Hi, readers, I’m going to be off from about 19 minutes from now until Monday, January 7. YES!!!
LL and I will have a quiet holiday. I cook a traditional “English” dinner for us on Christmas Eve — standing rib roast, Yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes, Brussel sprouts with a Bordeaux red wine with cheese and port to follow — and a little Southern breakfast on Christmas morning, you know, eggs and country ham and red-eye gravy, grits and biscuits, with a bottle of Pol Roger Brut champagne. So much for our traditions. Otherwise, I’m planning on getting a lot of my own writing done, as well as posting to my personal website and blog, and taking lots of walks with the dogs.

It’s been great posting to “Whining & Dining” this year and enlightening, educational, amusing, exasperating and above all fun reading all of your heartfelt responses to my and Jennifer’s ideas and opinions. While I’m off, I’ll keep up with what’s going on on this blog and when it’s appropriate, I’ll send in a response.

Aside from that, I hope everybody has a wonderful, well, whatever you want to call it — Christmas, holiday season, Yuletide and so on. Eat well, drink well (but moderately) and keep it honest.