24 December 2006
We almost have Christmas under control now. It surely has been frantic. Got all my cards sent off in time for everyone to receive some time between Christmas and New Year. Ah well, the sentiment is there at least.
I'm trying to find a nice carol service to go to in East Dulwich somewhere. There's a lot of choice but no way of telling what would be a good traditional service to go to. I may just go across the street to the one opposite the house as it means I don't have to find my way back at midnight from anywhere too far distant. Southwark Cathedral's would be nice but I think it's oversubscribed and I'm not sure how I'd get home.
We spent two hours at the Citylink in Lower Sydenham yesterday picking up a parcel from BB's sister. It seemed none too organised there. When we left, there were people there who'd been waiting longer than we had.
The queue outside William Rose's butchers yesterday at 08:44 (when we went down to get our goose) was ridiculous. It stretched past 5 shops and down to the Linedancing Club building. BB reckons there were about 100 people, though I think that's a tad of an exaggeration. Nonetheless, East Dulwich was a festival of queuing at the greengrocers, the Cheese Block and ED Deli. We went to Sainsbury's and got an organic turkey instead.
Unfortunately, later in the day (around 15:00), I walked past William Rose after having queued at above mentioned stores for a good part of the afternoon, to find that there was no queue and there were bucketloads of happily raised geese in the window. Which just goes to show that putting things off till the last minute is not always such a bad thing.
I'm trying to find a nice carol service to go to in East Dulwich somewhere. There's a lot of choice but no way of telling what would be a good traditional service to go to. I may just go across the street to the one opposite the house as it means I don't have to find my way back at midnight from anywhere too far distant. Southwark Cathedral's would be nice but I think it's oversubscribed and I'm not sure how I'd get home.
We spent two hours at the Citylink in Lower Sydenham yesterday picking up a parcel from BB's sister. It seemed none too organised there. When we left, there were people there who'd been waiting longer than we had.
The queue outside William Rose's butchers yesterday at 08:44 (when we went down to get our goose) was ridiculous. It stretched past 5 shops and down to the Linedancing Club building. BB reckons there were about 100 people, though I think that's a tad of an exaggeration. Nonetheless, East Dulwich was a festival of queuing at the greengrocers, the Cheese Block and ED Deli. We went to Sainsbury's and got an organic turkey instead.
Unfortunately, later in the day (around 15:00), I walked past William Rose after having queued at above mentioned stores for a good part of the afternoon, to find that there was no queue and there were bucketloads of happily raised geese in the window. Which just goes to show that putting things off till the last minute is not always such a bad thing.
Labels: Christmas, east dulwich, food
