Christmas Order Deadlines

[Techno]

Good to see you're all getting into the festive spirit!

I hope everyone has their sprouts simmering away, by now.
Mmmmmm....Tasty.

Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

It's still OCTOBER 

Be grateful you are not in the Philippines, Christmas starts 1^st September and I mean home decorations and carollers started

It runs until Epiphany, with short breaks for All Saints & All Souls days and New Years eve

[Wulf]

I hope everyone has their sprouts simmering away, by now.

I have heated seats in my car if that counts... The heater goes to 5... never tried it beyond 3...

[Orcs]

I hope everyone has their sprouts simmering away, by now.
Mmmmmm....Tasty.

Cheers - Phil

Have you decided which of your animals you are going to eat this Christmas 

[petercooman]

Have you decided which of your animals you are going to eat this Christmas 

Usually the one who doesn't get in the barn when he yells at the flock.

That'll teach the disobedient bugger 

[Techno]

Have you decided which of your animals you are going to eat this Christmas 

There's still a massive chunk of beef, we were given recently, still sitting in the freezer*.....I think the animals can regard them selves as safe. 

(*I wish I'd cut it up into steaks before it went in there.)

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

I have one word for you - chainsaw. 

[paulr]

Most butchers have a meat saw, like a band saw

Perhaps if you ask nicely...

Make sure you ask them to do it, not to borrow the saw

[d_Guy]

fsn - blowing the soot from the exhaust pipes of his diesel powered Linotype, taking a first, tentative sniff of model airplane glue ( best grade) and flexing those parts of his body that defy discription. All this while squinting at the lambs and Komondor as they frolic on the blasted plaines of Runcorn. The Yule Magum Opus is at hand and all's right with the world!

[Techno]

I have one word for you - chainsaw. 

Maybe not. 

Most butchers have a meat saw, like a band saw
Perhaps if you ask nicely...
Make sure you ask them to do it, not to borrow the saw

That's a good thought Paul.  ...Though we do own a circular chop-saw. (Unsurprisingly, I'm not allowed to use that...even under supervision.)

Stupidly.......My initial thought, when we were given this large chunk of meat was to freeze it.....thaw it....cut it...then freeze it again, until it was pointed out to me that that wasn't a very good idea, unless I wanted to eventually give myself food poisoning. 

It's way too big to thaw..... then cook in the oven for a single meal, (we'd be eating beef sandwiches for weeks....or until we got food poisoning...again) which is why I plonked it in the freezer in the first place......I'm not wasting it on the dogs. 

Cheers - Phil

[Sandinista]

Forget Christmas, I'm counting down the days until Salute where I can pick up some toys in person 

Cheers
Ian

[fsn]

fsn - blowing the soot from the exhaust pipes of his diesel powered Linotype, taking a first, tentative sniff of model airplane glue ( best grade) and flexing those parts of his body that defy discription. All this while squinting at the lambs and Komondor as they frolic on the blasted plaines of Runcorn. The Yule Magum Opus is at hand and all's right with the world!

Ah! 'tis but partially true. I usually don't know what I'm going to write until I write it. Also, since the accidental release of a "probably not harmful" agent by ICI in 1981, sheep in the Runcorn area have turned both carniverous and sociopathic. They have an odd way of force feeding Komondors with mint before devouring them. They also shave themselves so from a distance they resemble giant poodles then - snap - you're a lamb dinner!

[FierceKitty]

I have one word for you - chainsaw. 

NOT until the Aztecs are safely delivered to Krung Thep.

[Techno]

Don't worry about the chainsaw......I was far too close to falling backwards onto a kitchen knife, and stabbing myself in the kidneys, a couple of nights ago.
JUST had time to stop myself breaking my fall with my left hand, which was holding said knife.

(Shouldn't have been using a knife to help re-set the boiler...and I shouldn't have been squatting down in front of the boiler with a pair of very loose slippers on.....Nearly big OOPS !)

Cheers - Got away with it again.

[d_Guy]

NOT until the Aztecs are safely delivered to Krung Thep.

+1 - with a parcel to the backwoods also.