We hope you all had a thoroughly enjoyable Christmas and were able to catch up with friends and family as we did. We had a marvelous time at our Midlands rendezvous. The Midlands branch were excellent hosts and welcomed us Norfolk branch members with open paws, along with our Suffolk branch friends and cousins.
We had lots of lovely food and drink and some good walks to work it off and we also had a trip out to the races at Leicester.
One of our Christmas traditions is to see how a particular statue, at the crossroads in the nearby village of Dunchurch, has been decorated. The statue is normally of Lord John Douglas Montague Scott, a 19th century landlord and Scottish M.P., but each Christmas mystery pranksters dress it up as a well known cartoon or TV character. This year it was ...
... a smurf, and a very fine smurf they had made of Lord Scott. As a birthday treat we chose Noel to pose with the smurf for a photo.
As we had been away for quite a few days, one of our first jobs on returning home, was to go shopping to replenish our store cupboards. We were thrilled to find huge bags of sprouts on sale in Morrisons for just 5p. What an absolute bargain. When we got home we put them all in a washing up bowl and it more than half filled it ...
... believe us, the depth of sprouts was a lot greater than it looks in our picture.
Fortunately many paws make light work and we managed to get them all peeled while watching the Top Gear Christmas special on iPlayer - not sure how we missed it.
Chef Oakley has been quite busy researching sprout soup, and other recipes. Tonight we are having roasted sprout and potato bubble and squeak with our casserole. It sounds lovely as we are all big fans of sprouts.
Lots of love, all at Bears Unlimited xxx
P.S. just weighed the peeled sprouts and there are nearly 4 lbs!
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Suffolk Branch enjoyed the fruits (or veggies) of Norfolk Branch's labours and can confirm that Chef Oakley's sprout squeak was delicious as was his Thai banquet the previous night. Yum yum yum! Happy New Year from all of us too.
Midlands Branch intended to try some sprouts sliced in the food processor and then stir fried with a little bacon but did not get round to it over the holiday period. Perhaps we could try out the recipe some time soon, and if we like it try again next year.
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