Hit the road, Jack...
I've just sat down with a cup of tea for what feels like the first time in a week. We haven't been anywhere to speak of (except for a short jaunt into the East End, more of this later) but there has been a lot to do at home with the pending Yuletide festivities which are just a month away. I've been cooking you see. Now that in itself is nothing short of a miracle if you ask the husband, but he has been particularly peeved during this period of frenzied kitchen activity because every time he has come home over the last week, there has been something cooling on the worktop. The conversations this week have nearly all gone the same way... 'Is that sausage plait you've made there?' 'Yes, but it's for Christmas'. 'But there's two there. Surely we only need one for Christmas?' 'Cast your mind back to last year my love. I made two which were both demolished before I managed to stuff the turkey. So yes, we do need two an