Lindsey and I headed out at around 7am on Christmas Eve. We managed Wilson's with no difficulty for the fruit and veg. The supermarket was pleasantly empty. We headed over to Alfredton to run an errand. We hit Bunnings, which was nice and orderly. Then we headed back into town to pick up the seafood. We got there about 15 minutes after the seafood shop opened. By then the queue had snaked its way along the shopfronts, round the corner, up past the pet shop and computer shop and halfway along the supermarket wall.
I held our place in the queue while Lindsey did a few other things that we had planned to do.
One hour and forty five minutes later we had the Christmas seafood. I have said this before but let me remind everyone. I AM NOT DOING THIS AGAIN!!!!! If anyone wants to order seafood to be picked up on Christmas Eve, they can pick it up themselves. I got my seafood from the van at the mushroom farm, where there was no queue at all - and very nice it was too.
We launched Christmas by having Christmas Eve dinner at our place. Stella, Emily and Lindsey came down from Hill House (Ian was invited but had things he needed to do). Freyja and Simon came from Melbourne and we had seafood bisque (seafood from the van, not the shop), followed by roast turkey for the meat eaters, and miso soup followed by a Smith and Deli's roast "turkey" for the non-meat eaters, accompanied by lemon potatoes and creamed vegetables.
Freyja and Simon stayed over and spent Christmas morning on the traditional Put Together The Complicated Present game, constructing a castle for the cats
It must be said that the cats aren't absolutely excited by this castle. Marlo would have loved it. Brandy and Whiskey aren't quite as fascinated by boxes.
I spent the afternoon making these vegan-friendly courses for the Christmas Feast:
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| Mango and raspberry trifle |
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| Festive vegetable and tofu pie |
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| Scalloped potatoes |
And then everyone assembled at Hill House for the evening Feast. And a very merry evening it was.
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| Stella |
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| Tony's memorial bear with a bottle of good red wine |
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