Well Tina it's that most wonderful time of the year - It is - So we just wanted to come on and say
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our viewers - Yes and we hope that everybody is having a
wonderful celebration of the season - And we thought we would just have a little chat about some of
the favourite things that we have as our Christmas traditions and some of them are quite wacky
but one thing when we came to Canada we left behind our parents in the UK
so our family is fairly small here so we found out on Boxing Day you could go to the local cineplex
movie theatre and they were open and they were running all the blockbusters and we
would take our two kids who were teenagers at the time and we would go to the movies
and how many people would be in the movies Tina - Maybe
6 or 8 it was so quiet it was deserted there was nobody there almost bar us was there - It was the
ultimate home theatre but - Great experience wasn't it - Because we were there virtually on our own
- And another very similar but strange thing that we found out too is that we had friends who
would always go out for dinner on Boxing Day and they always went to a Chinese restaurant
because the Chinese restaurants were open (yeah) they said it was great - And it was
pretty busy as well because after everybody's had turkey dinner they want something different well
what better than going to have a Chinese dinner
- That was nice - So one thing I was brought up with was the stuffing in the turkey was my parents did
the sage and onion predictable at the front of the turkey and at the back they had chestnut stuffing
and that is something that has always stayed with me just absolutely love chestnut stuffing
- It is like one of your favourites isn't it Norm because we absolutely adore roast turkey don't we
(yeah) it is really nice and another of our favourite Christmas traditions is mince pies
isn't it - It is and if you're not familiar with that it's not steak or meat - Not a savoury one
- It's a typical English thing which is a fruit base - Almost similar to a butter tart but with mince
meat in it - And it has raisins currants and all that good stuff and some nice spices as well so
mince pies always features heavily - It does and another of your favourites Norm is the Christmas
cake - It really is - That is one of Norm's favourites - I love a rich dark fruitcake like a Dundee cake
but Tina's Grandmother used to make them for the family from scratch (yeah) and she would make them
about 6 to 8 weeks in advance and then she would just keep pricking the fruitcake with
a toothpick and feeding it with whisky - Man did that taste good didn't it - It really did by the
time it was marinated and then obviously putting marzipan and then royal icing on top nothing
better than Christmas cake we've also just love around Christmas we don't watch Christmas movies
until very close to Christmas day (no) but you know there's a couple that we really have to see on
there - We do have our favourites don't we one of them is the National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
and we laugh every year that we see them going out cutting that huge Christmas tree and putting it up
- Good old Chevy Chase - It's so funny and the other one of course is one of your favourites
- A Wonderful Life it's just pulls at the heart strings wouldn't be Christmas without it
so we'd be curious to hear what your traditions are or what your treats are that you like and
leave them in the comments below and let us all share this wonderful time of the year
so Tina and I are going to have a lovely Christmas day (yes) we've got everything underway
and we just wanted to have a Christmas toast with you so we've got our sherry in our
glass and we'll say cheers Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays - Merry Christmas
- And we hope everybody is staying safe - And keeping well - And happy this holiday season
so until the next time bye bye, bye bye