They're changing cloths at Cootards' 'Palace'...

Mmm - doesn't quite scan (again!). This is being posted by the Bogger Scheduler so not sure it will work correctly -  if you actually read this on Christmas Day I will be doubly amazed! I trust that the day is going well for your good self - that you are quaffing the cooking sherry and watching Rolf Harris visiting the children's hospital....At this precise moment I have possibly  been up for a good two hours and thinking about going back to bed!

Here are some of my Christmas tablecloths - I will make a note for 2013 to show the embroidered ones then.  Can you see top left a trolley complete with cooking sherry?  I will post about that if time allows. 

This one shows breakfast last year - I used a ruler to measure the space between settings.








 NO I DIDN'T!!  I can't believe that you thought I did!!!  I saw you nodding sagely and whispering to yourself: 'Yes. Of course.  I do just the same.  Christmas isn't Christmas without the regulation distance'


.....Have you been watching 'Claridges'?

That said I do like a nicely laid table. A bit of oo'ing and ahh'ing at breakfast time - this is emitted mainly soley from myself  - can't believe that people just want to EAT!

Some Edwardian plates (local church fair again - £2 the lot), 60s mugs, 60s table runner , 70s Angel chimes (I have owned several of these over the years - all bought locally ranging from £1 to £3.00 - some from the 1940s in a lovely box which I think I still have....somewhere) - its good to mix it all up. A beautiful, "difficult to photograph and do it justice", Irish linen double damask tablecloth - phew!  I do not care a fig for bits needing to be of a certain time period - so long as it looks nice it is welcome...

Replete with my favourite vintage table runner (we love it don't we Cindy ;)).  I will have to do a separate posting on deers!

Never throw an old tin away - the lid of this one is all rusty but it is fine with some old plastic holly (I think...)

For last year's dinner I chose these two lovely tablecloths -

I see that the candles on the Angel Chimes have burnt down low and they are very tricky to replace!!  I will have to double check stocks for this year.

Starry cups and saucers for Christmas (6 sets at the car boot for £4 - so I HAD to buy them...)

 Pensive...

Having a nice tablecloth on the table helps to distract from any cooking disastahs dahling!

Not the ruddy  lanterns again!!!!

 I see that there is a different tablecloth in this photo - 2013 - the year of the tablecloth clear out!

Ending with Brussel Sprouts - of course - why wouldn't you.

I LOVE sprouts.

Good for the bowels and taste luverly. A great combo

Not for nothing was I known as the 'Bowel Queen' (a moniker that I was justly proud of) when I was a nurse on the wards - patrolling and checking that EVERYONE (including relatives if they were in the vicinity) had had their bowels open. Rapidly dispensing the lactulose to anyone (including relatives if they were in the vicinity) with a hint of sluggish bowel movement.

Have you seen 'Carry on Nurse'....?

Just joking about the relatives - I would have the decency to wait until they had left the bedside....ha ha

Thank you for a fun year

Tuck in

PS I had to make a private announcement to the Eco Ethel who won the giveaway because at that time I could not bloggity blog - very sorry.  To make amends I promise to have another give away sooner rather than later