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citsncycles · Post by **citsncycles** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:03 pm

I used to enjoy Christmas - then I got a job at a dairy.

Now the run up to Christmas is full of trying to meet the huge cream orders for the supermarkets, followed by all the staff not directly involved with our milk intake, butter production or skim dryer calling me a miserable bugger for not joining the Christmas eve party while I work a good 14 hrs in the hope that I don't have to go back in on Christmas day (it doesn't always work).
Boxing day is then filled with catching up after having Christmas day off (not everyone is as lucky as me to have as much time off!), and getting abusive phone calls from transport managers who's tankers only ever deliver to us over christmas (as the site they normally deliver to is closed) and who all think they should get top priority over the other 40 odd tankers that have been waiting anything up to a day to tip!

Mind you, I do then get New Year off, when I go to Ireland to visit the twerlies

Nowadays I tell everyone that want's to get me something that the best thing they can do is swear off cream for Christmas, and to keep a thought & give thanks to all those people who work through Christmas to keep the shops stocked, the lights lit, and above all, the country safe!!!

& if you think that's a rant, don't start me on the shops that start putting out the Christmas stock as soon as the summer holidays finish

electrokid · Post by **electrokid** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:47 am

i love port,

If you like port then you'll probably enjoy Mavrodaphne of Patras red sweet Greek wine

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:02 am

electrokid wrote:
i love port,
If you like port then you'll probably enjoy Mavrodaphne of Patras red sweet Greek wine

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Mothman · Post by **Mothman** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:22 am

Sauterne is also a very sweet wine, best with puddings. I believe it was Napoleon Bonaparte's fave tipple.

Andy

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:26 am

A bottle of port used to be my Christmas tradition. After lunch I'd sit down and drink the whole bottle all to myself because no one else liked it

Hic

electrokid · Post by **electrokid** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:35 pm

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Four or five quid from Waitrose - I think I've seen it in other supermarkets as well.

I was at a neighbour's barbeque a while back and I was sitting and sipping (that should be in the health and safety instructions because it can go straight to the knees

) when next door neighbour Mike was seen striding very purposefully up the lawn and past me - I didn't know where he was going and neither did he

Mike suddenly turned to me and said 'It's a bit like port' after which he returned to his purposeful striding.

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Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:31 pm

I thankyew kind sir. Trip to Waitrose coming up!

electrokid · Post by **electrokid** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:28 pm

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It's £5.85 !

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My pleasure

KevR · Post by **KevR** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:24 pm

Matusalem Oloroso Muy Viejo sherry by Gonzalez Byass is what you want - pricey and bit hard to track down but absolutely stunning flavour - spicey christmas pud in a glass!

RxBX · Post by **RxBX** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:43 pm

Grenman wrote:Sauterne is also a very sweet wine, best with puddings. I believe it was Napoleon Bonaparte's fave tipple.
Andy

Linegeist wrote:I thankyew kind sir. Trip to Waitrose coming up!

KevR wrote:Matusalem Oloroso Muy Viejo sherry by Gonzalez Byass is what you want - pricey and bit hard to track down but absolutely stunning flavour - spicey christmas pud in a glass!

Evening Gent's,
Could'nt help thinking about a couple of Friday's ago when Kylie Minogue was on the one show and there was discussion about the price of a Heston Blumenthal's Hidden Orange Christmas Pudding from Waitrose which originally retailed for £13.99 for a 1.2 Kg pudding (Which are actually made just up the road from me by MATTHEW WALKER) which they mentioned where selling on E-Bay for up £350

I then did a search at the time for these XMAS puds which some where being listed for up £20,000 and one I manged to find thro' the completed listing's which had actually sold for £750 !

So for today's listed availability of these XMAS PUD'S (Dearest first) note the first one who's currently had 40 offers

and for the COMPLETED listing's , are they really selling for that much ?

Complete madness if they really are !

philhod · Post by **philhod** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:52 pm

Bottled up 6 dry white 12 med dry rosé and 6 dryish red.
Sampled at bottling proved highly acceptable.

They will have improved in the 8 weeks they have been down, so the missis will be err unsober most of the time.

Me? Oh I will be away in Scandinavia drinking Lager and wodka

Way2go · Post by **Way2go** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:57 pm

philhod wrote: They will have improved in the 8 weeks they have been down, so the missis will be err unsober most of the time.

Me? Oh I will be away in Scandinavia drinking Lager and wodka

Why isn't the missis allowed to accompany you on this festive trip then?

Post by **docchevron** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:45 am

/\ because it would then be less festive obviousley!

Way2go · Post by **Way2go** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:41 am

Dunno, she sounds quite festive getting merry on wine.

rayfenwick · Post by **rayfenwick** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:15 pm

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. That goes for god-botherers, atheists, miserable bastards, sociopaths..even those with hydropneumatically-suspended psychological disturbances