Invitation

I had tea with Ted and Beryl tonight. I’m stuffed. Beryl is finalising her mince pie recipe for this year so we had to be guinea pigs and try 12 different types that she’d prepared. My personal favourite was the one laced with so much drambuie it burnt your throat out, but in the end we all agreed she should go with the shortcrust, deep-filled option with icing sugar and chocolate flakes on top. Lovely, and she’ll bake about 10,000 of them in time for Christmas, so there’ll be plenty more for me to gorge on.
Ted said “You can say no if you want to, but obviously we’ll be having a big family do here on Christmas Day, and obviously you and Hannah are invited.”
I said it would be lovely, but explained that Sophie would be here for Xmas, and that she might have her partner with her, and that Nathan might be spending the day with us as well, so it seemed a bit unfair to accept.
They smiled at each other and Beryl said “Oh, I’m sure we can squeeze you all in somewhere.”
Ho, ho and ho.

RC 9-12-10