Merry Christmas!!
It was a busy Christmas day! It started with an evening service at the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, we didn’t realise that the 9.30pm service was in Gurune. However, it was still nice to go and listen to a couple of carols in English, some drumming and a sermon in Gurune. The church – which isn’t small – was packed and had as many people outside as in, wrapped up in blankets from the cold (maybe about 18 degrees). We sat on a wall beside all the motorbikes. I wish I’d taken my camera but decided to not cart around things I didn’t need, not knowing how busy Bolga would be and how easy it’d be to get home afterwards.
After a night sleeping on the roof, we had breakfast and went to Mama Laadi’s. However, the children were at church, so we gave Mama Laadi some celebrations, had a nice cup of tea and went back to my house to start cooking – not nearly so stressful as I’d imagined… in fact I was on several occasions worried that we’d forgotten something vital. We had a little stress when we realised the power’d been off for a good 25 mins and we’d not noticed, then settled to eat.
Christmas dinner was: roast chicken, roast guinea fowl, carrots, green beans, bread sauce, stuffings (basil, parsley, thyme and onion (R and H); apricot, apple, sausage and groundnut (D)), roast potatoes, sweet potato chips, sausage, papaya chutney, D’s mum’s gravy, roast onions. We also made Christmas cookies, Damien made a pineapple dessert, and we had prawn crackers… multicoloured prawn crackers. After dinner, we watched “It’s a Wonderful Life”, sang carols and watched “Yes Minister” and spoke to family.
A pretty good Christmas J.
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