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100 I can see of course why you wanted to speak to Avi and Possum about it. It was the asides and things about me that upset me.

I really appreciate you saying sorry for upsetting me actually! I never said you upset anyone else, just that I was upset by it personally. Up till now everyone's response seems to have been "well it doesn't matter, because no-one ELSE was upset." Which felt a bit . But I think as usual I may have expressed myself less than clearly. Anyway, I have emailed you again. I hope we can clear it up and I am sure everyone else would be heartily relieved if I would just shut up about it.

Now can everyone bustle about the newbies a bit so they don't notice all this crap I am talking and which you are all so politely ignoring?

Bee I just read your message about the cake and the rapport. Yes yes! There were lots of bits like that weren't there?

Yes, I htink you could freeze the dough.
Roll it into a sauage shape, then when yuo take it out the freezer, you can slice rounds off it reday to bake. I suppose t might alter the consistency a bit.

I have been soakign the fruit in sherry for 3 days now as i haven't had time to actaully bake the cake!

I never soak the fuit for my cake I just pour alcohol over it whenever I remember throughout December. That's probably not the right way though.

FMV - what do you mean? It's your heritage to like nasty currenty things?

MrsC, eh? What as a vixen, a lunatic, a cake-lover or a northerner???

Franny if i bustle around poor manchita much longer, she'll think I'm a stalker. (I was lonely, everyone else was off being all vital and bustly and busy...)

Ooooooh...I love christmas pudding...but loathe mince pies
& hate hate hate cake with marzipan & cement icing

well.....our tree is adorned & rather beautiful
we have made gingerbread men
ds is coughing so badly & looks so dreadful that I am worried about lapland thingy tomorrow...I shall have to bundle him up in a quilt & balaclava & we shall have to hack & splutter our way around & ignore everyones 'What kind of a mother is she,bringing an ill child like that?' stares

Hello Manchita

I don't like Christmas puddings either. They are too rich and bitter. I would quite like to like them.

I am having a daft day with not enough food in it. There wasn't enough soup so I scraped the children's bowls. Then I ate stale cake crumbs from the kitchen side.
But now I am roasting veg, cooking rice and thinking about chocolate pudding.

Good luck with tomorrow LL! I hope you all enjoy it.

I hate cement icing too but Christmas cake coated with marzipan and chocolate is quite something

I was thinking of Bill Bryson, FMV, and him sitting over a teacake and cup of tea and grumbling about our national obsession with dried fruit.

I love cake but I can't bear thick icing with only a smear of marzipan. So stingey. I try not to judge people by the thickness of their marzipan but it's hard.

now I was mumbly contentedly over a toasted tea cake this very afternoon I just can't stand a high density of currenty/raisiny stuff like xmas pud or eccles cakes A lightly studded fuit cake or nice tea loaf is fine though...

I have been shopping for some bits for the MN secret santa thingy and the rotary shoebox thingy. I feel quite excited.

oh....have you been emailed yet?
I havn't

All is well. We have made up

Sorry all.

Yes we have Bared Our Souls and Understand Each Other and will bore you no longer.

(yeah right )

Please all invite me to restorative games of Sc%&*^le

frannyandzooey at india dot com

I promise not to go mental and start shouting at you on the thread if you play a word I don't like

DD has headlice again.

Dammit - I hate the little swines, all crispy and bloodsucking.

This must be the third thing today.

Hello

Ahh, you've e-mailed, goood.

Phew.

Oh sorry about the headlice MrsC. They are upsetting aren't they.

Tatties I wish you had made some for me. Dp cooking again night. Two types of potato, yum.

Gosh ds has really been quite wearing today. I wonder if he is coming down with something.

I like Christmas pudding, but I don;t want to eat it at the same time as all the other things because I don;t have the room for it.

I like to eat it gently warmed maybe on Dec 27th with a huuuuuge dollop of brandy butter.

Oh god, I'd better dig out some larger clothes for after Christmas, I think

ha my odd night turned odder having inadvertently let dgs see his xmas pressies and find grandmas finger in the bed with his feet i then had to leap out of bed this am as he was banging on the door and say don't open the door grandm's getting dressed as i had a man i n there...ther is no way that shouting grandma's getting dressed while pullingon random dirty clothes from the floor is sexy

think my fruit and veg today was a dried apricot in a gross white stilton panini in debenhams in a omg brum is a scrum

Oh Franny you could have some, there is loads!