The turkey came out great. Slow cooked all day with celery and carrot in a glass of white wine, a head of garlic, beaucoup de rosemary, sage, thyme, a lemon and a bayleaf. Literally slid off the bone and left us a pot of soup/stock (once we'd picked out the bones) – it's amazing how much liquid comes out, we started with a small glass of wine and now there's a good litre of liquid in the fridge. No faffing around carving. Bloomin' huge turkey though, I don't think we got through a third of it, so if tonight doesn't make significant gains on the remainder we're going to have two very happy and very fat cats. Butcher evidently overestimated our appetite when we ordered for four. Traditionally sized them by eye in the supermarket, this is the first year we've ordered 'blind' at a local butcher.