* You know the song.
I awoke to a beautiful day - sunny and windless.
I've just been lying in bed reading and enjoying the view.
Finally getting up at about 10AM I made myself a coffee with Bailey's in it and had a slice of the apple and Christmas fruit mix slice I made last night.
It doesn't quite look like the image in the recipe, especially without the icing sugar coating but it is scrumptious.
For dinner tonight I'm making a smoked salmon, caper, dill and goat's cheese tart:
Robert's god knows what it'll look like but I'm sure that it will taste good.
Hey! How's your Christmas day going?
Two thousand and twenty one years ago (plus about another five or six years as Emperor Constantine and his cronies in the fourth century weren't too bothered about facts when they made up the Jesus Christ story, one of Robert's favourite three gods was may have been born. Happy birthday to that fella.
In case you were wondering The Old Girl's been out gardening. There's only a week or so to go before the gardening contractors are coming in to excavate and rebuild the front garden so she wants it to be 'tidy' before they arrive. 😕
3 comments:
Merry Christmas Peter and the Old Girl.
Believe what you will.
Yes, a Jesus might have existed but wasn't necessarily born at the time that, in more recent times it has been reported. In fact it was in the 4th century that Emperor Constantine and his political advisors created the whole myth and kind of gave credence to the emerging Christians. This was done as placation to a possible dangerous group of anti-Roman revolutionaries.
The stories about Jesus were a collection of teachings by Judaean prophets and cobbled together with beliefs and teachings from other religions and cultures - Roman, Greek, Asian/Oriental, Middle Eastern - you name it. There is no proven connection from this to our morals and certainly not our legal systems. That's just fantasy on your part but, as I said, believe what you will.
The tart not only looked good but tasted great. We ate it with steamed asparagus.
This will be added to the collection of favourite recipes.
The proof of that was in the eating.
The proof of the nativity thing is something else.
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