Crepes and Mulled Whine in your pants

[Auriga]

Somebody had to do it

meant to post this yesterday... loved wibbly pig but my dcs absolute favourites were Frog and Toad and the divine Frances

I did some more tidying/cleaning and then gave up and had a cocktail. Living room looks better, but it's more a case that the thin layer of crap that was spread about the place is now a towering pile of crap in the corner. I have not actually resolved what to do with said crap.

God it's late - how does it get to 11.30 so quickly

Complain to the Public Elf. Or the Santation people.

We need to get more festive on this thread

Deck the halls with boughs of holly in your pants

God rest ye merry gentlemen in your pants-

Next thread: Have yourself a merry little Crepey? It was Christmas Eve in the crepe van? It's a wonderful Crepey?

It's beginning to look a lot like crepe?

I'm singing in a carol concert tonight in aid of a children's hospice. Just the thought has me welling up. We have to do all the tear jerkers, like Silent Night, Bleak Midwinter, Little Donkey with the children - who are going to sing Away I A Manger on their own.

Then at the end the congregation will light memory candles while we sing something sad, like Locus Iste or an Ave Maria. I'm not sure I'm going to get through any of it without embarrassingly bawling.

My voice is still not back to normal after I lost it a week ago. The descant parts may not be all they should be, even without a vast lump in my throat.

Simply Having a Crepey Christmastime (in your pants)?

Crepe Christmas?

Ding dong crepily on high
Rockin around the crepey tree
Crepey crackers

DD2 has reminded me about making orange parfait (family favourite with Christmas pud). Plus getting together ingrédients for stuffing. She says she'll help me next weekend. I think I'm going to delegate as she seems more on the ball than me. I think if I can get a turkey and some sprouts back to the house, I'll be relieved.

Meanwhile, DD2 (middle and least vocal child) has still not got a present. She says she just wants loads of clothes from H&M but we may as well wait for the sales. She needs something Under the tree though!

I have had a glass of wine at lunch and am now feeling like (yet another) sleep on the sofa. I have treated myself to the new Margaret Atwood book which I'm going to burrow into.

Well, I spent the morning baking/cooking a few goodies for this evening as we've got some neighbours (and 3 of DD's friends for a sleepover) coming, in between taxiing people to and from places. I have now got to go and get DS and DH (DS went to watch DH play footy!) and then DS and I are going to get the tree from his old primary school. Then when they go to watch their local team and whilst DD is out shopping/cinema, I am supposed to put the lights on the tree and wrap some presents.

But I feel like snoozing on the sofa to an old B&W movie.

I am off to sing in a concert myself, having scored many stocking fillers in Tiger and four pairs of fleece tights in TK Maxx in Lewisham this morning

MI, DD is just off there with her friend!

I took DD1. DD2 is yet to do any shopping. I suggested this afternoon but her dad is knackered - and repulsively grumpy as a result. Am v glad to escape especially as am in dog house for forgetting nit medication.

Our bastard Christmas tree is shedding needles like nobody's business, and there is still a week and a half to go. The DCs are under strict instructions not to touch it, or even look at it from now on. At this rate we'll be digging the fake one out of the loft on Christmas Eve.

I have an afternoon of loo-cleaning, laundry and present wrapping, followed by DD1's Christmas Show at 5pm. She's not on stage much this time, so it will be a couple of hours of watching other people's children singing and dancing, but it should be nice and festive (and I never tire of watching cute littlies in tutus). I should really make some mince pies, but I'd only eat them all.

Hope you are feeling a bit better now, QQ. Now you know why all the women you saw in the restaurant were so thin.

Oh CV, we had a tree like that one year

QQ, meant to say, you should definitely complain - to the restaurant too.

hattymattie, how do you make orange parfait? sounds delicious

12 crepes of christmas (in your pants)

Can someone please PM the title when it happens as I will be in transit for most of today.... (Chichen Itza here we come)

Oooh, I've been there, BD! Great memories and still friends with a couple I met on the trip

ruby, just make sure you get his card before you leave

Sitting around the Christmas tree?

Herbs

Completely knackered around the Christmas tree?

Addle - I can PM you the recipe - it's my mother's BUT when I make it it séparâtes out when freezing and when my mother makes it it doesn't - I still haven't figured out where I go wrong. It still tastes very delicious though.

HM - yes please!