No turkey, let’s try sushi
In Spain on Christmas day they eat a traditional meal of fish for their main dinner. I now know why.
In Spain you get a lot of power cuts and power surges. At least with a main course of fish if your oven goes off you can turn it into sushi and salmon is best served raw or smoked.
Today, on Christmas day, in parts of the Midlands and Staffordshire we had a major powercut. I was woken up to my mum screaming on the stairs, ” we are doomed, we are all doomed.” She’s usually quite a happy soul I knew that either she’d lost her lottery ticket or David Cameron had snuffed it.
It was neither. We had a powercut at around 8am and power didn’t resume until around 1pm. This meant no electricity. Phones didn’t work, we had no central heating and most people had no turkey at lunchtime either. Restaurants would have been in a hell of mess.
Luckily for us, mum and dad have an Aga. Usually thought of as an evil thing on account of the burns it leaves on our arms, the huge gas bill it causes and in summer the heat exhaustion we suffer as the whole house sizzles, but today it saved our bacon.
We did think about charging the neighbours £50 for the loan of one of the many mini ovens in the Aga but in the end we hogged them all for our parsnips, roast potatoes ,stuffing and even what the hell, Yorkshire Puddings. We turned on the gas fires, my brother sorted out the Christmas hip hop music from his ipod and we had a jolly good time.
When the power did return we let out an enormous cheer and heated up an extra bit of brandy for the Christmas pudding.
Was it a very merry Christmas…..you bet!
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