Sunday, December 04, 2005

Christmas begins


Today we went to the Christmas markets in Manchester. We had a german steak burger, a cup of something-wein (can't pronounce it but it was hot mulled wine with blueberries), then a cup of somethingelse-wein (as before but with cherries) and THEN a cup of cider punch which sounds vile but was so lovely we bought two bottles of the stuff. Also got some posh fudge, some dutch cheese ("for those about to rock - cheese!" as the dutch bloke selling it said when he saw my ACDC tshirt) and we kept the cups the something-weins came in as well.
The markets looked like the above (I don't know who the people are!)
Oh yes, and I also got The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on dvd, and Lionheart by Kate Bush. And a fantastic book of 60s adverts, more of which later.

Here is him indoors agog with desire at the huge pile of olives and garlic....

And the world's OLDEST baby Jesus....

A MASSIVE Father Christmas (sorry - can never get the hang of all this "Santa" business)


3 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:54 PM

    I'm glad your Christmas has waited until now to start - around these parts it's been going on since August!

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  2. The photos won't load all the way for my viewing pleasure! Dammit!

    Been focusing on solstice and avoiding christmas...over here, xmas is a blood sport of which I don't want to participate in..xx

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  3. sorted the half picture thing out - note to self. do NOT upload un resized pictures.....

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