Oops! Forgot to buy Yorkshires and had to make my own (for the first time).

Looks all right!

Home made Yorkshire pudding in a small black bread tin

Today’s offerings.

A Christmas menu features starters like baked beans, cheesy pasta, and soup, mains such as roasted chicken legs with sides, and a dessert of ice cream and chocolate brownies.

Santa wasn’t in his Grotto today (elf and safety reasons), so me and little kid had to improvise.

A person and a child are sitting together on an ornate chair surrounded by festive decorations.

As I mentioned last year, I regularly bookmark people’s posts who I might otherwise have “liked” or “boosted” elsewhere.

And I have a few people on my blogroll who I especially like to read (and a few I need to add to that list, too).

And a few regulars I enjoy a little back and forth with occasionally.

So, I’m very happy using micro.blog. It’s very actively developed by @manton and community members, and suits my needs almost perfectly.

A xmas miracle!

Both kids are asleep before 9 pm!

Getting ready for this evening.

H/t to @jthingelstad for the Irish Cream suggestion.

A small mahogany table holds a bottle of Five Farms Irish Cream Liqueur, a mince pie on a saucer and a carrot and a parsnip on another saucer, in front of a toy oven and a dark red cupboard adorned with stickers.

All set!

Selfie of big kid, little kid, Dad and Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Leftover slice of pizza and blackberry and apple crumble for brunch.

Tomorrow’s veggies almost all done.

✅ Roasted carrots and parsnips.

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✅ Mashed potatoes.

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✅ Roasted potatoes.

A rectangular beige ceramic baking dish on a black stove top filled with roasting whole potatoes garnished with herbs de provence

Plan for tomorrow:

🥕 Prepare and cook veggies for xmas lunch
🍿 Watch Sonic 3 with kids at cinema
🛏️ Get kids off to bed and sleep early (haha)
🎅 Get my Santa outfit on and deliver presents (which this year are already wrapped)

Quite the confession.

Gabriel said the agency duped Hezbollah into buying the pagers, making advertising films and brochures, and sharing them on the internet.

“When they are buying from us, they have zero clue that they are buying from the Mossad,” he said. “We make like [movie] Truman Show, everything is controlled by us behind the scene.”