You can tell it’s Christmas when the local theatre opens up with the annual Panto’, this year in Milton Keynes it is Peter Pan and for the fourth year running who do we have playing Captain Hook……..
Henry Winkler of Happy Days fame, here he is in his costume and the great thing is, guess where he has decided to stay for his duration playing our favorite one handed baddie, but in the apartments above our office, so I have seen him exactly eleventy-billion times in the last week. The urge to put up both thumbs and yell “Heeeeeyyyyyyy!!” is over whelming and I have resisted so far, but I’m not making any promises that I can keep it up.
Ok, everyone, it’s been a while, so gird your loins for a LannyLee patented (well not quite, but I’m working on it) Old Lady Rant!
I think this sums up most of it. I apologise now to those of you who have already purchased one of these for your children, or indeed for yourselves, but I cannot stand them. To me they stand for everything that is wrong with Christmas. They are, tacky, commercialised and more to the point not much bloody good. Why would you pay sometimes close to £4 quid for tasteless, plasticky chocolates in a gaudy, un-Christmassy wrapper (usually Barbie or Tweenies or some other non-Christmas type character) they are just, awful, awful, awful.
Ok, rant over, you can un-gird your loins or de-gird or whatever you need to do.
For those of you who like me just cannot bring yourself to waste your money on such a thing here is a nice on-line one with games to play behind every number, perfect if you have a minute (or ten) to waste at work, just don’t tell your boss who gave you the link if you get caught.
Did anyone else see Britney on X-factor
on Saturday – bloody hell! – what was her management thinking, it was like leading a lamb to the slaughter, did no one prep her at all? Dermot tried in vain to interveiw her but it was like she just wasn’t hearing him or just didn’t care. I felt for her last year, but I’ve got to confess my patience is wearing a little bit thin. Ok, if you’re ill and genuinely care about your children and your sanity – stay at home with them! Instead of jetting off all over the world. Those two little boys didn’t ask to be born, but now you have them they need to be your first priority, not prancing around on stage looking like a glorified prostitute.
Wow look at that another rant just crept up on me and I didn’t even warn you, sorry about that. I don’t mean to sound un-sympathetic or un-kind, but surely she needs to address her priorities and when you have children they have to be your first.
Ok, all done now – promise.
I made Gordon Ramseys Winter Casserole on Sunday and to be perfectly honest, I wasn’t all that impressed. I altered the recipe slightly as it asked for whole baby onions (I didn’t have any just used 1 big one sliced up) and chesnut mushrooms (just used ordinary button mushrooms) and also celariac (who has this in? – so I just chopped up some swede) it was nice, don’t get me wrong, I just expected more, and to be perfectly honest it just tasted like stew, which is no bad thing. I was just expecting something fantastic, something wonderful and frankly something worthy of a multi Michelin starred chef such as Mr Ramsey, but it was just stew. It was perfectly nice, but I think I’ll just keep making my own, N said hepreffered mine anyway, so no harm done.
I think that’s all for now, so I’ll be off.
Every year I get an advent calendar shipped in from my sister in Belgium. Over there they seem to appreciate that “Christmas” really OUGHT to at least have a nod towards the baby Jesus, shepherds, stable, kings and all that. No chocolate, no Hannah Montana, no Simpsons, no iceskating Winnie the Pooh. Just a nice nativity scene, with little pictures behind the windows. My kids, big tho they are, think thats a “proper” advent calendar. They have the chocolatey crap ones over at their dad’s – every year they come home and say “grandma got us one of those stupid countdown things with the chocolate in”. It makes me feel vindicated!
Dont even get me started on my annual hunt for Christmassy (instead of ’seasonal’) Christmas cards!
Lest you think Im some kind of religious zealot, Im not. I just think if you’re going to celebrate a religious festival……! Ive certainly never seen celebration cards for festivals of other religions whcih didnt at least make some kind of reference to the occasion. Rant over. s x
PS Lidl has celeriac on special offer this week! You can mash it (lovely with beef) or roast it like normal spuds. YUM!
Comment by stepfordtart — December 2, 2008 @ 3:53 pm |