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He remembers and forgives you! We missed you! The tree is giving people flashbacks and fits. Have a happy and may I see you in the new year!

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No plums?

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Thanks for this sweet peek into your holiday tradition. Happy holidays, Pat!

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And you too, friend! Snug in Pie Cottage with your new furry friend and son next door!

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Mary and I really enjoyed this post. Hope you have a very Merry Xmas!

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And you, too! I look forward to a new year full of your thoughtful necessary posts!

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That beautiful tree deserves your husbands loving attention to details and very pretty lights! Thank you for sharing it! And for the Christmas pudding recipe. I see a gill is about 1/2 cup or an English teacup full. All news to me. And what do you use for the 3/4 lb. of mixed peels? Perhaps saving-up Grapefruit, Orange and Little Halo peels in the freezer for this pudding? :-)

Merry Christmas to you and your husband and family, Pat!

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I have been informed that I underestimated the number of lights--he's going to clarify if it's 1360 or an even 1600. And they say he's the sane one! If I know I'm making my pudding, I thinly slice rinds of lemons, oranges, those beautiful little halo, and even pomegranates through the month. I don't know if the last adds anything but it's very pretty. Merry Christmas, to all of your family! And thank you for showing me so many ways to live!

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What a beautiful tree! I had to look up treacle and gill brandy. Thank you for helping to educate me!

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I should have told about the very long discussion that occurs around buying trees. Poor tree sellers to get us! I guess I should have translated them . Gill is actually a measurement. Have a great holiday friend!!

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Such fun! Merry Christmas to you Pat! And a happy new year 🎊

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You too! And a big hug for everything!

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Nope. Just suet

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Also, that plum pudding scene would have been exquisitely difficult for Dickens to read in public, after he smashed his own domestic happiness by taking off with a teenage actress in 1858, and making any further homey scenes with Catherine impossible…the very same Catherine Dickens who published a cookbook!

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I remember telling Chris how I thought Dickens must have hated Christmas Carol, and the incredulous reaction he gave me! But I am a Christmas Memory partisan, which is the Christmas story for neurodivergent people. It’s also about 1/5th as long as Christmas Carol. The tree is magnificent, however.

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