Things I like everso...


This list will be ongoing for several reasons:

• I like billions of things
• I am terrible at remembering things I like 
• I change my mind quite a lot 

Here we go with the first 10...

1. Raindrops on roses
2. Whiskers on kitten

Oh no, hold on, those two things come under the category of 'musicals' and therefore are on entirely the wrong list.  They should be on the 'things I can't stand' list and will have to wait until a later date.  

Start again, in no particular order (apart from the first one, obviously).

1. My children
2. My new computer - really quite extraordinary and will feature on here sometime in the near future
3. Our cats, although they can be intensely annoying at times
4. My imaginary dog - it's probably a beagle but has been known to be a retriever
5. My imaginary horse - it's very cheap to keep
6. My imaginary penguin - I've had problems with this one on account of the climate and lack of large pond in the garden
7. The children's rabbits, particularly today because they staged a mini protest and broke out of their hutch in the night so they could skip around on the white-frosty lawn being naughty.  I like that in a rabbit.  I forgot to take pictures because I was so entranced by the fluffy sight them.  I also failed to put them back for several hours because they seemed to be having a lot of fun.  One should never deny a rabbit its fun.
8. Music.  One day I'll do a top 20.  It will be very hard because anyone who knows me also knows there are at least 200 songs in my top 20.  It would be more useful to list my top 20 songs today... tomorrow could be an entirely different 20.
9. Cars - they're brilliant!  I especially like cars with working heaters, which mine has, as of today. Obviously I like the other bits to work as well.
10. Snow

EversoChristmas!

Hohoho.

And stuff.

No traditional British Christmas celebration is complete without traditional festive food.  Here, for your perusal, is a selection of mine.  At least one of them is traditionally British.

Christmas cake.  I actually don't like it.  I like the marzipan and the icing but the cake, in my humble opinion, is pretty disgusting.  When I was small my brothers wouldn't let me have the good bit unless I ate the yukky bit.  One of the pleasures of being grown-up is that I can go to all the trouble of making the cake just so I can surreptitiously slide it into the bin when I've finished picking off the icing.
This year mine shows an idyllic village scene, complete with  giant-sized Christmas tree and twinkly star.

And now for the gingerbread house. This year, I have mostly been concentrating on the technical aspects of gingerbread house construction.  As you can see, this house is lit.  Very pleased with this.  What you don't see is the mass of wires and pins inside the roof, holding the whole thing together.  But we don't mind about that, right?  As long as no-one tries to eat it.

And nothing says Christmas like burgers and hot-dogs.  These particular burgers and hot-dogs are entirely made from marzipan.  I decided to dispense with the usual frosted marzipan fruits and make these instead and, I'm sure you'll agree, they add a cosmopolitan (if not highly sophisticated) touch to the proceedings.

Merry Christmas!