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Merry Christmas to you four and to your families!! I love your vintage decor! It brings me back further too! And Woolworth's hasn't existed here in Canada for years and years! Doggies are sweeties! As are you both! Thanks for sharing!❤
Sarah and Willie - your little "tree" brought back fond memeries - My husband and I were both in the US military when we met - he got orders to transfer to Germany - we married so I could go with him - We got to Germany about 10 days before Christmas - found a tiny apartment - I found a branch of greeny from a larger tree laying by a trash can and brought it home - put it in a tin can filled with stones and sand from a nearby construction site - decorated it with a star made of tin foil and cardboard and tiny little silver balls I bought at the army base store - our first Christmas together was great because we were so in love and happy to just be together - not much money - so no gifts. We were together for 53 years when my husband died (2013), had 4 children and now 5 grands..... we still have the tiny little Christmas balls; still a precious decoration for our trees over the years!
Yorkshire pud! Yum Yum Yum. I used to make that for my family when the kids were younger and we lived on the farm. I learned to make a lot of British cooking for the whole family! You guys have a fabulous Christmas and a very happy new year!! ❤❤❤❤👳♀️❤❤❤❤
Growing up in the 80s seen that vintage Christmas decoration from Woolworths has bought back some memories, wow , didn’t think there was any of them left , my parents used to crisscross those across the ceiling every Christmas when I was a kid . Yes Yorkshire pudding is a must on Christmas dinner , on every Sunday roast infact . Anyway guys just want to wish you both a very merry and peaceful Christmas .
Thank you for the introduction to yet another confection that I must try--tablet! The bagpipe serenade during the baking of the puddings was hillllllarious, never mind the comment regarding "responsible drinking." Laughing is good... and you two are so naturally good-humored. Humor is in short supply these days (*in the US--enough said, full-stop trainwreck*)... so, thank you. Looking forward to the byre conversion compilation as well. P.S.) The dead spider on the wreath was creepy--you're a brave little gal, Sarah. Take care and keep warm~~ from the Midwest, US.
An American here who makes Yorkshire puddings every Christmas. My family loves them! They’re really not quite the same as a popover as those tend to have a bit of sugar in them. I recently did a trial run since I hadn’t made them in almost a year and used a recipe very similar to Willie’s…equal parts flour egg and milk. Absolutely the best I’ve ever had! Happy Christmas folks!!❤
We make them (Yorkshire puds) every year, too, in Washington (the state, not that other one). The funny bit is that we also have popovers on Christmas morning.
Hi Willie and Sarah, Merry Christmas. I'm in bed sick, been flat on by back for 3 weeks as I have had a cough since February after I had an operation to remove a tumour from my finger, and over the past 3 weeks my cough is terrible and now I've got the flu and Shingles. I need a wee holiday. Lol I'll be glad when this year's over. Lol the best thing about this year for me, is watching you to living the Skye life. ❤ XxKathleen from Greenock.
@kathleenmurray9096. So sorry that you have been so sick I do hope you are feeling much better now. Take care and have a lovely Christmas and a wonderful New Year 2025.
Bless your heart! Your lungs . . . Your flu and your shingles. I had a horrible cold the week before Christmas, then Covid for Christmas and my Dec. 26 birthday, so you have my full sympathy. Lighting a candle!
New subscriber here! Yes on the Yorkshire Puddings! I am going to do it! 👍 I am Scotch Irish here in the US. I remember the same puddings from my childhood. I grew up in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia and my grandfather always celebrated our ancestry and traditions in our small and very Irish and Scottish community. I am now passing things on to my grandkids to keep it alive! Merry Christmas to you both and your beautiful doggies! Sending love and blessings! ❤✨🎀🎄✨📯🤗
Oh my Woolworth! That decoration was from my childhood! I remember them so well, it fills me up with nostalgia and melancholy. I follow the young lady from the Island Larder, I'd be at that shed filling up!
Thanks hinnies! As usual you have lifted my day. Yorkshire puddings? now theres real gourmet food for you! AS a child during the war and during rationing they were a staple to eke out the meagre food supply. They go with anything. As a desert, how about large yorkshire puds filled with foraged stewed blackberries and apples topped with ice cream or hot custard. Or that oriental "cordon blirt" - hot yorkies filled with chicken curry .or the Durham lads breakfast, hot yorkie with a grilled mushroom in it topped with crispy bacon and scrambled egg! Thats five star michelin cooking. See you next week for your special. Walter.
Yes, we have Yorkshire puddings with Christmas dinner. I make mini ones and freeze them ahead of time, then they only take a couple of minutes to heat up again.
I ALWAYS, ALWAYS HAVE YORKSHIRE PUDS FOR CRIMBO AND ALWAYS HAVE DONE. THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN A BIG, CRUNCHY CRISPY YORKSHIRE PUDDING. YOURS LOOKED REALLY LOVELY WILLY. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND THOSE TWO GORGEOUS DOGGIES. LOVE ROSIE. 🇬🇧🐕🐕❤️
What a privilege to live on Skye - those artisan shops are delightful. Thanks for all your hard work during this year & look forward to seeing what 2025 brings.
Your Christmas tree is brilliant. When I was young, we couldn’t afford a tree but my Dad was a teacher and when branches of trees were blown down in the school grounds, he nabbed one, got his students to paint it white and brought it home!!
Hodge podge decorations are just the best as they have so many memories attached to them. Merry Christmas to you all and thanks so much for your lovely videos x
Get yourself some waterproof over trousers (or really, you should already have them?!) and put these over your PJs-sorted. I often do my sheep and chickens in PJs over the Christmas season…
These foil decorations are from the seventies. I remember my parents having them. I was born in early sixties and they were the only decorations everyone had.
I wish you both, Willie and Sarah, a very Merry Christmas, have a magical time. Your Decs look gorgeous, Sarah, much more Christmassy than the modern way, with colour themes. We have been married 50 years this next year, and our tree is always decorated not onlywith baubles we have collected over the years, but ones of our Parents, a Darning Mushroom that was my Grandmother's, handle wrapped in twinkly ribbon, and a couple of Penny Whistles that were my Fathers when he was a Boy. It is my Tree of memories, and I remember where I was, who gave me, and who I was with on every single decoration, and in so many ways it brings all our families past and present together as it always has been. I send you both love, and look forward to our weekly get togethers next year , Thankyou for always lifting my Mondays xxxxx
Merry Christmas!!! I agree! Beige is not Christmasy decorations! I’ve collected so many ornaments from my childhood, my children’s creations & gifts from friends!! It’s a wonderful time to remember all the times past!! And all the blessings of family and friends! Blessings to you two and your pups in the coming new year!!🎉❤
Oh my those Yorkies looked amazing! In Canada we also call them Yorkshire Pudding and they are one of my favourites! I can't wait to try Willie's recipe! Little Nori looks like he is bigger than Jack already?
Hello Sarah and Willie, and pups . Great Christmas video today. It was very nice to see all of your shopping ventures Sarah. I'm sure everyone will enjoy their gifts. Looking forward to your next video as always. 🎄♥️
Definitely Yorkshire Puds with Christmas Dinner. In my family, if the meal has gravy then there are yorkshires. Enjoy yours. Wishing you a wonderful and joyful Christmas x
Mmmm yorkshire puds on Christmas dinner is a must 😄 Love ❤ stayed on the Campsite many many times Very friendly with Colin (RIP) he was such a lovely man as well as hiring cottages have been to all the places you showed. Spent Christmas and New Year all over Scotland last few times up on Sango Bay Camp Site Durness, just us in the MH sadly not been for a few years now but have Fabulous Memories. Just found you today so will go back and watch your vids from the start looking forward to watching them all Happy 2025 😍❤️🌻
After my parents became too old to put up their own decorations, the tradition changed to me loading them into the family van and driving around our corner of Nashville to see the light displays at other homes. This year, Dad (88) said he couldn't go. So I drove Mom around and we had a great time. One house had a display of inflatable hairy coos! I'll post that on Instagram and tag you. A childhood tradition was my dad's side of the family gathering at his parents' house for dinner. Dad had four brothers and they all married and had kids too, so it was a bit crowded! The grandparents have been gone for some time now, as has their old farmhouse in the country. A couple of decades ago, the youngest of my uncles started hosting the dinner at a restaurant in downtown Nashville. Two of my uncles have passed since The Virus, and the youngest one's health got to where he could no longer host the dinner. So I've taken up the tradition and host the dinner at the museum where I work, having it catered by a famous Nashville diner called Loveless Cafe.
I'm American and my dad has always made both popovers and Yorkshire pudding. Popovers are like your Yorkshire pudding, and our Yorkshire pudding is baked in one big pan. (this probably isn't exclusive to other American's just how my family has always done it) My great grandmother used to cook it in the same pan as a prime rib roast, but we make it in a separate pan so we can make gravy from the drippings. I'll have to try your method for making your Yorkshire puddings, as I often struggle to make them rise.
I went back and watched Digging the Holidays on Dirty Secrets of Scotland lol......still a belter of a Christmas tune 🤙🏻😆 And those foil decorations will always be the epitome of Christmas to me....I have 2...and this video just reminded me I want more because 2 just won't look right in my living room lol 😅 I want to do it the way my mum used to....radiating out from the light (big light lol) and going to the 4 corners....with some of the dangling ones in between 😄 Thanks for a lovely festive video...hope you all have a lovely Christmas when it comes 🤗❤
We've had many fantastic holidays on Waternish Peninsula, staying in Halistra at the converted Telford Chapel. It was when only half of it was a holiday rental and the other half was owned by a lovely couple.....the nurse & her husband, a wildlife photographer who also ran boat trips out to sea. It's different now. The crafting is wonderful up there......the hand dyed, handspun wools and the sheepskin shop. Stein is like going back in time. It was great to hunker down in the Inn on wild stormy evenings for a wee dram. Aw, happy days
I have enjoyed this video so very much! Christmas is my most favorite time of year! I love seeing Nativity's, all the Christmas decor, especially vintage and keepsakes. Thank you so much for Sharing y'all's Christmas with us. Its been lovely! Love all your videos! Merry CHRISTmas and the most wonderful New Year! Terri from Kentucky USA
Yes, popovers in the USA. I had no idea they were the same as Yorkshire puddings. Now I need to try making them! 🎉 I am so happy to have one of your calendars ready to go on the wall for the New Year. Happy Christmas to you Sarah and Willie, puppies, family, and friends!🎄 🎁 🎸 🎨
Merry Christmas Willie and Sarah. Better late than never. Youre tinsel garland is indeed from the mid to late 80s. We have identical garlands I bought late 80s from Wool Worths here in NZ :) We still have all our tinsel lanterns, stars and garlands and theyre put up every year. All the best for the Hogmanay and 2025. Much love and best wishes from Rae and Brian and our animal friends X
Wow! I was today years old when I found out what Yorkshire pudding was. I always thought it was one of those big boiled English puddings. Instead, its a very different blittle crispy biscuit. Merry Christmas to all, and Happy Birthday to me on "Boxing Day."
Thanks Sarah that was a lovely video. If I was visiting your beautiful island of Skye that's exactly how I'd spend my time. Checking out all the gorgeous small shops and galleries. My shopping is done in those wonderful unique stores as well. Merry Christmas from a very cold & white Canadian prairie city. Today -22 but yesterday was -39. Brrrrr 💗🎄😊🇨🇦
Yes I absolutely do Yorkshires with Christmas dinner...my home county, couldn't not do them could I?! Wishing you, Jack, and Nori a very Merry Christmas and lots more adventures in 2025!
Love it when you wear green Sarah; your eyes are magnificent! I was a little envious of all your Christmas Cards strung across the wall. With our Postal Strike in Canada, we had not one card delivered only a few local cards that were on gifts. A stark reminder but not essential to the great family Christmas we had. What a lovely Christmas video. Thank you.
Aww bless you - the strike must have been so difficult over Christmas especially!! Fun fact - some of our cards were saved from previous years, so they weren’t all new 😅
I visited Skye by car with my parents in 1958. I climbed Sgur nan Gillean on my 14th birday with a man and his son met on the path to the Cuillins. I have some photos if ever.
What a lovely Christmas video! Wonderful Christmas decorations...cheery and bright!🎄🌟 We hope you had a joyous Christmas...complete with Yorkshire Puddings! Yum. My ancestors are from North Yorkshire, (on maternal line), so you can imagine how many Yorkies I've eaten in my life! I always put the batter in the fridge overnight for a bigger puff...holds the gravy better! Delicious addition to roast dinner! Gorgeous Christmas tree earrings Sarah! Cheers from Canada🎄🌟 🦌🎁🫶🇨🇦
I’m with you Sarah, popovers (yes, another American here) can be a meal themselves! And from personal experience, pair well with Champagne. Willie, those were perfection! Merry Christmas 🎄
Willie, Sarah and Woofs, I was away visiting family on Christmas and just saw this video. I am so happy to see what you've accomplished this year and look forward to many more "Living the Skye Life", adventures. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Frederick "Rik " Spector
Since we now live in Australia we do not cook a hot Christmas dinner. Instead we change it up, according to the weather. It always includes prawns, ham (very Australian) and various salads. However, in July, we will 'do' Christmas dinner and believe me we shall have your recipe Yorkshires. Happy New Year.
I am a Yorkshire lass, and I will be having Yorkshire pudding with our Christmas dinner. I also use the equal measurement recipe, and it does work really well. Well done Willie.
I love Yorkshire pudding; my mother was English and every once in a while, she'd make it with the roast with the drippings! So good, I just love them. I haven't ever had them that crisp though, usually a little softer. They looked good though. (from Sandi)
Merry Christmas 🎄 Hope you enjoy your festivities and the pups get a treat. We don't prepare the Yorkshire puddings, we have croissant or homemade bread's.
I loved the part when the Yorkies rose in the oven to the sound of the bagpipes! 😂😂. Merry Christmas, all, and the happiest and healthiest New Year. I look forward to following your escapades in 2025 xxx 🎄🎄🎄
Merry Christmas to you both. I am visiting the grandkids in Melbourne and have been informed that I am to BBQ the turkey on Christmas Day. This is following a long standing tradition from when our children were young and I always did the cooking. It does at least leave the oven empty for all the other things that need cooking.
Happy Christmas (or Crăciun Fericit as we say here in Romania) Willie, Sarah, Jack and Nori 🎄🍷 Facebook Memories reminded me today that we had a White Christmas last year but it's too mild this year although we might have up to 5mm of rain tomorrow and maybe up to 50mm of snow on Friday.
Many thanks Guys, & Doggies, for a wonderful 2024. Enjoyed it all & as l am almost house bound, got me into nature. Have a great Xmas & all the very best for 2025. Cheers, John.
The Skye Tourist Board needs to pay you! You are such an advert for all the lovely places there! Oh the pottery, oh the wooly jumpers!!! Im trying not to buy more than can reasonably fit into my small home but we have marvelous potters and knitters in Cornwall too and temptation is all around. That bowl you bought was lovely! Have a good Christmas you 4! Xxx
A wonderful little Christmas edition! Nice and festive, fun to see some of the things you guys do for the holidays. Love all the shops you have to visit on the island so unique. Have a wonderful Christmas Willy and Sarah, hope the boys enjoy themselves too🎄
Lol love the colours myself everything goes! My decorations most be a total assault on the senses for most people but I love my silly 30 year collection of bright and beautiful so I applaud your wonderful Christmas jolly decor!!🎄😍💋🌌
We used to have decorations like that but older, made with crepe paper and pretty sure they had a thread inside to help get them folded back up again after. The yolk colour varies by what the chickens are fed, caged chickens have chemicals added into their feed to try and ensure the yolk matches up with a standard acceptable colour. Alternative to standard savoury yorkshire puds is to make them with a sweeter batter and serve filled with stewed fruit like rhubarb, apple, brambles
I will try your Yorkshire recipe this year. I make roast beef and popovers every Christmas and enjoy them the next day as little sandwiches with the cold sliced beef, butter, and a splash of gravy. There is nothing better. According to my knowledge popovers are individuals and Yorkshire pudding is always made in a large roasting pan and cut into servings afterwards. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from New England USA. God bless you both and the dogs as well.
Also Willie that making of the Yorkshire pudding was spectacular. I've never had Yorkshire pudding before. I will have to give you a recipe a try Thanks for sharing.
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Merry Christmas to you four and to your families!! I love your vintage decor! It brings me back further too! And Woolworth's hasn't existed here in Canada for years and years! Doggies are sweeties! As are you both! Thanks for sharing!❤
Woolworth’s hasn’t been here in the UK years either. I miss it
We don't have Yorkshire pudding here different food altogether but happy Xmas to you both we will be having a bbq ham and salads
Sarah and Willie - your little "tree" brought back fond memeries - My husband and I were both in the US military when we met - he got orders to transfer to Germany - we married so I could go with him - We got to Germany about 10 days before Christmas - found a tiny apartment - I found a branch of greeny from a larger tree laying by a trash can and brought it home - put it in a tin can filled with stones and sand from a nearby construction site - decorated it with a star made of tin foil and cardboard and tiny little silver balls I bought at the army base store - our first Christmas together was great because we were so in love and happy to just be together - not much money - so no gifts. We were together for 53 years when my husband died (2013), had 4 children and now 5 grands..... we still have the tiny little Christmas balls; still a precious decoration for our trees over the years!
What a beautiful story ❤️ how lovely to have such precious memories 😊
Lovely story! 😊
Such a lovely story, merry Xmas.
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Yorkshire pud! Yum Yum Yum. I used to make that for my family when the kids were younger and we lived on the farm. I learned to make a lot of British cooking for the whole family! You guys have a fabulous Christmas and a very happy new year!! ❤❤❤❤👳♀️❤❤❤❤
Growing up in the 80s seen that vintage Christmas decoration from Woolworths has bought back some memories, wow , didn’t think there was any of them left , my parents used to crisscross those across the ceiling every Christmas when I was a kid . Yes Yorkshire pudding is a must on Christmas dinner , on every Sunday roast infact . Anyway guys just want to wish you both a very merry and peaceful Christmas .
Thank you for the introduction to yet another confection that I must try--tablet! The bagpipe serenade during the baking of the puddings was hillllllarious, never mind the comment regarding "responsible drinking." Laughing is good... and you two are so naturally good-humored. Humor is in short supply these days (*in the US--enough said, full-stop trainwreck*)... so, thank you. Looking forward to the byre conversion compilation as well. P.S.) The dead spider on the wreath was creepy--you're a brave little gal, Sarah. Take care and keep warm~~ from the Midwest, US.
I'm american and was so intrigued about Yorkshire pudding. I've learned a lot. Thanks.
An American here who makes Yorkshire puddings every Christmas. My family loves them! They’re really not quite the same as a popover as those tend to have a bit of sugar in them. I recently did a trial run since I hadn’t made them in almost a year and used a recipe very similar to Willie’s…equal parts flour egg and milk. Absolutely the best I’ve ever had! Happy Christmas folks!!❤
@@kelleemartin6049 I’ll be at your house! You’re much closer since I’m in the US as well! 😉🎄
We make them (Yorkshire puds) every year, too, in Washington (the state, not that other one). The funny bit is that we also have popovers on Christmas morning.
Hi Willie and Sarah, Merry Christmas. I'm in bed sick, been flat on by back for 3 weeks as I have had a cough since February after I had an operation to remove a tumour from my finger, and over the past 3 weeks my cough is terrible and now I've got the flu and Shingles. I need a wee holiday. Lol I'll be glad when this year's over. Lol the best thing about this year for me, is watching you to living the Skye life. ❤ XxKathleen from Greenock.
Oh gosh - sounds like you’ve been through it this year 😢 Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery and a better 2025 🤞
@kathleenmurray9096. So sorry that you have been so sick I do hope you are feeling much better now. Take care and have a lovely Christmas and a wonderful New Year 2025.
Bless your heart! Your lungs . . . Your flu and your shingles. I had a horrible cold the week before Christmas, then Covid for Christmas and my Dec. 26 birthday, so you have my full sympathy. Lighting a candle!
"blowing a hooly,"what a great saying, don't hear it much now, hope you all have a great Christmas
A saying still widely used in my family down here in the Southwest of Cornwall 😊
@@juliedowning7782 , am in West Yorkshire, sometimes hear it but not much now
Love that saying 😊blowing a hoolie here today 😳
We say that in the South all the time 😂 I am a massive Scotland fan and love that saying
It’s been blowing a hooley in Ayr also 😡if I had washing out it would have ended over on Arran!😮
I always made my Yorkshire pudding ìn the roast drippings after the roast was done. Delicious ❤
New subscriber here! Yes on the Yorkshire Puddings! I am going to do it! 👍 I am Scotch Irish here in the US. I remember the same puddings from my childhood. I grew up in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia and my grandfather always celebrated our ancestry and traditions in our small and very Irish and Scottish community. I am now passing things on to my grandkids to keep it alive! Merry Christmas to you both and your beautiful doggies! Sending love and blessings! ❤✨🎀🎄✨📯🤗
Welcome on board!! You’ll have to let us know how the Yorkshire puddings go down 😊
Yorkshire puddings definitely for Christmas dinner. Have a lovely Christmas
SARAH! Your eyes look almost the same color at your head wrap, (when you were in the car). Absolutely stunning!
Aww thanks!! That’s my favourite colour 🥰
Oh my Woolworth! That decoration was from my childhood! I remember them so well, it fills me up with nostalgia and melancholy. I follow the young lady from the Island Larder, I'd be at that shed filling up!
🏴❤️🏴 yes to Yorkshire puddings, Willie they looked perfect, 🏴❤️🏴
Thanks hinnies! As usual you have lifted my day. Yorkshire puddings? now theres real gourmet food for you! AS a child during the war and during rationing they were a staple to eke out the meagre food supply. They go with anything. As a desert, how about large yorkshire puds filled with foraged stewed blackberries and apples topped with ice cream or hot custard. Or that oriental "cordon blirt" - hot yorkies filled with chicken curry .or the Durham lads breakfast, hot yorkie with a grilled mushroom in it topped with crispy bacon and scrambled egg! Thats five star michelin cooking. See you next week for your special. Walter.
Walter a man after me own heart hinny/pet/love. The Yorkshire brekkie sounds delish.
I just wish we had more videos I love your videos ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ yes Yorkshire pudding on every roasted Dinner xxxx ❤❤❤❤❤❤
best demo for yorkies yet...1.1.1.
compliments from a chef of 46 years...!
Yes, we have Yorkshire puddings with Christmas dinner. I make mini ones and freeze them ahead of time, then they only take a couple of minutes to heat up again.
Aaah the Woolies chain decorations- brings back memories. Looks fab!!
Hope you all enjoy your Christmas and Hogmanay festivities 🎉
Lovely to see the vintage decorations. We use much loved deccys every year . Many from our families....Merry Christmas/Nadolig Llawen from Wales!
I ALWAYS, ALWAYS HAVE YORKSHIRE PUDS FOR CRIMBO AND ALWAYS HAVE DONE. THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN A BIG, CRUNCHY CRISPY YORKSHIRE PUDDING. YOURS LOOKED REALLY LOVELY WILLY. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND THOSE TWO GORGEOUS DOGGIES. LOVE ROSIE. 🇬🇧🐕🐕❤️
What a privilege to live on Skye - those artisan shops are delightful. Thanks for all your hard work during this year & look forward to seeing what 2025 brings.
Love that little “tree” and the Yorkshire puddings. My favorite part of a roast dinner. With gravy
Your Christmas tree is brilliant. When I was young, we couldn’t afford a tree but my Dad was a teacher and when branches of trees were blown down in the school grounds, he nabbed one, got his students to paint it white and brought it home!!
Hodge podge decorations are just the best as they have so many memories attached to them. Merry Christmas to you all and thanks so much for your lovely videos x
I so love the little shops you visit and their products. Everything is so lovely there.
🎅🏽Have the best Holiday ever Jack and Nori too🫶🏼🎄
Get yourself some waterproof over trousers (or really, you should already have them?!) and put these over your PJs-sorted. I often do my sheep and chickens in PJs over the Christmas season…
These foil decorations are from the seventies. I remember my parents having them. I was born in early sixties and they were the only decorations everyone had.
I wish you both, Willie and Sarah, a very Merry Christmas, have a magical time. Your Decs look gorgeous, Sarah, much more Christmassy than the modern way, with colour themes. We have been married 50 years this next year, and our tree is always decorated not onlywith baubles we have collected over the years, but ones of our Parents, a Darning Mushroom that was my Grandmother's, handle wrapped in twinkly ribbon, and a couple of Penny Whistles that were my Fathers when he was a Boy. It is my Tree of memories, and I remember where I was, who gave me, and who I was with on every single decoration, and in so many ways it brings all our families past and present together as it always has been. I send you both love, and look forward to our weekly get togethers next year , Thankyou for always lifting my Mondays xxxxx
Merry Christmas!!! I agree! Beige is not Christmasy decorations! I’ve collected so many ornaments from my childhood, my children’s creations & gifts from friends!! It’s a wonderful time to remember all the times past!! And all the blessings of family and friends! Blessings to you two and your pups in the coming new year!!🎉❤
Yorkshire Puddings are DEFINITELY going to be on my Christmas dinner.
EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS to YOU BOTH and to JACK and NORI! 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎅🤶🎄☃️☃️🌠
Never say no to a Yorkshire pudding, always on my Christmas dinner! Have a lovely Christmas ☃️
YES TO THE YORKIES-THE MORE, THE MERRIER!
Oh my those Yorkies looked amazing! In Canada we also call them Yorkshire Pudding and they are one of my favourites! I can't wait to try Willie's recipe!
Little Nori looks like he is bigger than Jack already?
Love the old decorations ❤
Australian mother ,English grandmother & Scottish grandfather, Yorkshire pudding was a must at Christmas
A very Merry Christmas to Willie, Sarah, and the Boys ☺️🎄
Great video. Loved the vintage decorations. Hope you all have a great Christmas.
Hello Sarah and Willie, and pups . Great Christmas video today. It was very nice to see all of your shopping ventures Sarah. I'm sure everyone will enjoy their gifts. Looking forward to your next video as always. 🎄♥️
Definitely Yorkshire Puds with Christmas Dinner. In my family, if the meal has gravy then there are yorkshires. Enjoy yours. Wishing you a wonderful and joyful Christmas x
IF the meal has gravy? IF?!!! What sacrilege is this?
100% we always have “yorkies”. I will definitely be trying Willies way of baking them, they were amazing! Have a great Christmas and New Year x
Definitely having Yorkers for Christmas, any roast dinner is not the same without them. Merry Christmas to you all 🎄🎉🥂🎄
Yorkshire puddings? YES!
Merry Christmas to you both and the dogs. Thankyou for the entertaining vlogs. 🎄🎄🎄🇬🇧
Mmmm yorkshire puds on Christmas dinner is a must 😄 Love ❤ stayed on the Campsite many many times Very friendly with Colin (RIP) he was such a lovely man as well as hiring cottages have been to all the places you showed. Spent Christmas and New Year all over Scotland last few times up on Sango Bay Camp Site Durness, just us in the MH sadly not been for a few years now but have Fabulous Memories.
Just found you today so will go back and watch your vids from the start looking forward to watching them all Happy 2025 😍❤️🌻
Happy Sunday everyone. Happy Christmas to all of you ❤️ from me and Sir Louie D'Puss x
Happy Holidays! 🎄
Happy Sunday and holidays to you too. 🎄🎄🎄
I will definitely be using Willie's recipe! Thanks!
Definitely having Yorkshire puds and yours look amazing !! Will be using your recipe Willie 😊 thank you. Have a great Christmas 🎄
We love Winking Owl wine from ALDIs here in the great state of Virginia.
Merry Christmas all ❤ 🎉🐾
After my parents became too old to put up their own decorations, the tradition changed to me loading them into the family van and driving around our corner of Nashville to see the light displays at other homes. This year, Dad (88) said he couldn't go. So I drove Mom around and we had a great time. One house had a display of inflatable hairy coos! I'll post that on Instagram and tag you.
A childhood tradition was my dad's side of the family gathering at his parents' house for dinner. Dad had four brothers and they all married and had kids too, so it was a bit crowded! The grandparents have been gone for some time now, as has their old farmhouse in the country. A couple of decades ago, the youngest of my uncles started hosting the dinner at a restaurant in downtown Nashville. Two of my uncles have passed since The Virus, and the youngest one's health got to where he could no longer host the dinner. So I've taken up the tradition and host the dinner at the museum where I work, having it catered by a famous Nashville diner called Loveless Cafe.
The most brilliant idea EVER, heating the oil on top of the stove,
Maybe a wee bit dangerous! It is crucial that the oil is hot but I usually pop the muffin tray in the hot oven to heat up.
The Yorkshire puddings look fabulous. I believe free range eggs have darker yellow yolks because the hens have access to grass.
I'm American and my dad has always made both popovers and Yorkshire pudding. Popovers are like your Yorkshire pudding, and our Yorkshire pudding is baked in one big pan. (this probably isn't exclusive to other American's just how my family has always done it) My great grandmother used to cook it in the same pan as a prime rib roast, but we make it in a separate pan so we can make gravy from the drippings. I'll have to try your method for making your Yorkshire puddings, as I often struggle to make them rise.
Love that Woolworths decoration. So many memories 😀
Yorkshire Puddings get my vote 100% 😃😃
Yorkshire YES! And I will definitely be trying your recipe
I went back and watched Digging the Holidays on Dirty Secrets of Scotland lol......still a belter of a Christmas tune 🤙🏻😆
And those foil decorations will always be the epitome of Christmas to me....I have 2...and this video just reminded me I want more because 2 just won't look right in my living room lol 😅 I want to do it the way my mum used to....radiating out from the light (big light lol) and going to the 4 corners....with some of the dangling ones in between 😄
Thanks for a lovely festive video...hope you all have a lovely Christmas when it comes 🤗❤
We've had many fantastic holidays on Waternish Peninsula, staying in Halistra at the converted Telford Chapel. It was when only half of it was a holiday rental and the other half was owned by a lovely couple.....the nurse & her husband, a wildlife photographer who also ran boat trips out to sea. It's different now. The crafting is wonderful up there......the hand dyed, handspun wools and the sheepskin shop. Stein is like going back in time. It was great to hunker down in the Inn on wild stormy evenings for a wee dram. Aw, happy days
I have enjoyed this video so very much! Christmas is my most favorite time of year! I love seeing Nativity's, all the Christmas decor, especially vintage and keepsakes. Thank you so much for Sharing y'all's Christmas with us. Its been lovely! Love all your videos! Merry CHRISTmas and the most wonderful New Year! Terri from Kentucky USA
Yes, popovers in the USA. I had no idea they were the same as Yorkshire puddings. Now I need to try making them! 🎉 I am so happy to have one of your calendars ready to go on the wall for the New Year. Happy Christmas to you Sarah and Willie, puppies, family, and friends!🎄 🎁 🎸 🎨
Merry Christmas Willie and Sarah. Better late than never. Youre tinsel garland is indeed from the mid to late 80s. We have identical garlands I bought late 80s from Wool Worths here in NZ :) We still have all our tinsel lanterns, stars and garlands and theyre put up every year. All the best for the Hogmanay and 2025. Much love and best wishes from Rae and Brian and our animal friends X
Don't feel down about the weather on Skye, it's just the the same in Geordieland at the moment. Merry Christmas to you all.
Wow! I was today years old when I found out what Yorkshire pudding was. I always thought it was one of those big boiled English puddings. Instead, its a very different blittle crispy biscuit. Merry Christmas to all, and Happy Birthday to me on "Boxing Day."
Thanks Sarah that was a lovely video. If I was visiting your beautiful island of Skye that's exactly how I'd spend my time. Checking out all the gorgeous small shops and galleries.
My shopping is done in those wonderful unique stores as well. Merry Christmas from a very cold & white Canadian prairie city. Today -22 but yesterday was -39. Brrrrr
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Yes I absolutely do Yorkshires with Christmas dinner...my home county, couldn't not do them could I?! Wishing you, Jack, and Nori a very Merry Christmas and lots more adventures in 2025!
Love it when you wear green Sarah; your eyes are magnificent! I was a little envious of all your Christmas Cards strung across the wall. With our Postal Strike in Canada, we had not one card delivered only a few local cards that were on gifts. A stark reminder but not essential to the great family Christmas we had. What a lovely Christmas video. Thank you.
Aww bless you - the strike must have been so difficult over Christmas especially!! Fun fact - some of our cards were saved from previous years, so they weren’t all new 😅
Always have Yorkshire puds with any roast dinner, regardless of what type of meat, and with Christmas dinner too.
I used "twigs" in place of a real tree for years because I was too broke to buy one. I think it is a great idea and yours is very pretty.
I visited Skye by car with my parents in 1958. I climbed Sgur nan Gillean on my 14th birday with a man and his son met on the path to the Cuillins. I have some photos if ever.
What a lovely Christmas video! Wonderful Christmas decorations...cheery and bright!🎄🌟 We hope you had a joyous Christmas...complete with Yorkshire Puddings! Yum. My ancestors are from North Yorkshire, (on maternal line), so you can imagine how many Yorkies I've eaten in my life! I always put the batter in the fridge overnight for a bigger puff...holds the gravy better! Delicious addition to roast dinner! Gorgeous Christmas tree earrings Sarah! Cheers from Canada🎄🌟 🦌🎁🫶🇨🇦
I’m with you Sarah, popovers (yes, another American here) can be a meal themselves! And from personal experience, pair well with Champagne. Willie, those were perfection! Merry Christmas 🎄
Willie, Sarah and Woofs,
I was away visiting family on Christmas and just saw this video.
I am so happy to see what you've accomplished this year and look
forward to many more "Living the Skye Life", adventures.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Frederick "Rik " Spector
What shingyoubith a Happy Christmas and Happy warm Healthy New Year 2025.🎄🎆😀
Since we now live in Australia we do not cook a hot Christmas dinner. Instead we change it up, according to the weather. It always includes prawns, ham (very Australian) and various salads. However, in July, we will 'do' Christmas dinner and believe me we shall have your recipe Yorkshires. Happy New Year.
*Kia ora Sarah, Willie & pups, Merri Kirihimete (Merry Christmas) to you all.🙂nz*
I am a Yorkshire lass, and I will be having Yorkshire pudding with our Christmas dinner. I also use the equal measurement recipe, and it does work really well. Well done Willie.
Definitely 70’s for those Woolies foil decorations (if not before 😂) and yes to Yorkshire puddings says my granddaughter ❤
It is surprising how you can make decorations, more enjoyable and individual. Love the well timed blooper from Nori, it really made me laugh😅
I love Yorkshire pudding; my mother was English and every once in a while, she'd make it with the roast with the drippings! So good, I just love them. I haven't ever had them that crisp though, usually a little softer. They looked good though. (from Sandi)
going to try the recipe tomorrow Willie. Merry Christmas to you both.
Merry Christmas to two talented and gentle people......Its an honour to meet you.
Merry Christmas and thank you fro the videos!
Merry Christmas 🎄
Hope you enjoy your festivities and the pups get a treat.
We don't prepare the Yorkshire puddings, we have croissant or homemade bread's.
I loved the part when the Yorkies rose in the oven to the sound of the bagpipes! 😂😂. Merry Christmas, all, and the happiest and healthiest New Year. I look forward to following your escapades in 2025 xxx 🎄🎄🎄
I put up vintage streamers up in my hall and my granddaughter loved them. She wanted some for her bedroom.
Merry Christmas to you both. I am visiting the grandkids in Melbourne and have been informed that I am to BBQ the turkey on Christmas Day. This is following a long standing tradition from when our children were young and I always did the cooking. It does at least leave the oven empty for all the other things that need cooking.
Happy Christmas (or Crăciun Fericit as we say here in Romania) Willie, Sarah, Jack and Nori 🎄🍷
Facebook Memories reminded me today that we had a White Christmas last year but it's too mild this year although we might have up to 5mm of rain tomorrow and maybe up to 50mm of snow on Friday.
Many thanks Guys, & Doggies, for a wonderful 2024. Enjoyed it all & as l am almost house bound, got me into nature. Have a great Xmas & all the very best for 2025. Cheers, John.
I never have a themed Christmas. My tree has all sorts of things on it as well as different coloured baubles. Love your decorations and mini tree xx
The Skye Tourist Board needs to pay you! You are such an advert for all the lovely places there! Oh the pottery, oh the wooly jumpers!!! Im trying not to buy more than can reasonably fit into my small home but we have marvelous potters and knitters in Cornwall too and temptation is all around. That bowl you bought was lovely! Have a good Christmas you 4! Xxx
Ahh it’s so lovely to see your beautiful decorations and I absolutely make Yorkshire puddings with Christmas dinner!!😊
A wonderful little Christmas edition! Nice and festive, fun to see some of the things you guys do for the holidays. Love all the shops you have to visit on the island so unique. Have a wonderful Christmas Willy and Sarah, hope the boys enjoy themselves too🎄
Lol love the colours myself everything goes! My decorations most be a total assault on the senses for most people but I love my silly 30 year collection of bright and beautiful so I applaud your wonderful Christmas jolly decor!!🎄😍💋🌌
Really enjoyed another view of Dunvegan! 🤩I stayed there in September. Merry Christmas 🙏🏻🎄🏴❤️
Merry Christmas Willie, Sarah, Jack and Nori…wishing you all a wonderful, happy and healthy new year 🎄🎉🍻
We used to have decorations like that but older, made with crepe paper and pretty sure they had a thread inside to help get them folded back up again after.
The yolk colour varies by what the chickens are fed, caged chickens have chemicals added into their feed to try and ensure the yolk matches up with a standard acceptable colour.
Alternative to standard savoury yorkshire puds is to make them with a sweeter batter and serve filled with stewed fruit like rhubarb, apple, brambles
I will try your Yorkshire recipe this year. I make roast beef and popovers every Christmas and enjoy them the next day as little sandwiches with the cold sliced beef, butter, and a splash of gravy. There is nothing better. According to my knowledge popovers are individuals and Yorkshire pudding is always made in a large roasting pan and cut into servings afterwards. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from New England USA. God bless you both and the dogs as well.
Also Willie that making of the Yorkshire pudding was spectacular. I've never had Yorkshire pudding before. I will have to give you a recipe a try Thanks for sharing.