Appy Christmas

Dear reader, you may have noticed that it has all gone quiet on the McIntosh front of late. So brace yourself. Here it comes. Another patented James apology. You know the type: the ones where I talk about how busy I have been, how many miles I have clocked up, how many motorways I have traversed and how many one-way conversations I have had with a turkey slowly defrosting in a bucket of ice.

It’s that time of year again. When the rest of the world is winding down for Christmas I am beginning to wind up. Every day has the same routine: I tick off the previous day’s cookery demo then I jump in the car and drive to the supermarket to pick up the ingredients for the next one. I’ve probably said it before, but it’s amazing how quickly you lose the taste for turkey, ham and cranberry sauce (scarlet confit for those of you in the know!) when you cook it thirty or forty times in a row. I can’t help laughing when I hear the song ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day’ on the radio. For in a sense it does.

But I digress. My intention was to apologise for my absence. Or rather to explain it. The reason I haven’t been around so much is that I have been working on a project. Quite a BIG project. In fact, if I knew how much time, effort and stress was going to be involved I would maybe have thought twice about starting it. I never learn.

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