We spent this year's Woodlanders' Christmas do in a rented church community hall with adjoining kitchen. As last year, this was a lovely event where the members of disparate subgroups get to meet, i.e. the families with the smaller kids who go to the kiddie events to make things out of branches and twigs, and the hardcore lumberjacks and -jills like us, who turn trees into branches and twigs. At our annual Xmas event, everyone chips in to feed and juice the five thousand. All brought food was parked on a side buffet and the rest of the huge ballroom-style area was given over to folding tables with Christmas card-making materials, gluesticks, glitter, child-friendly scissors and orange squash. I ended up making a kick-ass red and green glittery garland that is now decorating our Christmas tree.
I always treat the Christmas do as a bit of an allotment challenge. This year, my haul consisted of this:
A whole bag of leeks and another of perpetual spinach and chard. In the background, our red cabbages, rainbow chard (red and yellow), and kales.
Some intrepid marigolds, still going strong in December.
Out of that and the last of our russet apples I made a sweet and savoury leek-and-apple quiche with feta cheese and Indian spices to take to the do. OH used up some more of our harvested frozen rhubarb for a lovely rhubarb crumble. Both were hoovered up quite quickly, which pleased us both.
Lovely sunset over the allotment site: a litte piece of England in winter.
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