Pa's sixty-fourth
birthday was spent in hospital, unfortunate and my son and I were
rather sad about it,but Pa did celebrate his birthday in style as the
nurses gave him a real birthday cake and sang happy birthday as they
woke him on his special day'
Today was Pa's birthday
meal proper,roast beef with trenchers,roast honeyed carrots and
parsnips and a massive Pavlova smothered in cream and covered in
raspberries and blueberries with shards of white chocolate as a
frosting.
This way of eating beef
or most other meats is a great favourite with us and is always loved
by our guests . The massive piece of beef with it'd accompanying
basket of trenchers looks spectacular and there is something very
decadent about eating hot meat in this way.
My family have always
eaten meat in this fashion on high days and holidays for instance if
you went to the house of any of my aunts on Christmas Eve you would
be offered a sandwich of hot roast pork and stuffing with a slice of
crackling on the side no wonder they had lots of visitors .
O f course we also ate
in the usual way with sauces ,potatoes, gravy ,stuffing ,etc. but
the memory of those hot meaty sandwiches remains and tempts me often
to relive those lovely times.
Pa has loved this type
of meal ever since he ate in on his first Christmas at my parents
house although my mother-in -law was scandalised at the “Wicked
waste.”
It was lovely to wake
this morning knowing Pa was safe at home,the cats are happy again and
we managed our first Christmas game together this afternoon before
the visitors began to arrive,all agog to see Pa standing straight
again . He has a number of serious operations looming on the horizon
but we are hopeful that in the end all will be well.
I will leave you with a
part of the song we sang to welcome Pa home yesterday.
Hail the conquering
hero comes
Drink a toast to no
more bruises on his bum!
No more falling over
No more walking
stick...................I can't remember the rest.
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