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Further Christmas Things

8 December, 2020
Posted in: Cork, Ireland, Mr. Waffle

I ordered a present from an online shop which had been recommended to me. The owner’s name seemed familiar. I thought that she and her husband may have sat beside us at an arty Christmas extravaganza a number of years ago. This was just as well as I managed to put in the wrong email address on my order. I emailed the helpdesk and said that I thought we’d met. I got this lovely email back:

Hi Anne,Thanks for getting in touch and for ordering with us. I hope X loves her [present]! That was such a great night in Henrietta street. Would you believe we only just moved into our school house 2 months ago [they had been talking about doing up an old school and moving in in 2018]. We had so many delays and I still don’t have my terrazzo tiling down but hopefully in the New Year. Wishing you a fabulous Christmas! I’ll send your tracking number to this address.

It’s a wonderful shop run by delightful people. Have a look. Although sometimes everyone knowing everyone in Ireland can be trying, at times it is absolutely lovely.

I have made sugary orange slices to dip in chocolate and am delighted with myself. I realised this evening that I may well eat them all myself. I don’t care.

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Today Mr. Waffle picked up the essential annual Christmas publication for Corkonians at home and abroad.

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I am beside myself with excitement. Obviously, he’s also laid in the RTE guide so that we can record dozens of films which we will never actually watch; a cherished tradition.

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It’s funny how the TV seems so wholesome now whereas when I was a child it was basically the work of Satan and rationed all year round except at Christmas when a certain amount of decadence set in.

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  1. Suzy says

    9 December, 2020 at 17:00

    I love the look of the Christmas oranges – how very festive, is there a recipe?

    (I have started reading the Peter Grant, Rivers of London books on your recommendation – I have to say I am enjoying them and my firstborn likes the look of them too.. thank you very much!)

  2. belgianwaffle says

    23 December, 2020 at 16:30

    There is an orange recipe. It’s from the Irish Times – hope this link works: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/recipes/chocolate-dipped-candied-oranges-with-sea-salt-1.2878105?mode=amp

    Glad you’re enjoying Peter Grant, I still am too and there are loads of them!

  3. Suzy says

    24 December, 2020 at 12:34

    The link works, thank you very much…they look fab (currently on Peter Grant 4!)

  4. belgianwaffle says

    24 December, 2020 at 23:58

    Good all round. Happy Christmas!

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