We bought cheese today.

[panik]

The Christmas cheese, from the wonderful cheese stall on Chorley market; spent £16 on eye-wateringly strong and perfect Somerset cheddar, a wonderful-looking slab of Stilton, a Camembert, some Dovedale Blue, some organic Lancashire and Stinking Bishop! yay! I've always wanted to try it.  Also some truly yummy looking organic lemon-butter shortbread and topped up the mince pies.

I got the last-minute cards off including those with Top Gear discs in, then went for a long walk in the frosty hills. It was SO gorgeous - slippery - deadly so in places, but beautiful. The becks and streams are frozen solid, including the little waterfalls - it looks like the Singing Ringing Tree out there.

Now we're drinking wine and  toasting our toes beside a roaring fire; next door's cat has come in for a warm and showing no sign of leaving any time soon. We have Boston Legal to watch, there's an interesting looking documentary on Unity Mitford at 9 and it's the last eppy (gasp! no! sob!) of The Mighty Boosh on BBC3.

And tomorrow, nothing to do but work on my fic.

Life is good sometimes. (o:

ETA: Boston Legal Denny and Alan squee! Hand holding, cuddling, sniffing... Can Boston Legal get any slashier? Well... ::hopes...:: *G*

Comments

[cross-stitchery.livejournal.com]

smelly cheese, snow, icicles, roaring fire, Yorkshire (it is Yorkshire, isn't it?). okay, that settles it. i'm having Xmas at your place next year <g>

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

You'd be *very* welcome! A fangirl Christmas, now that would be something; we could get very drunk and read fic to each other by the fireside... (o:

[cross-stitchery.livejournal.com]

hee! that sounds like so much fun! unfortunately, tho the spirit is incredibly willing, the financial situation is correspondingly weak...

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Ah; I dream of such a Christmas. Alas, my actual holiday will be nothing like as much fun. ::sigh::

Oh how I love that icon...

[luicat.livejournal.com]

The Singing Ringing Tree? That was one scary programme!
I'm glad you had such a lovely walk.

I'm not as adventurous with my choice of cheeses, but some of those sound really nice.

Have a wonderful evening!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Stinking Bishop is pretty expensive - £1.80 per 100g; Wallace and Grommit have a lot to answer for - and it is truly stinky but looks delicious and exciting.

I have something of a small obsession with the Singing Ringing Tree. Got it on DVD, if you ever want to relive the experience? (o:

Have a wonderful evening yourself babe. I'd love another piece of gingerbread but I ust can't squeeze any more in. *g*

[luicat.livejournal.com]

Singing Ringing Tree. Got it on DVD, if you ever want to relive the experience? (o:

Wow! Thanks!

I'd love another piece of gingerbread but I just can't squeeze any more in. *g*

What - not even a waffer theen meent? Go on, you know you want to!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

No. I would explode. It would be nasty.

Re: Trees that Sing and Ring - would you like a copy? (I'd have to find it first, mind. It's in the impenetrable Fairy Forest of my DVD shelves into which many a shy young disc has disappeared, full of energy and hope, never to be seen again - serves them right for eating my gingerbread.

Oh dear; I fear all this rich food has broken my brain.

[luicat.livejournal.com]

Oh dear; I fear all this rich food has broken my brain.

You know what's worrying? I understood all of that and was quite happy with it!
In other words, only if it's no trouble otherwise I wouldn't mind just borrowing them sometime when they reappear in the search for more gingerbread. Naughty discs!
Thank you
::hugs::

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I shall go a seeking tomorrow (leaving a trail of cake crumbs behind me, just in case) and when I find it, I shall make thee a copy. Keep it away from Gingerbread cottages, though. And evil dwarves.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Now that is the best type of cheesy Christmas :)

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I loves me a cheesy Christmas! We have oatcakes too... :: frisbees oatcake lathered in stinking bishop at Sally::

[slipperieslope.livejournal.com]

Stinky cheese and a roaring fire inside and a winterwonderland outside - you are doing Christmas up just right! That neighbor cat may never go home!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

At half past nine he got up, stretched and yawned then stood and yowled at the door till we let him out - must be his dinner time back home. *g*

I wish I could say Christmas was going to be a joy but I fear it'll be something to be endured this year - so we're having our own mini-Crimbo in our own house here before we have to go and face the real thing. (o:

Merry Christmas to you, hon - hope you have a wonderful one.

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

I LOVE a really strong, old cheddar! =>}

It all sounds wonderful, cozy in front of the fire.

This Monday's Boston Legal was the slashiest one yet! LOL! =>}

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is really good cheddar, too; crumbly and yummy and Boston Legal! - I thought it couldn't get any better after last week's outing in the courtroom, but the hand holding and the *sniffing* - man! *GGG*

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

They make a very tasty five year old cheddar in Ontario that we love. I think one of the nicest cheddars I ever had was MANY years ago - a twelve year old cheddar we got in Vermont. SO good! =>}

[arnie1967.livejournal.com]

Ooh, cheese is always good. Real cheese that is, not half fat (which isn't even half as good). Enjoy your cheeses! ::drools::

Working on fic is good. I hope you have fun - and stay warm. Brrr!

PS. I got your card, thank you!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

and I got yours, too; thank *you*, too. *g*

half fat cheese? What that...? ::shudder::

[arnie1967.livejournal.com]

half fat cheese? What that...? ::shudder::

Not good - take my word for it! It doesn't melt properly at all. :o\

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I've seen it - I am aware of its existence but never been the slightest bit tempted to actually buy it. Cheese is cheese, let it remain its perfect self. ::nods::

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm - cheese!

...then went for a long walk in the frosty hills. It was SO gorgeous - slippery - deadly so in places, but beautiful.

Oh wonderful - sounds so beautiful - but cold!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

It was very cold, but amazing - don't have the camera here, alas, or I'd've pic spammed everyone to death.

And cheese, yeah - and so much of it! *G*

[kaelana.livejournal.com]

Chesse? Now you're singing my tune ;) I must've been a rat in a past life 'coz I could eat cheese seven days a week! I could eat Camembert by the pound but it's expensive here. I haven't heard of the stinky cheese you mentioned, I may have to try a bit of that some time.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Stinking bishop is quite a rare cheese, made by a small cheesemaker - it got so popular because it's the cheese favoured by Wallace and Grommit and now cheese sellers have to join a waiting list to get it.

But cheese - mmmm. Stinky cheese especially so. (o: