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Christmas 2019
Yes, so sad. Can’t Trump’s toxic base give us just one day a year of respite from their relentless hate speech? To me it’s even worse when they dress it up as humor and try to make it part of a holiday that celebrates the spirit of love and community.
Here are some of my favorite responses (courtesy of Raw Story and Huffington Post):
Huzzah, the ham is in.
Cooking it with garnet yams, white sweet potatoes, cosmic crisp apples and a red pear, blackberry mead, mulled cherry wine, coconut oil, ginger syrup, crushed rosemary, kosher and hickory smoked salt, lavender, Saigon cinnamon, pomegranate molasses, an orange-ginger spice mix, and maple bacon to seal it in.
Mele Kalikimaka, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanza, Happy Yule, and general blessings to one and all.
@Windthin yum, I also roasted my ham with pears. Pears and cranberries with a cinnamon ginger honey brown-sugar glaze.
Nice! Tomorrow I am making my infamous cranberry sauce muffins, where I make fresh cranberry sauce and fold it into muffins to get this:
Here are three versions:
mmmm yummy But here it is the middle of summer. So yesterday our xmas lunch was cold lamb and salad followed by pavlova berries and ice-cream with a glass of white wine.
The New Zealand Xmas tree. The Pohutakawa is in flower now. This is taken from the bach* window. Its 3 mins down to the beach and 10 mins back.
BTW it’s an excellent swimming beach, protected by a reef and a tor from the open sea.
- bach 2 |batʃ| informal
verb [ no obj. ] Austral./NZ
(especially of a man) live alone and do one’s own cooking and housekeeping: _Baldy bached in a hut down the road a bit_ .
nounNZ
a small holiday house.
Yes, I am definitely crying. Beautiful.
It’s so dusty in here.
Found the Youtube version for easier sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAxgscOh86o
The title is “Thursday Appointments”, rooted in a practice of going on Thursdays to leave flowers at graves. It was made by a 20-year-old Iranian and won the Luxor Film Festival.
@Pet_Proletariat, “Let me interrupt your expertise with my confidence.” - Ha! Reminded me of this one: