I've ordered a large Capon, I don't like Turkey and a large joint of Beef Fillet. Yes I ordered locally to be delivered Christmas Eve 

I haven't got a flippin clue,  and no I haven't ordered it.

I normally get an invite out to either my brother and sis in law's or one of my nieces. One of them has just separated from her hubby though, so I really don't know what's happening.

I must get myself into gear and realise Christmas is coming! Not organised one bit

Can you still get Capons?

My Mum always used to get a capon

I'm looking forward to this year, having a vegetarian Christmas lunch ... made for me,.... mmm can't wait  actually.

Yep Issy, a local farmer does them and I always had to drive to his farm Christmas eve, but now my Son in law gets me them, he's a manager of a fresh meat supplier, but they are bought in locally 

I'm rushing to get things online Amazon etc. 
Still only half way through. I don't feel organised in the slightest. 

I always say i will wrap pressies beginning of December but it never happens.

I have a duck in the freezer and have also ordered a brace of pheasants for Christmas Eve.

I havea  caponiser round here somewhere....it was my dads.

Glad someone else like me Eve! I actually quite enjoy rushing around the last minute, in a strange sort of way, it feels more Christmassy

I hesitate to ask... but what is a caponiser?

Will you have your Xmas dinner Christmas Eve? Is that a German tradition?

Its an injection thing that you put tablet thingies in and inject into the young chickens to turn them from cockerels into capons....castrated cocks more or less

Are you making Christmas lunch yourself?  I'm terrible i make a lovely dinner, but Christmas i have always have left it to someone else. 

I'm too busy picking  50 tonnes of wrapping paper up all day..someone's got to do it

I get more excited than the kids in the morning.

Ohhh - I have always wondered how that happened!

Oh dear

I would put a pic up but i can't find one on the net anywhere and i don;t know where the thing is....not seen it for ages.

Slightly OT sorry, but I'm thinking about having peeps at my house for boxing day this year. I haven't had anyone here since mam died 9 years ago. I was gonna have them last year but due to unforseen circs (me having to rush down to Sheffield for a week's induction for a new job) things got way behind and I just didn't have the heart for christmas last year.


I've since sold the dining room table though and am panicking that I wouldn't have anything to put the buffet on  and also.............would I be in a fit state after christmas day/night  

Aww sprout, dont worry its the people that matter around you not the food etc. My daughter got thru this year with a cancer scare, i feel lucky to have her, and beans on toast would do us

Do you have a garden table?

Well sweetheart if you feel up to it, why not. You don't have to have loads of food and you could even ask people to bring some nibbles along - a sort of tear and share.

But if you don't want to,then don't..no one will mind or think less of you,

Nice post Issy. and i agree

go for it Sprout  Hair of the dog and all that, you can always put the buffet on the bed 

But there's still 4 weeks to go until Christmas - that's loads of time to get organised!

Sky,


Croc, no I don't. I only have a small garden (as mam would have said) the size of two hankies knotted together    I could prolly get my hands on a pasting table though, and I've got a nest of tables
Anyway, I've hijacked the thread....sorry Issy............back on track folks

Yes indeed Growly !  What you up to this Christmas? Is McCririck coming for lunch

Mine would go on the floor 

Do whatever feels ok with you Sprouty 

Or lay it out on the kitchen worktops!

Oh that would be wonderful *swoon*  and even more wonderful if he had to share me with Wagner.      But I suppose I'll have to make do with Mr G instead 

Sprout, go for it!!  That's my tradition, we go to my mom's on Christmas morning because she makes the best bacon sandwiches EVER!!, then come back and do my veg because my turkey crown has been cooked on Christmas Eve, eat Christmas dinner, have a nap then go to my sister in laws for Christmas tea.

Boxing day everyone comes to us and TBH my dining table isn't very big because there is only 3 of us, so I got a wallpaper pasting table, cover it over with a Christmassy tablecloth and put it safe against the wall and lay my buffet out on that and touch wood, nothing has happened to it!

I haven't even started present shopping yet.  The person I am most struggling with to buy  pressies for this year is Mr Pink ~ I have no idea what to buy him.  Every year I say that I am going to be more organised for Christmas, but every year I end up rushing round in the last 2 weeks before Christmas and love it!

We do, present too, but my daughter would like it the British way, so we have a nice meal on Christmas Eve and one present and the rest on Christmas day. It's all about compromise and I've been in Britain for too long to object anyway.

Thats nice Cologne

Thanks everyone    I'll sound my peeps out about boxing day and see if I can get hold of a pasting table.   Now get back to the OP's title and answers please   I'm embarrassed that I've hijacked her thread

It was completely relevant Pam - all about xmas meal preparations 

But that is the BEST of both worlds which can only be a good thing.

We go out for Christmas lunch ... I have just ordered:

Vegetarian canapes
Smoked salmon and prawns
Fillet steak
Trio of belgian chocolate desserts
Cheese and biscuits

Pam

Don't just think about it - do it - you'll have a great time





We always go to my family for dinner and OH's at New Year.
Traditional Xmas dinner apart from turkey for me

We have also bought one of Delia Smith's christmas cake packs from Waitrose which I will ruin make for Xmas day.

Yum