Christmas prep

Let me paint the picture for you. Its 32 degrees, I have the air con on while I am glazing our ham and making cranberry sauce trying to get a leg up for Christmas lunch. Bing Crosby is serenading me with Let It Snow and I am being stalked by one of my dogs while the ham bakes. Ah. Christmas in Australia. Don 'cha love it! Without all the contradictions it just wouldn't be the same. Lily keeps hovering around my feet waiting for some morsel to fall on the ground - perhaps she's thinking if she's lucky it may be an entire 4kg ham shoulder that falls. I caught her gazing into the oven at the ham while I was out of the kitchen. Busted! She really looks like she 'needs' that ham!