Christmas trees...

...just beginning to become a blur as they spin in the updraft from the tealight.

An evening that didn't go all all to plan! And one of those evenings to boot.

I'd intended to measure out the ingredients for the Christmas cake, puddings and mincemeat and soak the fruit for the puddings in alcohol (far too late, but better late than never as they say!) ready to make the puddings tomorrow and the mincemeat and cake on Christmas eve. Not to be.

While I was at work, MrM invited one of his musician friends and his wife round for the evening. Managed to get the fruit ready to soak overnight for the puddings before they arrived (45 mins early - aargh!), but that's all.  And no time to do anything when they left, well after midnight. The mincemeat will have to wait until after Christmas and, I suspect, the cake will be my birthday cake.