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Know Your Elves - #4 Mystery Egg
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14-11-2016 8:01am#1
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Week 4, the lights are on in grafton street and the shops are full of Christmas stock.
This week we are joined by the great Mystery Egg who by the end of this week we will know them so well we will be just call Mystery Egg, Egg. :P
So let's kick off, favourite Christmas movie? Favourite Christmas memory?
In the words of Paul Simon, you can call me Egg.
Favourite Christmas movie. Ah now. I am not good with the favourites thing. I actually have a hard drive full of Christmas movies that my husband downloaded for me that I can access all year round, although I try to ration them. I love them for different reasons, based on my mood. If I want to feel nostalgic, probably Home Alone. If I want to laugh, then definitely Elf, or perhaps Groundhog Day. If I want a feel-good but traditional film, I go for the Muppets Christmas Carol. If I want to have a cry and reflect on the deep and meaningful nature of life the universe and everything, I go for It's a Wonderful Life. If I want to be bored off my face, I go for Santa Claus the Movie. And if I want a sense of atmosphere I will usually go for one of the even more traditional versions of A Christmas Carol - and I love the recent animated one with Jim Carrey.
Favourite Christmas memory. Well, I might play a curve ball here. Growing up, although Santa was always good to us, there was always a lot of stress in our house. That has not changed. In my teenage years my parents stopped celebrating Christmas. They might have a turkey dinner and send half a dozen cards but no tree or any other festivities really. So my good Christmas memories are really in adulthood, making new traditions with my boyfriend, who went on to be my husband. But the memory I will share is one that sparked my genuine obsession with Christmas and all things festive. I was walking through (Dublin) town one early December many years ago. I was in the city to attend a medical for a job I had applied for. The office where I took the medical was down by Grand Canal Dock, and completely accidentally on my way out, I stumbled upon the brand new Christmas market. It was like a moment of genuine wonder. I'd had no idea it was there. My tummy was rumbling - it was around 2pm - and I had a bratwurst with fried onions, a cup of mulled wine and some pillowy German mini cakes which were fried and dipped in icing sugar. I wandered around the stalls and rides, wrapped up in my coat and hat in the cold sunshine, munching away and soaking up the atmosphere, chatting with all the stallholders. It was just a magical hour and I went home in great humour. Oh and I got the job as well. 0 -
I try to practice self-control. I love, love, love Christmas music, but I want to be able to enjoy it to excess in December, so I try to ration it. But I have been known to listen to a few Christmas tunes many Monday mornings in the shower, to wash away the Monday blues.Hold off listening to Christmas tunes till December or crank it up the whole year round? 0 -
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My Christmas eve day varies from year to year. At the moment we live abroad so sometimes we spend it by ourselves here and sometimes we spend it travelling, and sometimes we spend it with my husband's parents at their home. If we are here, we will usually take the day off, sleep in, have a little bagel, and wander into town for a look round the shops. All shopping will be done at this point so it will just be to soak up the atmosphere. Then we'll go for a lovely proper restaurant lunch and have a bottle of bubbles and toast the year. Then we'll go home and usually get the place ready for having some friends round for dinner and drinks. This might be followed by midnight mass (usually around 10.30pm here!) at the local cathedral, with or without our friends. At home with his parents, the day will run on their schedule, which is really not a bad thing, culminating in a yummy home cooked dinner from my MIL with lots of bubbles, followed by watching telly with a glass of booze in hand. Again, 'midnight' mass may or may not feature.Hollister11 wrote: »What's your Christmas eve day like? 0 -
I had to google this. Presuming you mean the stuff to throw on a Christmas tree and not a kind of spaghetti (I am usually in favour of all things spaghetti) I would probably lean towards a no go area. I am not a neat freak but I don't like a lot of cleaning up and it looks like the kind of thing that you'd be finding in your knickers and down the sides of the couch for weeks after Christmas.Shoe Lover wrote: »What's your take on angel hair? A Christmas tree must or no go area? 0 -
Mystery Egg wrote: »I had to google this. Presuming you mean the stuff to throw on a Christmas tree and not a kind of spaghetti (I am usually in favour of all things spaghetti) I would probably lean towards a no go area. I am not a neat freak but I don't like a lot of cleaning up and it looks like the kind of thing that you'd be finding in your knickers and down the sides of the couch for weeks after Christmas.
Hee, it is horrendous stuff! I just suddenly thought of it this morning - we used to always put it on our Christmas Tree as kids & absolutely loved it!
Used to hate having to take it off the tree though when the time came to take it down! 0 -
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Tinsel on your Christmas tree....yay or nay?
In general it is nay I'm afraid. I do like tinsel, but I usually put a bit round the tv or across the top of cupboards, just for a bit of festive glitter. My decorating style is more tinsel and jumble rather than anything too stylish or glam though. 0 -
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When do you start planning for Christmas?
I am always secretly planning for Christmas, thinking "ooh this would be nice!" but the action only kicks off in September, usually with booking a night in Edinburgh for the markets, and then in November with making my cake and buying my presents. 0 -
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Single most indulgent meal you will have all season (not including the Christmas dinner)?
Ooh. Good question. Hrm. My mother in law tends to put on a fancy spread at every meal. And sometimes there are posh restaurant family meals, too.
But honestly? My absolute favourite Christmas meal will be a huge leftovers sandwich with King cheese and onion crisps and a glass of cold milk. 0 -
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