On Christmas Eve a star led lots of friends bearing gifts right down Mulberry bag drive and into Dave's arms.
We feasted on dressed crab, crab legs, langoustines, chickpea curry, mango salad, Georgian cheese bread (if anyone wanting recipe ideas still reads wyduas then look this bread up), chorizo, and smoked salmon. Plus two cakes. A lime cheesecake a la little Annie and a very melty pile of chocolate from me. Hadn't realised that the chocolate icing would be too hot to take the addition of a layer of chocolate orange. But all members of the Watson family and affiliates agreed that the melty two tone chocolate was very Dali.
I had a riot with Grampa. Dave suggested we become pen friends but we all remember how Bob's attempt at that turned out.. Didn't want to put Grampa through the pain. (To be fair to Bob she couldn't read her elderly pen friend's 1920s scrawl. We can only understand type these days).
So we had a lovely meal and sociale. And it wasn't just Dave who got all the presents. I bagged some Everest sponsorship, a new Grampa, and a potential date with a farmer with an artificial limb post rotary accident. If one night can bring all that, who knows what 2011 will bring?
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