I was only obeying orders

I had two things to do today.

One, pick up the turkey (ordered last month from our local butcher).

Two, go to the dentist.

The latter was just a check-up, following an emergency appointment in October for persistent toothache.

Curiously the pain continued, on and off, for the best part of a month until it mysteriously stopped a few weeks ago.

I was a little nervous that today’s prodding and scraping might aggravate the tooth and the pain would return, just in time for Christmas, but it seems to be OK.

As for the turkey, my wife had told me to “order a whopper” which seemed unnecessary given there will only be four of us on Christmas Day.

Nevertheless I did as I was told and looking at the size of it we’ll be eating nothing else for days.

After that it will be time for the enormous gammon I was also instructed to buy. That’s another four meals (x4) at least, I reckon.

Christmas - don’t you just love it?