[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-why-do-i-agree-to-do-this-stuff":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmasbazar08_1-8a85f64abc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA few weeks ago, Stuart came home saying he'd promised we'd set up a Russian stall for the Christmas fayre at our local church, which had an 'international' theme this year. So he got to be the one yesterday to go to the Sputnik shop in Lewisham to pick up various odds and ends, and I dug out my enormous Russian festival dress. (I once fit six  people inside it.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmasbazar08_2-62cb9a0151.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nNeither of us are Russian, but the fake Women's Institute had already taken the English table and I didn't really feel like doing an American table. (It's much more fun to parody a culture that isn't one's own, I say...) Our table featured Russian gingerbread biscuits, a sort of traditional Russian cola called \u003Ci>kvass\u003C/i> (which is much nicer than \u003Ca href=\"http://benchilada.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">benchilada\u003C/a> \u003Ca href=\"http://benchilada.livejournal.com/738349.html\">says it is\u003C/a>), assorted chocolates from the Red October factory in Moscow, and black caviar on bread. \\r\n\\r\nNot everyone was dead keen on the caviar.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmasbazar08_5-567139004b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more More pics here-->\\r\nTulla and Mdadi at the Nigerian table:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmasbazar08_4-e1ec0a786a.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmasbazar08_3-2afeb67116.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe English held their own:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmasbazar08_10-3b5c5d8644.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd some karaoke Christmas singsong at the end:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmasbazar08_6-6dc2a3ea01.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmasbazar08_7-fef1d408ca.jpg\">","2008-12-14T16:10:00.000Z","why-do-i-agree-to-do-this-stuff",[],"why do i agree to do this stuff? / русский базар",1776628725410]