Well that’s it. At least for another year.

I’m enjoying the last piece of our homemade Christmas cake.

Good effort rationing it out over 2 weeks, our cake lasts to boxing day if its lucky!

Christmas cake and cheese yum yum (once I’ve removed the marzipan yuck.

You reminded me I needed to finish the last of the Christmas Port. Between that and the rapidly declining temp outside (from 8 to 3 degrees since 5pm) I now may not get my planned morning bike ride in tomorrow.

I hope you’re pleased with yourselves :-/

Not started ours yet 😀

Might post a piccy later.

You try living somewhere that they don’t *make* Christmas cake. It’s horrendous, how I can be expected to carry on working here I do not know!

I’ve turned down another two that have been offered.. I’m fed up of the stuff..

Just finished icing ours, timing is everything. 😕

Christmas cake and cheese yum yum (once I’ve removed the marzipan yuck.

Send me your marzipan, yum yum. I stick other peoples on mine, I ditch the icing though.

Marzipan is the best thing ever.
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[EDIT] Second best. That almond-milk is lovely, just like liquid marzipan. Mmmmm.
Tastes a bit like cyanide apparently, not tried that though.

I’ve still got a few mince pies and perhaps 3/4 bits of xmas home made shortbread left, just about to switch on the coffee machine so i’ll put a mince pie on top of the stove and by the time i’ve made my espresso the mince pie will be nice n’ warmed through, then i’ll probably do my damnest to finish off my xmas bottle of Aberlour 18yr old with a lump or two of shortbread and a read of the new Privateer mag that dropped through my door yesterday.

How very civilised………

EDIT – Marzipan is the work of the devil and should be cast from your home this minute.

Still loads left here and we’ve started on another.

Almond icing and vanilla vodka as the booze is where it’s at. I’ve only got 1/4 left and have resorted to hiding it on top of a wardrobe to keep it out of the in-laws mitts (they’re like a plague of locusts I tell thee!).

And we are down to the last two boxes of Heston’s mince pies which are the best I’ve tasted. And I doubt I would have ever thought of sprinkling tangerine sugar over said pies but it works superbly.

Ours is just about still there. Cheese rations low, esp after sunday eve’s cheese fest. Oops.
Didn’t have an Xmas pudding this year though, MIL offered, we said yes. Round they toddle on Xmas day, no effing pud. Bastards.

I have one slice of Christmas cake left, it may not last the evening.

That reminds me – ours is still unopened in the cupboard.

I still have cheeses, port, crackers and some exquisite chocolates left to enjoy.