Stormy Weather

[mercia]

marzipan (euch!) and ceiling plaster topping

I couldn't agree more

[salymap]

Morning all; grey and damp but a sweet temperature.

There is definitely something addictive about marzipan, and almonds in general. My grandson has started icing the fruitcake I made last week. I fully expect to find the top covered in Lego.

Toothache is really bad luck....hope it's better now.

False alarm this time, what the dentist calls 'sensitive nerve pain' cured by good toothpaste.

Thanks goodness, the days will now get longer, albeit, very slowly. It ain't Spring yet by a long way.

[marthe]

Saly, toothpaste can certainly make a difference. My dentist recommended a toothpaste for sensitive teeth which has helped my sensitive teeth! With all the sweets around (marzipan anyone?), my teeth need all the help they can get. The sun has just come out after a rainy morning! Time to do a few last-minute errands.

[BBMmk2]

Gawd!!! What a day! Just latterly, anyway!! ind has speeded up and rain!!! Gah!! Not good to see when you tryiong to get over a big asthma attack, that oi had last night!!

[Chris Newman]

Get well soon, BBM, and have a peaceful Christmas.

[salymap]

Wish you better bbm, I had a friend with bad asthma and it can be very nasty.

The weather has taken a downturn with torrential rain and wind whistling downthe chimney. I've never known such a mixed spell of weather at Christmas.

[Mahlerei]

Yes BBM, get well soon.

Absolutely vile here, the postie making his last - very damp - delivery a few minutes ago.

[Anna]

Absolutely vile here, the postie making his last - very damp - delivery a few minutes ago.

Perhaps you've got what we had earlier, absolutely endless torrential rain beating down, the lane got flooded temporarily because of the sheer volume but cleared away and very pretty red and gold sunset. Quite warm at 10.5 degrees. Is there no post tomorrow then? Didn't know that.

[Ferretfancy]

For a deep 7 inch square Christmas cake, make royal icing in the usual way with egg white, but add a squeeze of lemon juice and a dessert spoonful of glycerin. This results in very nice icing that is easy to cut through and doesn't break your teeth.
Home made marzipan is easy too, and much better than the bought stuff. My cake got it's marzipan about ten days ago, after three weeks with a tot of cream sherry painted on each weekend.
It's now iced and decorated, but I doubt if there will be room for it before Boxing Day !

[marthe]

BBM I hope you're feeling better and that the wind and rain take a holiday for the holiday! Ferretfancy, your Christmas cake sounds delicious! If Sarah and Patty's cakes weren't so delicious, I would try your method myself! Tots of sherry to all! Tomorrow's a big baking day for me. I'll be making Danish Christmas breads to serve and bring to friends. This is a sweet bread made with lots of eggs, butter, sugar, sultanas, almonds, glace cherries, and cardamom. I usually make the dough into rounds loaves or braided rings. This smells heavenly while baking.

[BBMmk2]

Thank you one and all for your best wishes!1 i am now not to bad. I just sat on the sofa or came on the pc(I expect people saw my posts!!) I had a kip in the afternoon too!! My wife had some JSB music, of which was rather good to hear!

[salymap]

The sun has just come out here and it is very mild. I remember more mild Christmases than snowy ones. The weather experts may be able to tell me if that is right?

Off to prepare some veg. love to [nearly] all.salymap

[Anna]

Grey but mild (11), just listened to the R4 Christmas Service, which was very good. I don't recall many snowy Christmasses either. Now to make my phone calls before I set to on sprout duty!

[antongould]

The sun has just come out here and it is very mild. I remember more mild Christmases than snowy ones. The weather experts may be able to tell me if that is right?

Off to prepare some veg. love to [nearly] all.salymap

Good morning and all the very best to you.

I seem to remember many more White ones in my youth and childhood.

Very mild here today in fact we have had hardly any frosts so far this winter - again if boyhood memory serves if there was no snow, "..... earth stood hard as iron....."

[salymap]

Iremember one or two very snowy Christmas hols in the 30s [shock, horror]. In about 1935, when I was 5, the one family car then took us to the Kent coast, with my relative's two Alsation dogs. We all had a lovely time in the snow. Then 1947 and 1963 are years never forgotten. Walking home from work, frozen pipes and no central heating. Does anyone remember those years?