Spooky Holidays

[JHyde]

I want to try these churros. I can't believe you've never had chocolate almonds, Beatriz!

My mum has always made the pudding and the fruit cake. They're both very good. She kept a few shillings and six pence from the old days and they go in the pudding. my grandmother, who still makes one for the evening at my godmother's, just wraps the more toxic new coins in foil, which isn't the safest thing, but oh well....

This year I meant to start a new tradition of having my own stir-up Sunday, which is a prep day held on a Sunday a month before Christmas, where you marinate the fruit and other things for pudding and fruit cake. But not only was one of my best mates overseas, it was also the hens weekend I was hosting, so it was a bit full