The Suddenly Kate Show

Only three more sleeps to go and wrapping of gifts has commenced! I'm not quite ready for Christmas but I've 72hrs left so what's the rush??! Hehe
This weeks Top 10 is all about food and drink that is related to Christmas and I have to say thinking about it all is making me hungry!
First on my list is a food that I love to eat during December even though it's available in other months and that's ...
1. Satsuma's

Next...I always think of goose fat! Yuck! But so if used when roasting potatoes is absolutely delicious and so popular these days here.
2. Goose fat
3. Yule log As a chocoholic every Christmas has to have a Christmas chocolate Yule log. Especially as I don't like Christmas pudding or mince pies. It is usually very sickly but...it is Christmas!

4. Port
I don't like red wine but I am partial to a port or port & lemonade (rwhites) and this is very much a Christmas tipple.

5. Liver parfait
It's available all year round and it's my starter of choice…

Top 10 Christmas themed cross stitch charts #16
I decided for this weeks theme to focus on one of my favourite symbols of Christmas, I apologise that I haven't gone with the religious side of Christmas in my choice, but I do love me some Santa!
I have chosen designs that I wouldn't necessarily stitch (although some I would) but which I would happily have stitched for me to hang on my wall! hahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahah I need to get my nieces addicted to cross stitch.
So, here in no particular order.....










Don't forget to go and check out what Tiffstitches and Keebles have to say! (links on the side bar)

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It is true. Here it is. My 500tth post in just over four years.I am not sure what I should write.

Should it be meaningful, profound, moving, or just plain fun?

The answer I thought was for me to bore you half to death with my blog stats, or write a mammoth list of 500 thoughts that I may be having at any one time. In the end after minutes of self-reflection and internal anguish I decided...

"Oh bugger it! I'll just write todays Top 10!"

So...here it is...


Top 10 Favourite films to watch at Christmas

I. as you know, love me a bit of Christmas, Xmas, Crimbo, Yuletide etc. and I am that person who (if they thought they could get away with it) would spend entire days throughout December watching the Christmas Movie Channel. Yes, not just big budget but low rent dodgy TV movies suck me in too.

Below are some picture clues to just a few films that I will…

I thought I would take a moment to tell you all about the upcoming Christmas Rom-Com (12-part story) that as it has in the past will run from December 13th until Christmas Eve.  I hope to make you all smile each day as the main characters get up to Christmas themed antics.

This year is going to be a little different, and I am asking you (the readers of this blog) to choose each day’s perspective….What?! I hear you cry!

Day 1, I shall post the first part of the story where you will meet the two main characters, then before midnight (GMT) each day you need to vote on whose viewpoint you would like the next day to be from…and the one most voted for will be the one that is posted the next day. It will all make more sense once we get started!

So…what are you letting yourself in for? What’s in store?
‘Santa-bloody-tastic Land’

NOBODY TOLD ME IT WAS WEDNESDAY TODAY!!!! Again I am late...I am sure I was a white rabbit in a past life...hehehe...so here is my list of Top 10 things I love about Christmas.

1. The lights

I love the lights, especially when you walk past windows and see the twinkle of lights on a tree, it just adds to the atmosphere. When it’s so dark and cold and you see the warm glow of Christmas lights you can’t help but smile, or at least for me it’s like a gentle hug.

2. The music

The sound of the bells jingling, the happy tunes, whatever the music whether spoof, cynic or love tunes, the music always gets me into the holiday spirit. I once took my mother to the Ritz in London for their high tea. It was early December and as we supped out tea and thought about leaving a choir arrived and was singing carols and it was like stepping into that movie moment. Carol concerts, little kids singing badly or overly sweetly is pretty adorable.

3. The movies

Where do I begin? One of the f…