Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you, too!

Anyone do something interesting this Christmas?

I fried a turkey for the first time. (I actually fried 4.) Fried turkey was fantastic, but sitting out side in the mountains of Nagano for 4 hours ... was not.

I cooked a " Chapon" ( big big chicken) What's the name in English? and We've been eating it for 3 days now!!! I won't do it next year!!!🙂

Did the usual eating to excess, and quaffed one or two more than I should have done. Managed to miss dinner with my in-laws and family on Christmas eve having been dragged into a bar by my wife's uncle. Then stayed in bed until 12.00 on Christmas Day with a mild hangover and just about managed to haul my sorry self over to another uncle's for lunch. Still, stayed off the sauce after that for a couple of days and even started jogging again! So at least something good came out of it. Ho ho ho.

Back to Paris after eating too much. Now we're ready for a diet!!
Well a light diet!!! We've been to a Mystery dinner party. As Clive said 🙂in a previous post every guest has to play a character
( by the way I was called Babs Crayfish struggling to make it as an actress ) and my husband was Champagne Charlie . An East End gangster, somewhere between a businessman and thug) Hilarious!! Dominique ( my husband) sounded like Peter Sellers ( Inspector Clousot ) in the Pink Panther movie ( strong French accent ) We really all had fun but the climax was when the hostess lost the instructions of the game we all have to improvise .
Unforgettable Christmas Eve!
Mystery party can be used for classroom ( but for a small group 8 to 10 students ) and for intermediate students.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!

Unforgettable Christmas Eve!
Sorry , I meant unforgettable New Year's Eve!🙂