Diary summary week ending 10th December

[BumbleB]

Yorkshire pudding - all three courses.  Starter with gravy, then with the meat and veg and then for pudding spread with jam.     Waste not, want not.

[Jebber]

Yorkshire pudding with gravy before the meat course was also done down south, not just in Yorkshire. I remember from my childhood, visiting relatives in north Dorset and in Kent.

I disliked it as a young child, but it was the first thing I learned to make, just from watching my mother. I tried making one to surprise her one day, it rose so high it stuck to the roof of the oven. After that it was always my job to make the Yorkshire pudding.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Now now, Viktoria, as I'm that Yorkshire woman who posted the comment about blood from a stone, I do get quite fed up with various technicians saying how reluctant I am to part with my blood. So I remind them as a good Yorkshirewoman, it's not my way to part with anything! -But I'll try that tip from KGarrad, about  the pint of water before, see if it works for me.
Got to knuckle down to the dreaded task of writing - and posting - Christmas cards this weekend. Even with four fewer this year than last, still looks like a mammoth list, especially as many need letters with them.
Ah well, sharpen up my roller ball pen....
TY

[louisa maud]

I have posted a good  majority of my cards, just got a couple  to have letters included, they are steadily  coming in but I do wonder how many aren't sending cards due to the cost of postage.

Has  anyone had problems with purchasing Christmas stamps,  I have  from an actual post office,  do like Christmas stamps on Christmas cards, not seen a Christmas one yet.

Was a really bright day this morning  albeit chilly with the sun out but it has gone dull  now, not very  long before the lighter nights.

LM

[Viktoria]

I just feel,Lancastrian that I am that Yorkshire is very special and many from the South have no idea of its beauty.
Not spoiled so much as Lancashire was by The Industrial Revolution ,mills etc seemed smaller.
Ours are/were  huge , monsters  by any definition and your amazing countryside seems nearer to the towns as the urban areas  are smaller.
I gasp sometimes watching The Yorkshire Vet and Last of the Summer Wine, no, not  Compo’s trousers ,the countryside  the three overgrown schoolboys roamed in.
Best of luck with the card writing, at my age sadly the list is much shorter  year by year.
Cheerio.Viktoria.

[KGarrad]

Our Christmas Stamps are Manx Winter Wildlife:
Robin
Manx Loaghtan Sheep
Mountain Hare
Puffin
Manx Cat
Seal

[Gillg]

Just sent a card to my nephew in Switzerland - it cost £2.20!  (That might have been because I included his birthday card in the envelope, but I don't think so.)

[BumbleB]

£2.20 appears to be standard.  I sent off 1 card to Australia, 1 to New Zealand, and 1 to Europe, plus an envelope to Europe with 2 cards in it.  All charged at £2.20 each.

[Jebber]

 My cards to Canada and New Zealand were all £2-20, I checked the postage rates and dates on the Royal Mail website, as I have to rely on others to do errands, I wanted to be sure I gave them enough money.

For other  overseas friends and relations we now exchange e-cards, for all birthdays and other occasions.

My second class Christmas stamps I got with my grocery delivery from Sainsbury's,
I did the same last year.

I buy my cards direct from the charity so they get the full benefit, not just  a small percentage that the shops pay them.