Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread December 1st through December 31st 2025

[Bethan]

Happy Christmas Websleuths friends!

Have a beautiful day

 

[tricia]

MERRY CHRISTMAS
THURSDAY DECEMBER 25TH 2025​

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Designed to be more childproof, I suppose -- but I'm always sending vitamins and paracetamol flying across the room these days. You need so much force now to bust the foil on the blister packs that they often pop out and go airborne! And I've sliced the tip of my finger too on some of them.

Yes! This has been happening to me. Pills shooting off who knows where.

Once a small pill ended up under the fridge, I managed to get it out with a flat brush thing that goes under narrow spaces, but I couldn't bring myself to consume the tablet after it had been on the floor so I put it in the bin.

 

[Mo Thuairim]

Yes! This has been happening to me. Pills shooting off who knows where.

Once a small pill ended up under the fridge, I managed to get it out with a flat brush thing that goes under narrow spaces, but I couldn't bring myself to consume the tablet after it had been on the floor so I put it in the bin.

Ha, same. On more than one occasion mine have shot off and landed in the catfood bowl. Ugh. I have fished tablets out of several strange locations and consigned them to the bin. An expensive waste!

Anyway thank you for the confirmation. Mr Mo denies this is true and believes the packets are the same as they have always been but you're my proof! For some reason he does not suffer the same projectile pill incidents. He must have a better technique than I do

 

[Dotta]

25 December

Christmas

Best Christmas Wishes
with Polish traditional Lullaby for Little Jesus

"Hush little Jesus, my little Pearl,
Hush my favourite little Delight.
Hush little Jesus, hush, hush
And You lovely Mother,
solace Him in tears.

Hush, our beautiful Angel.
Hush, You graceful little Flower of the world.
Hush, You most decorative little Rose,
Hush, You most comfortable little Lily."

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Anyway thank you for the confirmation.

Thank You, I don't feel so stupid now

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I had a great idea re filling the pill containers.
I did it on my queen size bed, with the white doona.

All went well until a tiny white pill shot out... somewhere.
I thought it might have landed on the floor but couldn't see it.
I manually felt all over the white doona and voila! I found it at the end of the bed.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Yeah, it's gorgeous, especially as we're going to be slow cooking the lamb today.

Dinner at our house isn't until tomorrow, so today is just cook, prep, and chill out for my partner and I. We'll probably do our annual watch of Arthur Christmas at some point. Mum is at one of my brothers' for lunch hanging out with her grandkids, my other brother is with his wife's family today, and our housemate is in Melbourne with her grandkids.

Tomorrow, we'll cook the chicken and all the veg and it'll be mum, me, my partner, second brother and his wife, and my cousin if she turns up.

We put up our tree yesterday. My partner and I paid $20 for it in 2003, when we first lived properly on our own, no family or housemates. It used to light up with fibre optic strands, but that hasn't worked in years, so now we just have three little strings of lights that are probably fifteen years old or older and a motley assortment of ornaments that are small enough and light enough for it to hold.

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The lantern thing was a gift from my partner's mother a few years ago. It's full of glitter and a snow scene. It plays music, too, but we never turn that on except by accident.

What a seriously fond memory... your tree.
May it be with you forever!

And I must ask...
What is Arthur Christmas??

And is your slow cooking a leg of lamb, or some other body part???

 

[iamshadow21]

What a seriously fond memory... your tree.
May it be with you forever!

And I must ask...
What is Arthur Christmas??

And is your slow cooking a leg of lamb, or some other body part???

It's an Aardman film with a cracking best of British cast. It's clever, and funny, and has a lot for all ages to enjoy, not just kids.

Partner's already tucked the lamb away in the fridge, so I'll take a picture of that tomorrow. We slow cooked it at 130C for six hours with olive oil and rosemary, and partner made gravy from the pan juices. It is a leg of lamb, bone in.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

It's an Aardman film with a cracking best of British cast. It's clever, and funny, and has a lot for all ages to enjoy, not just kids.

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Partner's already tucked the lamb away in the fridge, so I'll take a picture of that tomorrow. We slow cooked it at 130C for six hours with olive oil and rosemary, and partner made gravy from the pan juices. It is a leg of lamb, bone in.

phew..that lamb sounds delish.... honestly I feel I can smell it.
I'll have to look for Arthur....surprised it hasn't popped up scanning Prime or Netflix.
I do have Britbox..maybe there.

 

[Onlyguessing23]

phew..that lamb sounds delish.... honestly I feel I can smell it.
I'll have to look for Arthur....surprised it hasn't popped up scanning Prime or Netflix.
I do have Britbox..maybe there.

I love those Aardman films! But I’ve never heard of Arthur Christmas.. something to discover.

Merry Christmas, all! Wishing everyone Peace, love and deliciousness.

 

[iamshadow21]

I love those Aardman films! But I’ve never heard of Arthur Christmas.. something to discover.

Merry Christmas, all! Wishing everyone Peace, love and deliciousness.

It's a digital film, not claymation like Wallace and Gromit, etc., but it retains a lot of the look, the humour, and the charm of those earlier films. You can still tell Aardman is the driving force and spirit.

 

[Gators North]

Yeah, it's gorgeous, especially as we're going to be slow cooking the lamb today.

Dinner at our house isn't until tomorrow, so today is just cook, prep, and chill out for my partner and I. We'll probably do our annual watch of Arthur Christmas at some point. Mum is at one of my brothers' for lunch hanging out with her grandkids, my other brother is with his wife's family today, and our housemate is in Melbourne with her grandkids.

Tomorrow, we'll cook the chicken and all the veg and it'll be mum, me, my partner, second brother and his wife, and my cousin if she turns up.

We put up our tree yesterday. My partner and I paid $20 for it in 2003, when we first lived properly on our own, no family or housemates. It used to light up with fibre optic strands, but that hasn't worked in years, so now we just have three little strings of lights that are probably fifteen years old or older and a motley assortment of ornaments that are small enough and light enough for it to hold.

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The lantern thing was a gift from my partner's mother a few years ago. It's full of glitter and a snow scene. It plays music, too, but we never turn that on except by accident.

It’s beautiful!

 

[Gators North]

I keep my vitamins and one prescription daily in a 7 day pill container which I refill when needed.

The vitamins are individually in their little foil pockets.
I have noticed that some have changed to much harder foil to break open with your fingers.

I wonder if it's for security reasons ?

I've taken to using tweezers to break through the foil but this time I told myself if only I pressed harder I could do it which resulted in being sliced underneath the top of my finger. Just the part where you press the keyboards.

I've seen there are plastic gadgets you can buy which are solely for this purpose.
I don't know if I could be bothered.

I have one of those pill containers too, but I really only use it on the rare occasions when I go out of town. I take a multitude of prescriptions and supplements, so I keep them in their bottles.

Tweezers are a good idea to open those pesky packets. I usually resort to scissors and end up cutting myself anyway!

 

[Gators North]

Merry Christmas to my Websleuths family!

 

[Gators North]

It's an Aardman film with a cracking best of British cast. It's clever, and funny, and has a lot for all ages to enjoy, not just kids.

View attachment 632946

Partner's already tucked the lamb away in the fridge, so I'll take a picture of that tomorrow. We slow cooked it at 130C for six hours with olive oil and rosemary, and partner made gravy from the pan juices. It is a leg of lamb, bone in.

That leg of lamb is making me hungry! I haven’t had lamb since I left home 50 plus years ago.

 

[lonetraveler]

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY WEBSLEUTHS FRIENDS!

 

[Sillybilly]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all you wonderful Websleuthers !!

 

[TootsieFootsie]

My personal actual Christmas day on my own didn't go as I thought it would.

Radio silence on the actual day from two of my kids who didn't view cards I sent, didn't reply to texts with well wishes for the day.

Later one did text to tell me they haven't opened the gift I sent them last week. ?

The glass half full person has come back a bit today.
I was struggling quite a bit as yesterday went on and the silence took over.

I did talk to a friend which helped.

I can only be responsible for how I let things affect me and today I choose to feel content, not tortured.

The talk with a friend and catching up with housework and readling lovely good wishes that members post here on our Websleuths family has also really helped.

Now to set my robot vacuum cleaners going

Merry Christmas all and a special hug to those who for whatever reason feel a bit sad over Christmas XXXOOO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I did feel content but now realise that I probably need a new washing machine

It seems however much I rearrange the load, the machine sees it as unbalanced.

I'll add it to the list of appliances that are failing.

Sandwich maker, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't
Kettle similar thing but I gave it the Whack Whack method and it worked for a couple of months longer.
I gave it a good talking to as well, told it that if if wasn't fixed by this morning it's for the bin.
Did not work. Then another go at the Whack Whack, nothing.

I don't need a new kettle though as I always buy a spare one of ones I like so now I'm using the brand new spare.

So even though I don't need a new kettle, I will buy one for a spare

And a new laptop for just in case.

Anyway it looks like this load of washing I might have to end up wringing out by hand.
I'm going to try all the menu ones and see if one of them might still work for the spinning part.