Mab good luck with your operation. Keeping busy and achieving making the biscuits is great idea . Well done .

Me neither cookie but I still remember how delicious they were. The birthday menu sounds delicious Margaret, happy birthday to your DH.

Very exciting Chookie. I bought a new iPad a couple of months ago. I plan to get a new watch in the next couple of months. I get my new phone when DD upgrades hers.
I agree that silly season is here. We have a lunch to attend on Friday and then another on Sunday.

It sounds like a delicious birthday dinner Mab. I haven’t had crumbed cutlets for years.
We’re having a crustless vegetable and bacon slice.

Judy the little plain shortbreads are called Easy Thermomix Shortbread from Create Make & Bake.  The cinnamon ones are called Sugar & Spice Shortbread  from The Annoyed Thyroid.  I made another plain lot yesterday from Recipe Community called Grandma's Shortbread.  I forgot to photograph these before they went into the freezer.  These are all recipes I make every year.
The reason I have started the cooking early is because I maybe going into hospital for an operation on my oesophagas, I'm waiting to hear from the specialist to see if it happens before Christmas.  I'll know more in a couple of weeks.