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Originally Posted by susie123
Funny that, I'm normally a tea drinker as coffee sends me haywire. The only place I can drink it is in Italy, in those tiny cups that are so small you can hardly get the spoon in.
Shame about the cards, I don't do much for Christmas but I do like to send and receive cards. I decorate with lots of greenery (ivy mainly) and Richard and I always have a proper Christmas dinner, sometimes with an aged relative, but not this year, so we don't have to have turkey (she would turn her nose up at anything else) and can treat ourselves to duck instead. Hooray!
You're right, I keep up some traditions from way back, just for the two of us...
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I am THE tea drinker "Par excellence" and get the shakes if i don't have it at regular intervals during the day.
Had to give up the "Espresso" as it was making me a nervous wreck (together with the tea) and could be found wide awake at 2 and 3 in the morning with eyes as big as a Bush-babies!!
I also like to bring in fresh greenery at Xmas, it's a throw-back to the middle ages when it signified the hope that Spring would prevail over Winter....
I never do a "full" Turkey -my "Italian" family don't appreciate it - usually get a Capon given (hand-reared by a local farmer) and we do home-made ravioli stuffed with braised beef, cooked in beef stock for Xmas day -this is typical in N-Italy.
Xmas Eve is always a fish based meal, as is New Year's Eve -I have celebrated the last "umpteen" NY Eve's alone at mid-night, on the phone to family and friends, as my husband always works on these holidays, Xmas and NY, -in order to let the other men on the farm have a day off.
I do still love the traditions that my family had when I was young -like stockings on the bed for the boys first thing and then all opening the main presents together later -and I do take the stockings in when they are in bed even though they are now 24 and 19! (SAD)
Guinea Fowl is a nice aternative to Turkey , quite like duck and recently had Goose for the first time which was really good...
Love Devil's on Horseback too -but that's because I'm evil at heart. Lol!!!