I get on well with my MIL.
But.
She insists that beef should be cooked for about 3 weeks my wife insists we cook it to her mother’s liking, it’s battle every year to get it cooked and out before either interferes. I lost last year but triumphed this year.
I bought beef dripping for the the yorkshire puds and the roasties. I got lectured for about 20 minutes on how to cook the roasties, in the end I told her I’m cooking them how I like them done. When it came around to heating the fat up the Mrs asked if were were using the beef dripping, I was at the sink cleaning stuff but the silence between her and mother meant her mother had turned her nose up. So olive all it was, my blood boiled here but I kept my cool as the rest of the year she’s great.
Then the TV, I dodged the Ice dancers as we had the Xmas Dinner then, managed to skirt a few other shows but on came Corrie. Then proceeded the MIL’s narration of what was happening and who was doing what with who and future plots, a painful hour. When that was over I reclaimed it with Indiana Jones, the wife asked what it was (look it’s her mother so she’s never seen many films) her mother declared I don’t know but it’s load of rubbish. That was it, you can knock anything but my childhood heroes from the 80s. So they were told “It’s Indiana Jones and it’s a far more believable story plot than that Corrie shite.” She did see the funny side and the Sisters in Law said she agreed with me, hmmmm!