A week goes by

Woah! Where did that whole week go? I know I have been busy and energy levels are on the up and up which is nothing but good at this time of year. I have been sewing and organising gifts and baking and spending ridiculous amounts of time in the local Post Office and having windows put into our dark kitchen which has made a HUGE difference to my general mood. There’s so much light I don’t know what to do with myself. The tree is up, the carols are on repeat, the kids are counting down to the end of school and then to the big day itself… I am starting to think “maybe I should start planning  what I am going to feed everyone on Christmas day.”

I have also been reading “The Dud Avocado” which I finished yesterday. I think I read it about five years ago and I still really love it. I have an old original penguin paperback copy of it and I have to hold it carefully with both hands as its pages are falling out. That explains why I haven’t been blogging. I know that sounds like an odd association, but it’s because usually I would read while I do other things – I spend a lot of time stirring at the stove or sitting at a traffic light with an open book in one hand. But not this one or there’d be a curled brown page in the sausage casserole or a completely demolished book sitting on the floor of the car (as I have a tendency to chuck the book with a kind of spasm when the light changes), so it had to wait until I could sit down and do nothing else which is usually when I would blog. So that’s a long explanation of nothing much.

But I am all about the christmas biscuits this year (cookies if you prefer). Have you seen this? Gourmet’s Favourite Cookies from 1941-2008. Mostly when I browsed through the photos I thought about the production team having to whip up batch after batch of vintage goodness. What a job.

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