Yesterday we held our annual Mulled Wine, Mince Pies and Christmas Carols party. It’s a couple of hours of Englishness in our little part of Switzerland. Over the years I’ve moved the party from before Christmas to after – a lot of people are away skiing, but those who aren’t generally have time and seem to enjoy coming along …..and all the stress is over, so it’s nice to have something to fill the gap between Christmas and the New Year.

We drink mulled wine and spiced apple punch – both prepared to my own special recipes (which involve a lot of arbitrary chucking in of ingredients and test tasting!!) We eat mince pies, shortbread and Christmas cake along with savouries such as sausage rolls, Delia’s palmiers and bruscetta with pesto and goats cheese, plus a dip which this year was guacamole – so didn’t fit with the theme at all but was all eaten up, so it must have been OK!

And we finish off with a carol concert thanks to my wonderful friend Charla and her family and our hastily assembled choir of willing teenagers (the unwilling ones ran away!).

So I guess that’s Christmas finished for this year! I hope you had a good one!

Helen

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