A Wild Acres Christmas dinner

The regular activities at Wild Acres have decreased since the closing of the CIC a month or so ago, but today was about everyone sharing and cooking food and catching up with friends.

My task was to make Christmas pudding which I utterly failed to do yesterday for reasons too boring to record here. I bought along a couple from Sainsburys, but as it happens there was enough home-made dessert for everyone so they weren’t needed.

I got down there at around 10.30 and lunch was scheduled for 1pm. My main task was keeping the fire going as we would all eat in the outdoor dining room.

We had the huge fire bowl at one end and fetched a metal chimera from the top of site to heat the middle.

Cherie and Martin co-ordinated the cooking and main pie, but various people supplied vegetables, trimmings, snacks, mince pies and sweet treats. There was a mountain of food, as usual for these occasions, but very delicious. I didn’t need to eat the rest of the day.

Kathy played the flute, with christmas songs, and generally there was chatter and mingling between everyone through the day.

There’ll be a meeting in the new year about what the future shape of Wild Acres will look like, but for now this was a terrific way to round off another year of activity.