Christmas Eve Spirit

When my daughter heard that I had been to Smith's Seafood Stall in Ongar earlier this week, as I expected, she wanted to go. We arranged to go there today from two different directions, keeping it local and buying essentials to follow the Tier 4 regulations. Unfortunately the roads were flooded from her direction and she had to make a big detour. Unfortunate also that by the time she arrived oysters were 'off'. We didn't worry as we both bought fishy delights.

I loved it that she came my way home. We absolutely love driving together in our Honda S2000s. The roads were quite quiet and after a long straight we employed our Lewis late-braking technique. The little puffs of smoke from her exhausts gave me a buzz as she gave it some beans pulling away from the roundabout and when I got a petrolly whiff it brought a lump to my throat. We both agree that we were glad we went out and actually did something for change.

MrQ and I very much enjoyed our Lobster Thermidor. In revolutionary terms the name means ".... a relaxation of tensions, and some return to patterns of life held to be normal." It has given us the Christmas spirit. I hope all you blippers can find the spirit of Christmas in some way too.

When I was photgraphing my meal it reminded me of a sailing holiday in Greece where we met a few generations of a famous bed-making family. We were very much amused when one of the female members asked if she could be photographed with MrQ's lobster meal.