I think fanny thought I was talking crackers cracker haha

Most folks in the USA have never seen a party cracker and wouldn't know what to do with them lol

fanny For trees? I use google to help me figure out pruning haha

wreck I love all those trees you were driving though!

I'm home! We went to get flea treatment for the kitties and then picked up my new hearing aid. And then dropped it off cause it stopped working and they fixed it. And went by where they are setting up the fall foliage festival!

Here's some photos of set up! I can't wait to go there :) It opens tomorrow and this year they have the carousel again

The days are getting shorter; the clocks are going back...let's countdown to Christmas 2019 (thread 6)!
The days are getting shorter; the clocks are going back...let's countdown to Christmas 2019 (thread 6)!
WreckTangled · 09/10/2019 17:27

This was us at goodwood. Anyone who recognises me hopefully knows me well enough not to put me Grin

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