MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM LALANDE! (Patreon)

I hope that your Christmases were as merry as possible in these strange times! I noticed some of your latest concerned comments and just wanted to reassure you that we’re all very well.

After the work of producing the Advent vlogs I took Christmas Day and Boxing Day off, and decided to give everyone in the chateau a day without filming on Christmas Day. It was wonderful and it even snowed for a moment! In the morning we opened our presents by the tree whilst eating Selmar’s delicious stollen, mince pies and bacon sandwiches, washed down with tea and mimosas. Then, I was in charge of making Christmas dinner for everyone. We had prawn cocktail to start, then roast turkey, roast goose, sausages wrapped in Parma ham, pork and apple stuffing, sage & onion stuffing, roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, Brussels sprouts and gravy and cranberry sauce, followed by (a bought) traditional Christmas pudding with homemade Armagnac butter. Marie made her classic old-fashioned cocktails for everyone and we drank delicious Georgian wines that my friend Levan had sent for us.

After all of the filming and editing during December, and the cooking on Christmas Day, I spent most of Boxing Day in bed! I was back at work today editing the ‘bloopers’ from the Advent filming and they’ll be uploaded to YouTube tomorrow evening. We also filmed a bumper Christmas edition of ‘Cadeaux at the Chateau’, sitting by the Christmas tree, which will be out on the ‘Chateau Unwrapped’ channel in the coming days.

Most excitingly, Hash, Davy and I have taken all of the measurements for the arrière cuisine, china pantry and winter salon library, and Hash is getting quotes for all of the work from the joinery company that he works with. Now that advent is over, I’ll be focusing all of my efforts on the renovations ahead!

Thank you so much for all of your support and for following the advent vlogs which have been (as you’ll see from tomorrow’s bloopers) an absolute joy to make.

As usual, the next Patreon video will be out on Wednesday!

Lots and lots of love to you all from Lalande,

Stephanie

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