2008 December | Family Affairs and other matters

7 THINGS

14. December 2008

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The gorgeous Miranda from The Times of Miranda has tagged me for a “7 things” xmas thingy. So I thought I’d have a go:-

7 THINGS TO DO BEFORE MY PARENTS ARRIVE

1. Move to a bigger house.

2. Take out shares in an off-licence

3. Buy a Christmas tree

4. Buy presents

5. Make fudge (family tradition – grandmother had a secret recipe)

6. Buy a ham before my mother offers to boil it herself

7. Buy Christmas cake and pudding before grandmother with broken arm offers to make it herself

7 THINGS I’VE BEEN DOING INSTEAD OF PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS

1. Blogging

2. Teaching

3. Blogging

4. Playing with my Aussie friends

5. Procrastinating

6. Blogging

7. Blogging

7 THINGS I CAN’T DO THIS CHRISTMAS

1. Ice skate (love it but too risky)

2. Spend the day with my children (they’re going to their father’s at 11am)

3. Go somewhere hot (I loved all our hot Christmas’s when we lived in HK)

4. Watch the migration of the Wildebeest (like Miranda is doing)

5. Smoke

6. Spend the day with my children

7. Not smoke

7 CHRISTMAS WISHES

1. Peace on earth

2. Happiness to all

3. A Mulberry handbag

4. Tiffany jewellery

5. Gordon Brown to admit he fucked up

6. For my children to remain happy and healthy

7. For the recession not to get any worse

7 THINGS I SAY AS CHRISTMAS APPROACHES

1. Is it nearly Christmas already?

2. I am going to kill someone if I have to listen to another Christmas song

3. Why don’t you make the fudge?

4. Life is too short not to buy pre-peeled brussel sprouts

5. Does anybody want to know what I want for Christmas?

6. No? OK, “present to self” it is then.

7. Where are we all going to sit/sleep/eat?

7 CELEBRITIES I’D INVITE FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER

1. Bob Geldof

2. The Dalai Lama

3. Nelson Mandela

4. Daniel Craig

5. Elvis Presley

6. Audrey Hepburn

7. Chimanda Ngozi Adichi

I realise several of the above are dead. However, as that particular exercise was so far-fetched, I didn’t think it really mattered.

7 FAVOURITE FESTIVE FOODS

1. Quality Streets

2. Fudge

3. Brandy Butter

4. Bucks Fizz

5. Ham

6. Mulled wine

7. Brandy Butter

7 OTHER BLOGGERS WHO CAN PLAY FESTIVE 7

1. Janelle from Life From The Hill

2. Chimera from Holey Vision

3. Reluctant Memsahib

4. A Mother’s Place is in the Wrong

5. Expat Mum

6. Dumdad at The other side of Paris

7. Fat, Frumpy and Fifty

My friends are here from Australia, flopping about in a jet-laggy way. It’s lovely to see them. Annoyingly, they are the perfect family: beautiful, affectionate, considerate. The husband adores the wife, who looks like Julie Christie. They have two gorgeous children. It’s so not fair. It’s difficult because they are having to divide their time [...]