Christmas strikes again.  As usual, I am not feeling at all festive or excited about it.  It's also about 20° warmer than it was this time last year, and obviously no snow, so it doesn't "look like xmas" either.  Quite why everyone thinks it should be snowy is a bit beyond me anyway, given that this is the UK and that rarely ever happens...

A week off work is always good though - now all I have to do is finalise which days I'm doing which exciting things on (climbing, kayaking, etc etc) and actually decide New Year plans.

But anyway, I do have some pretty lights in my flat (and the festive chicken is hung up somewhere too):

The past few weekends I've been busy in the kitchen - any excuse for a bit of baking!  I've done chocolate coated pretzels, mince tarts, cherry and marzipan cupcakes, more mince pies (using chocolate mincemeat that my father claims is "sacrilege".  he's half right), and my usual favourite xmas cake ever - a marzipan and mincemeat tea bread.  So yummy!

But fear not, I haven't eaten them all by myself and become a total fatty - they've also been inflicted on assorted friends and colleagues.   (I won't mention all the chocolates, biscuits etc that we've had at work as well.  Or the giant turkey+trimmings (and salad, what's that all about?) sandwich that took me half an hour to consume today.  oops)

Healthy eating is officially on hold until 2012...!

tags: food xmas