Words and Photography by Nadine Wilmanns

September Christmas Cronicles

“This morning while it is still dark, I sit at the kitchen table, get out the current little black book and start this year`s Christmas list.”

(quote from ‘The Christmas Chronicles” by Nigel Slater)

September. Reading the Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater. Mainly as part of my research for the book I`m working on, but I also really enjoy his writing, like how he says things.

Here are my favourite quotes:

“We never had Champagne. At least not the real stuff. All that mattered was that a cork went pop and there were bubbles in our glasses. No one minded that what we drank was tummy-twistingly acidic and had bubbles in the sitze of Maltesers. The point was noise and fizz.”

“A welcoming drink, may I suggest, is not just about other people. Something good in a glass can be a rather lovely way to welcome our own arrival home. God knows, we deserve it.”