Thursday 31 December
We decided to venture out to
Karolyn and Jim's house for a party to celebrate the last day of what has not
been a very fortunate year. We cheered
up immediately when we entered and saw the perfect 50s white Christmas tree
with purply-pink lights, and the green one decorated with figures of pirates,
bananas, Buddhas, Einsteins, aliens, and other celebrities.
Karolyn had kindly set out a comfy
chair and ottoman so Holt could relax, and had even more kindly spread a
generous table of homemade specialties like gravlax, "grandma-style" mushroom
and roast pepper-olive pizza, fried cheesy olives, and various crudités. We drank punch and prosecco, and toward midnight,
sparkling Gruet and blanc des noirs,
along with the new layout of sweets: Holt's two sorts of biscotti (orange-almond
and coffee-chocolate), and Karolyn's shortbreads, brownies, snowballs, gingersnaps,
and rum-soaked fruitcake.
We made it to midnight, and came
home happily to a sparkling new year. So
thanks, Karolyn and Jim, for starting 2016 so sweetly for us!
1 comment:
So glad you enjoyed the party and eats. Let me know if you need a healing infusion of shortbread and black cake. Sadly the gravlax has been consumed - no better breakfast is known to man or beast - though given enough encouragement I could make some more.
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