Yuletide greetings!

[davidgillon]

 My sister cooked, I washed up. Only disasters were leaving the yorkshires in the oven rather than on the plates and this year's M&S stuffing - bring back the pork and leek!

To quote my dad's old line "an elegant sufficiency" was had.

Comments

[sovay]

To quote my dad's old line "an elegant sufficiency" was had.

Huzzah!

[lokifan]

Merry Christmas! Lovely.

[vass]

That was my grandmother's old line too!

[davidgillon]

One of my friends from uni reports her family uses it too. It seems to be much more common than I anticipated, and on googling:
https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2018/04/an-elegant-sufficiency-or-the-curious-case-of-a-victorian-meme.html