Feeling festive? I'm just taking a few minutes between squidging up the chestnut stuffing ingredients & making pastry to wish all our friends a Happy Yuletide. The turkey is defrosting, a scary amount of sprouts have taken up residence in the pantry, everything is ready for guests & I have only macaroon mince pies & star biscuits to bake before applying my backside to a chair with a glass of something & a wodge of Christmas Cake.
Fellow cat-owners will know it's touch & go this time of year whether the tree remains intact for longer than the two hours it took to put it up. So far so good here, but we had a wobble yesterday when Albert Whiskers climbed up behind the tree so as to get a better paw to a large red bauble he's clearly taken against. After several bashings, he got one of his slasher claws stuck in the metal hook at the top of the bauble. His solution to this? Well, it's never the sensible option of retracting their claws back into their feet is it? No, he pulled & pulled, branches swaying about all over the place, then had the genius idea of trying to walk away claw still attached, until the Bigger Hairier Cat Handler in the Relationship somehow managed to get cat & bauble uncoupled. Was he grateful? If he was, he showed it by chomping his rescuer twice on the foot, before ambling over to undo my bootlaces with his teeth! He is refusing to eat the food we got in for him over Christmas. The blackbirds will be pleased, but I have to wonder if it's a ploy to get more turkey. We shall soon see.
Well, I'm going to raise a toast to you all, & send you a 'virtual' piece of Christmas Cake.
Whether you are celebrating the birth of the son of your god, the older Midwinter Feast of Yuletide as we do, or are simply looking forward to some much deserved time off work & routine to spend with family & friends, we'd like send our best wishes for a happy, peaceful time. I know many of our friends will be thinking of the people who are having a horrible time at the moment - the winter seas are unlikely to stop desperate people risking their lives trying to escape from countries devastated by war, not to mention people in our own communities who have been brought low by one of the most cruelly devisive governments ever, including our UK steelworkers & miners who will be hoping to find work in the new year.
I don't know what 2016 will bring, but we all have a voice & we need to use it, remembering the quotation about evil triumphing because good people do nothing.
Well, friends, if you don't have your sprouts on now, you know they'll not be cooked by tomorrow, don't you? And I have to get that cake cut & the kettle on.
Yuletide Blessings from us here at the Peoples & Cats Republic.
C , S & AW xxx
Wishing you a merry time too and thank you for the festive wishes and an hilarious AW story. xx
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