3rd Sunday of Advent 2020
3 rd Sunday in Advent 2020. Gaudete! Rejoice! "Have you started the tour around Flax Bourton, looking at the Advent windows yet? Ruth has set us the title, “What is Christmas to you?” And Christmas is a lot of things to me; midnight service, Christmas morning; a failed attempt to have our major celebration on Christmas eve so that we were free to visit folks on Christmas morning. That worked for a while, but we ended by having lunch at about 4.00 pm. Not so good. And then there’s the years of what I call “Celebrity Chefism”. All those years of undercooked, overcooked, forgotten and burnt attempts to follow Deliah or NIgella or whichever chef of the moment. Until I discovered grown daughters, pre-lunch sparkling wine and Jamie; St Jamie. Under his distant tutelage and the girls’ help, I came across the “Two-hour turkey rest”, the time to join the rest of the family and just relax. Ah! Christmas. But what have ...