Four weeks

Four weekes to go, skimmed an article yesterday about cooking a turkey.  It basically came down to - go out for lunch.  It said that you take your elephant sized turkey, as we know we always buy one too big, on Christmas morning whilst trying to wrestle with the turkey and stuffing get down several gin and tonics, then the turkey becomes very compliant so does the husband.  Sprouts, need to have a frost to be good, so instead of waiting for the frost of winter buy frozen they have been frosted.  Dinner from begining to end should take no more than three hours and by the time you sit down with the elephant (turkey not husband) as by now the  G & T have kicked in, there will only be you as the rest will have killed themselves fighting over the games console and computer games, sounds great fun.  In our house, the veg are peeled the night before, the turkey is cleaned the nightbefore, the morning of the 24th Dec all traces of Soap are removed from every surface so everyone sits down to a soap free dinner.  The greatest fun I think is opening all the pressies no matter how small, especially if they contain chocolate.