Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Oh, my, it's fruitcake weather ...

Dovegreyreader has been asking for suggestions for Christmas reading and after I mentioned Truman Capote's lovely story A Christmas Memory, one of Lynne's readers mentioned that she'd mislaid the link to a favourite recording.
I've read it many times but I've never heard a recording - and I don't know whether this is the version that Sarah had in mind - but I found this very charming TV film  on YouTube, narrated by Capote himself.
(I tried to upload it and failed miserably.)

It's just the right length for a cup of tea and, as I didn't have any fruitcake and didn't want to venture out in the rain for mincepies from the cornershop, I had the inspired idea of making a batch of flaky, sugary Welsh cakes. Kitchen cupboard to plate in about five minutes. Just right.
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5 comments:

  1. Lucille19 December 2012 at 21:46

    I always have to read The Country Child by Alison Uttley. And then something by Laura Ingalls Wilder. And possibly Rumer Godden's Holly and Ivy. I haven't had time this year.

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  2. mary19 December 2012 at 22:24

    I remember doing The Country Child at school, Lucille. It was lovely, especially the marchpane house. I'd love to read it again.

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  3. mary19 December 2012 at 22:25

    No, of course it was A Traveller in Time that had the marchpane house, silly me! But they were both lovely books.

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  4. Mystica20 December 2012 at 03:57

    Thank you for a wonderful, nostalgic post.

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  5. mary20 December 2012 at 10:05

    I'm glad you liked it, Mystica.

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