@mikejwhelan I have followed your story for months and I am heartbroken that you and your lovely wife are going through this. I hope my husband cares for me like you are caring for your wife whem my time comes .xx
One of my newly married friends visited us with her husband.
He was asking questions, trying to get to know everyone better. Everything felt normal.
Then one friend mentioned she has three sisters: she just completed her MTech, one is settled in the UAE, and the third runs their family business.
He paused and asked, “Do you have a brother?”
She replied, “No. We are only three sisters.”
He said, “I feel very sorry for you. What will happen to your vansh (family lineage) in the future?”
The room went silent.
She was shocked.
She later said no one in her own family had ever spoken to her like that.
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 DRUNK AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over 😂
Merry feckin Christmas!
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@ItsLesleyFergs@S_A_Somerville I did exactly that when I was 58 ! Dwp still showed 60 as retirement age ,it didn't update their info .I worked for DWP at the time ,I didn't get a letter !