Finnish Christmas dinner  by boxplayer

Finnish Christmas dinner

At the Finnish Church. Finally got here after a morning of trying to get everything done but failing obviously.

Up early to wrap the mountain of presents which took ages. The only other thing I ticked off was preparing the trifle. T and B helped by cooking a couple of accompaniments - cranberry sauce and cauliflower cheese. No joy on their car key saga.

Arrived at the church in good time and parked in our booked slot round the corner. Met the rest of the party - niece E, and sister S and family. We sat and listened to the service while waiting to be called upstairs for dinner.

We found our table and queued for the buffet. I had a hissy fit as Dave didn't join the queue with us so wasn't ready for the pre-tuck-in group photo annoyingly. The bottle of red wine we opened soon calmed me down and he wasn't that long after.

Usual good spread of salmon and herring, ham for the meat eaters, salads and vegetable casseroles. Followed by Finnish star pastries (joulutortti) and tea/coffee.

Headed home to get stuck into the rest of the tick list - tidying and final cleaning and also making the crackers. That's when I realised I'd bought normal filled ones by mistake. They were surprisingly easy to open up and insert my personalised presents.

Eventually we sat down in front of Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing Christmas special with mulled wine and assorted nibbles. Absolutely zonked, I started falling asleep before it had finished.

Merry Christmas https://365project.org/boxplayer/extras/2024-12-24

24 December 2024
Rotherhithe SE16
A lovely day Ayla & now ready for today! Happy Christmas to you all. Mort & Whitehouse was a bit different last night but excellent as always!
December 25th, 2024  
Hyvää Joulua, Merry Chrismas.
December 25th, 2024  
So cosy
December 25th, 2024  
Merry Christmas! A wonderful group capture.
December 25th, 2024  
What a feast! Did you fin(n)ish it all off? Merry Christmas!
December 25th, 2024  
A lovely happy shot! A Merry Christmas to you and all those who you love!

Ian
December 25th, 2024  
Merry Christmas, Ayla! (hope you don't mind that I saw your name on Pat's posting and thought it would be nice to address you by name!)
December 25th, 2024  
Happy Christmas !
December 25th, 2024  
Very happy pic.......lots of good cheer.
December 25th, 2024  
A happy shot, merry Christmas.
December 25th, 2024  
Merry Christmas! What a happy capture.
December 25th, 2024  
Great joyous smiles, food, wine and glad you calmed down. I do the same! Alya, now I know your pretty name.
December 26th, 2024  
Lovely smile all round. I've known your actual name for a while but haven't used it as I assumed there was a reason that it wasn't widely known but if you are ok with it, I'll start to use it.
December 26th, 2024  
Great photo of the group; Merry Christmas
December 26th, 2024  
Wonderful fun shot. Merry Christmas
December 26th, 2024  
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