The boys, opening their stockings:
This was the view from the kitchen window - a white Christmas.
My master list for cooking the meal:
The drinks chilling outside in the below-zero weather:
The food we had:
1 - gammon (ham) which our guests brought
2 - roasted new potatoes
3 - Yorkshire puddings
4 - roasted butternut squash
5 - chippolata sausages
6 - stuffing balls
7 - Brussels sprouts
8 - steamed broccoli
9 - roast chicken
10 - roast lamb
11 - steamed carrots
For dessert we had rocky road (with shortbread, marshmallows and Brazil nuts) and individual raspberry trifles:
