Nic Best

Mum of 2 boys, wife of Mr Best, TA working with some amazing SEN children, Governor at a local primary school.

[karen thompson @karenfthompson]

Right then here goes... ANNUAL RANT ALERT!!
Triggered by adverts and TV chefs😠😠
Christmas Dinner....
I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs...
It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!!
We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not!
Here goes...
1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un!
Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over it’s cooked!
2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a shit load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)
What you need is Paxo and a kettle!!
If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking 😉.
3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell....
Gravy granules Jamie.... All you need is gravy granules!
I ( nor any other woman I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy 😠😠😠
4. Vegetables... Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough!
5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same 😉.
6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl!
(oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!)
7. Family....
Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace!
Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc.
And Finally.....
NO ONE....
And I mean no one
APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over 😂

Merry feckin Christmas!

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@LeeBraganza No, definitely not. Every child is different. My eldest was 7, and the youngest was 5 when they were dry at night. At 7 i was beginning to get worried but suddenly the pull ups were dry.

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@PookyH Billy Joel - River of Dreams album. I think it resonated with me in the early 90's and still does. I can't really explain it.

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@EmmaDee77 @DeputyGrocott I do this. It definitely works for me. My favourite categories are countries and names

[Matt Oldfield @footieheroesbks]

Right, time for a Football GOAT giveaway, I reckon! To be in with a chance of winning a signed copy of Messi v. Ronaldo, just RT + follow. Good luck! #readingforpleasure #kidslit #Giveaway #footballbooks

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@NatsWoodward I have a similar picture i took of my Mum holding my hand in her last few days. She held our hands a lot in the final days. It's one of my favourites.

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@twinklresources One for luck

[Twinkl Resources @twinklresources]

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To be in with a chance to #win, simply:

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[Matt Oldfield @footieheroesbks]

To celebrate the mighty Saints going up and the end of the club football season, let's do a #bookgiveaway! Just FOLLOW + RT to be in with a chance of winning a signed copy of Road to the Euros #readingforpleasure #euro2024 #kidsbooks #footballbooks

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@ECWilsonWriter 40 -50

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@afcbournemouth @Dafabet @samuelb3212 or @zach_best06 or i just give them both tickets rather than choose between them!

[AFC Bournemouth 🍒 @afcbournemouth]

For the last time this season, it's @Dafabet giveaway time! 🙌

They're offering five pairs of tickets for Saturday's game with Brentford 🍒

To enter to win a pair, simply share this post and reply with who you would take to the game!

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[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@afcbournemouth @premierleague These were my social media posts that night. My now 17 year old was 8... We're fairly sure he slept in a full Bournemouth kit that night!

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@afcbournemouth @Dafabet @zach_best06

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@afcbournemouth @Dafabet @samuelb3212

[AFC Bournemouth 🍒 @afcbournemouth]

Zaba knows the drill! 🙌

@Dafabet have five pairs of tickets to giveaway for Sunday's game 🎟️

Just RT this post and tell us who you'd bring in order to enter to win a pair 🔥

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[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@afcbournemouth @Dafabet @samuelb3212

[AFC Bournemouth 🍒 @afcbournemouth]

Who wants to come to the game with Manchester United thanks to @Dafabet? 👏

To be in with a chance of winning one of four pairs of tickets, just retweet this post and tell us who you'd bring to the game! 🤗

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[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@clhubes Keep going, it gets easier. Ours are now 14 and 17, and we still always
sit at the table for tea. ( We only do it for that one meal, though) we have been through spilled drinks, toddlers falling asleep in their tea, tantrums, picky eaters, food everywhere! Keep going! 😊

[Nic Best @76_twintwo]

@76_TwinOne

[With Love, JerLisa Nicole @JerLisa_Nicole]

I believe that 1/3rd of the twin population is actually living as their sibling and don’t know it. Like they got switched during bath time and never went back.