AFTER breakfast I edit some ‘Santa paddle’ into a short ‘happy Christmas’ reel for my socials and Margaret goes to Stirling to pick up a new coat stand following. last night;s collapse of the old one. She also gets some extra shopping in. just a little.

There’s quite a lot of prep for tomorrow (Christmas day) and Les arrives just in time for lunch.

One of my first jobs is to make cherry stuffing, Once it;s done and pretty much ready to go tomorrow start making a brine for the turkey.

When the initial brine is cooled enough I put it over the turkey, add more water, a cinnamon stick, some halved oranges and a load of peppercorn. Some ice packs on top of the turkey ensure it stays under liquid then the bucket is put in the shed.

Mikey and Matty roll up and we have a nice evening..and manage to have not to late a night. It’ll be chaos tomorrow when the kids get here!