Christmas 2025

Christmas Day

Christmas 2025... I went on a 4.95 mile walk in the morning on my own since the gym was shut so had to get my steps in and some fresh air. Got back and got ready to go to nanny Wing's for lunch.

Nanny Wing with Max the youngest great grand child

Annual cousin photo

Billy having a tantrum cos he hates photos

Not the biggest spread of food - turkey and belly pork were the meat then carrots, parsnips, sprouts and roast potatoes and the obligatory Chinese soup

Lunch was at 2pm and was back home by 6pm as Tracy was going to her sister in laws then uncle Mike was going to his sister in laws. We just came home but I was ready to go to sleep when we got back. Managed to stay up to watch the 2 parts of Eastenders - just about though as part 2 was on at 9:45pm. Quite an uneventful Christmas day but was nice to see everyone and be back in grandma's.

Saturday 27th December

Went out with Danielle, Kelly and David. I picked David up from his mum's as he was home from London and Kelly up from Lime Street as she was coming from Manchester and we went to Penny Lane. We went to The Dog House and had a few drinks there then went for food in Croccante. Me, Danielle and Kelly shared.

Ortolana - Tomato sauce, mozzarella, courgette, aubergine, sun-dried tomato with added chicken - £13.50 + £2 for extra chicken

Amatriciana - Tomato sauce, mozzarella, crispy pancetta, onion and pecorino - £14.50

We also got Fries with cheddar & crispy pancetta and Frittelline di Pizza with Croccante dip - Light, golden bites of fried pizza dough with our signature home made dip.

The fried pizza dough bites just chunks of pizza dough and they were very salty. I'd forgot to take a photo as the pizzas came before them and I'd started eating the pizza. The pizza is very thin and it's more of a take out place so all the cutlery and plates were disposable so was really hard to eat as I like to use a knife and fork to eat my pizza. (I hate getting my hands dirty!)

After food we went to the Richmond Tavern for 1 drink then I did my taxi round and dropped Kelly off at South Parkway and David back home.

Sunday 28 December

Yesterday I went to see Avatar 3 - Fire and Ash with Holly at Odeon Switch Island as she had free tickets and I've not seen her since we went to see Bastille over a month ago. The film was good but long - 3hrs and 17m! I didn't really know what was going on as I don't remember the first one and the last one came out 2 years ago and we went to see it on New Years Day when I was very tired in 3D. Definitely need to watch them all again but they're just too long to watch and because they're so visual you also have to watch them in the cinema. Just isn't the same watching them at home on your TV.

Monday 29 December

Was back in the office today but only till 3pm and not back working till Friday at home.

 After I went to Escape Hunt again to do an escape room with Jo, Rich and Jacob. We did The Last Vikings. It was really hard. We really struggled with this one but our time was faster than last year and broke out in 44 minutes which was a surprise. We thought it was about 50 minutes and was only 6 minutes off from getting on the leader board. Definitely the hardest one so far out of the 3 others I've done. Only one more I need to try which is the Wild West one.

After we went for dinner in Bakchich which is a Lebanese and Moroccan Restaurant on Bold Street. Not somewhere I would go but they had been before and said it was nice. The restaurant is quite small and when we turned up they didn't have a table for us so we had to wait about 15-20 minutes.

Matcha Latte with Coconut Milk - £4.80

Wasn't great and didn't taste like it was coconut milk

Mixed Shawarmas Platter - £14

Chicken and lamb with salad and Arabic rice

Shish Taouk - Chicken skewer, marinate in Lebanese spices - £19

Chicken Shawarmas Wrap - Salad, pickles, fries, garlic sauce, pomegranate molasses - £8

Chicken Shawarmas Saj Platter - £13

Jo also got the hummus starter and Rich the lentil soup. Jacob had his own skewers and the rest we shared. The lamb was good, the chicken was dry in the mixed platter. The wraps in the saj platter were crispy where as the normal chicken wrap was just a toasted wrap. The food was very garlicy and I was really thirsty when I came home. It's pretty similar to the Turkish grills as the flavours are similar and is with either rice or chips. Not my usual go to so nice to try something different. Dinner was my Christmas present off Jo and Rich and the escape room was mine to them.

Thanks again for dinner!

Off to see Zootroplis 2 tomorrow afternoon and either a New Years Eve party or chilled one in. Didn't originally have plans for every day after Christmas but managed to see nearly everyone and making the most of the time off work.

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