Everybody is out buying in supermarkets in London, my family tell me. I am at home with a cold, despite being double jabbed in Singapore, against flu and Covid, my 5th jab.
I was online in a toastmasters international meeting, Singapore International Dynamic, run by President Edward in Belize. Our theme was Xmas food around the world.
He had a great background of trees. In Belize their Xmas meal includes local food such as beans and rice.
We started with a table topics or imprompty speech session, 2 minutes each on local festive food for Xmas or any other holiday we celebrate. I showed Waitrose Xmas cake. I also had extra props. Stollen, the marzipan filled sweet roll cake, from Germany, but Waitrose haas their own brand. For Hannuaky, which this year coincides with Christmas, the food is latkes, grated potato pancakes, ike has browns or rosti, and donuts with dozens of kinds of fillings..
He warned us about procrastinating. Don't leave your shopping until the last minute. Some shops will close early, even lunch time on the 24th, so their staff can prepare for Xmas Eve.
Last year Edward went out to buy presents at a department store and food at a supermarket.
Supermarket - Closing Time.
All went well until his wife phoned and reminded him to buy the cranberry sauce.
By now the traffic had built up, exacerbated by a minor, but inconvenient traffic accident. Unnecessary stress.
The supermarket was still open but had closed the doors as it was already full of customers. Luckily he spotted a friend inside and was able to get his friend's attention and shout, Cranberry sauce!
Nearby was a seller of local Rum Popo. He bought that to give to his friend as a thank you for the favour.
What is rum Popo? The brand name for Local rum, with added ingredients, like an egg nog. The lady who made and marketed it was credited with turning around the Belize economy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rompopeop
As Shakespeare said, all's well that ends well.
The moral of the story, don't leave things until the last minute.
I had left my back ground to the last minute. I hastily looked for a suitable picture to load up. I found one of myself with Christmas crackers.
Then I found a picture showing the candles for all eight nights of Hanukah with an increasing number of candles. The last night, number eight, is on Boxing Day, December 26th.
Christmas and Hannukah backgrounds for the International online Toastmasters meeting on Friday Dec 23rd.
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