Displacement activity

There is so much to do - and all I want to do is write about it, because it makes me feel I am doing something.   I have made the pastry for the mince pies, and looked at the stollen recipe - and tomorrow I will make them, along with sausages, spinach and cheese filo pastries, devils on horseback and foccacia... I will also have to do the gravad lax - and tidy the dining room so that people can come in here and help themselves to drinks.

I keep finding things I haven't got: olives, pasta, etc. but then I remember that the shops will be open again one day and I will be able to deal with everything then.

So, now I am going to clear the dining room table and tag all the remaining presents and socialise with Ned & Finn...and then, when M comes back from the carol concert we might have a glass of wine and relax.