Friday 13 November 2015

Is that sleigh bells I hear?

It's almost here.  Boy, where did that year go?  There is something about your first sight of Christmas decorations that makes the rest of the year really fly.  The wall to wall carols playing in the supermarket aisles makes me want to move my shopping trolley just a little bit faster.  Fortunately it's only mid November so we can cast a leisurely glance over the glossy magazine pages of elaborate Christmas menus and overloaded tables stuffed with fare.  Each year they seem to outdo the last.  This year it appears we need to have home made decorations including crocheted bunting draped under the fire place and Irish linen wrapped parcels.  The menus become more unique as the traditional foods get gazumped by the inventive.  Whilst giving the appearance of a frugal feast, the pictured glazed rare species of some sort that will take two days to cook, if not found roaming wild in your back paddock will probably cost you an amount similar to a holiday in Spain. The assortment of children should be strategically placed around the table in crisp white cotton (as if) seen joyfully playing with hand crafted bon bons and not an iphone in sight. Fortunately our reality is not quite so stylised as our much tried and true traditions prevail.  There is some comfort to know, no matter what book or magazine we choose for inspiration, there will no doubt be mess, stress and we'll promise ourselves, that next year it will be at their place.

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