Steamed this beast of a Xmas pud for 2.5 hours, but then still felt to ill to eat it! Sod’s law strikes again. It is shop bought, but absolutely packed with booze and goodies. I will let you know how it tastes, once I get round to tasting it.
The sister and fiance finally made it back to their home in highlands, only to be greeted by the fact that their oil had been syphoned! So no central heating for them and it was apparently very very cold 
The cough was to0 wretched to inflict on anyone else, so I stayed in with the folks, gazed at the blue moon, watched the remake of the day of the triffids and had a few snowballs.
Oh your poor sister – hope these string of bad fates only paves way for good before and after the wedding !
I am not sure from where I’d begin to spoon the pudding !
It has been eaten! The folks declared it the best xmas pud ever, I thought it was okay.