Food...!!!!! Again!!!

I seem to be doing a lot of blogging this week - I'm clearly filled with the urge to blog. I wanted to add something to my thoughts on food.

Christmas is coming. You can tell this because not just the goose is getting fat, so are the magazine shelves, bulging with what can only be described as near pornographic food magazines. I was in ye old Sadsbury's yesterday, and they bulged with a near conscious desire to leap from their shelves and into my trolley. I was resisting. And I actually managed to get out of there without buying a single one, although I will probably pay for this later in the week by buying three. However I noticed one or two things.
Firstly they are all coming with attached recipe calendar for the new year. Ha Ha! I've already bought mine, and food is the last thing on it's pages.
Secondly, I've got a family to cook for this Xmas. And I am planning already. We'll be a bit smaller this year than on others - Jo and her husband are planning on being away, so there will just be mother, the brothers and myself, which makes a bit of a change. Being fewer, we will need less, which means I can spend a bit more time and effort on what I actually do - fun eh? I expect this will be a running theme over the next few months - what, when how etc. Just to say now, for all the complaining that I expect I will be doing, because I do the same year in year out, I do love it. I love the planning, the cooking etc - just not quite so keen on the actual buying. Shops are hell at this time of year. Absolute hell.