I’m afraid I’m one of those annoying people that loves Christmas and cant wait to start the celebrations. That means that here at Blimey! HQ when we aren’t busy cleaning carpets, food, decorations and presents (and seasonal blogs) are in my mind from late October. So in true to form style and since its blog writing time I thought I’d share my story about the brining turkey/carpet cleaning disaster that we had at home one year.

Any Nigella Lawson fans out there will know she has a famous way to cook the Christmas turkey, which is to steep it in a large tub of salt water and spices for a few days before cooking to give a jucier bird. (Recipe here.)

Its true this process does work and has been my way of choice for cooking the turkey for a few years now.

The turkey was steeping in a tub on the clean carpet in the dining room.

One year however we weren’t so successful. The boys were quite young, I believe around 5 and 3 and my turkey, due to the small size of my kitchen had been steeping in its tub in the dining room for a couple of days.

Mr Cunnington and I were watching Tv and one of the boys (I wont tell you which one in order to protect the (not so) innocent) unbeknownst to us had wandered into the dining room. We didn’t take any notice, his toy box is in there after all and we continued watching Tv, then Adrian got up to make a drink and something caught his eye.

Adrian came rushing in with a small child laughing its head off.

Cue a huge whooooaaaaaa!!!!!!! No no no! And him rushing into the dining room. The next thing I know he comes crashing back into the lounge carrying a small child that also just happens to be weeing … everywhere…. and laughing its head off.

Seems Adrian had caught one of our dear sons (still not telling you which one) taking a crafty pee in the turkey bucket- and when we asked him how many times he had done this? His answer was simply “only sometimes mummy”.

Now I had a huge dilemma here and Adrian had a trail of wee to get off the carpet- lots in fact, but I could tell which task was going to be easier and it wasn’t deciding what to do about the turkey.

What would you do?

So what would you do? Turkey’s arnt cheap are they lets face it, and neither are the ten or so different spices that went in the brining liquid. And darling son in question is of course wonderful, loved and pure -and his wee can’t be that bad can it?

Well, I can tell you, as you probably have guessed the turkey got a good rinsing off in the sink and it did get cooked. Not only that I served it to my whole family including in-laws on Christmas day. In fact after a glass of wine or two the whole story came out and no-body seemed to mind at all. (I think).

I tweeted Nigella to share the story but funnily enough got no response or re-tweet but there you go- she was probably busy bathing in chocolate or something.

As for the dining room carpet thanks to the quick acting Adrian and the brilliant Texatherm system all traces of wee and smells were removed and it was dry in 30 minutes so my lounge was lovely and clean for Christmas. All in all it was a memorable year.

And the moral of the story is, never trust small children to always use toilets and if the worst happens, you can rely on Floor Blimey! for carpet cleaning, deodorizing and great tasting christmas turkeys.

Have you booked your Christmas clean yet?