Left-overs

The Christmas pudding re-steamed successfully for brunch today and the goose risotto went down well yesterday. There is plenty of goose fat for future use. Today one starts on goose curry. I think I will be able to use every part of the bird as I have in the past, but I must admit I was seduced by the Lidl last-minute offer into buying a fowl which only just fitted in the oven. Well, it was free-range and goose was the traditional meat for Christmas here before the coming of farmed turkey.

If there is anything compostable left over, at least one can now dispose of it with a clear conscience. Not so with wrapping-paper, which is more than ever this year plastic-based. Neath Port Talbot is among the many Welsh authorities insisting that all wrapping paper be put in the general refuse because of the difficulty of separating out the plastic and composite material before it contaminates the general paper stock. Unfortunately, it would seem to be impractical for Welsh government to act independently in banning the material as it did over plastic carrier bags.