| Favourite bits of Xmas 08:25 - Dec 11 with 2977 views | Reus30 |
Two weeks away from JCs birthday so let's have what's the best bit about Christmas and what's your worst bit?
Best - Cheese, Cheese and more Cheese. For breakfast, lunch, dinner, post dinner, midnight snack it's all acceptable.
Worst bit - the consequences of eating like a pig for a couple of days. |  | | |  |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 08:39 - Dec 11 with 2089 views | Churchman |
The best:
Good memories of it. Days without commitments. Meeting chums in the run up to Christmas. Christmas dinner. Christmas cake. Cheese - lots of it. Twiglets. Sparkling wine, port, white port, scotch. Christmas tree - a real one, not some moth eaten pipe cleaner from the loft. The fact that daylight hours are increasing. Re-reading A Christmas Carol. Films (see other thread).
The worst:
Christmas jumpers - ‘every idiot who goes about in a Christmas jumper, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.’ - with thanks to Charles Dickens. TV recorded in the summer posing as Christmas. The weather.
Overall, it’s a nice time of year. |  | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 08:59 - Dec 11 with 2039 views | _clive_baker_ |
Best : Seeing family, friends, most people stopping for a few days which really is the only time of year it happens. My wife is a nurse so there's times where she has to work it but fortunately this year has both Christmas day and Boxing day off which we're looking forward to. Having young kids the magic of Christmas for them is so nice to witness. Food as well of course, I'm not fussed about getting gifts at my age, the greatest gift is good food and drink and time with those we love innit.
Worst: Work is full on in the build up and as you say probably the consequences of drinking and eating so much. Jan detox will very much be on the cards for me after the next 2 weeks. |  | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:14 - Dec 11 with 2018 views | Keno |
Best bit - the thought of spending all that time with the family
Worse bit - spending all that time with the family |  |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:16 - Dec 11 with 2022 views | bsw72 |
Personally I find Christmas a bit "meh" these days, spoiled with social pressure to spend, over-eat and over-drink. I love seeing the family, some time off work but the rest of it just seems to encourage the worst in consumerism and consumption.
No doubt my grinch like view is due to all my kids being grown up, so that excitement about Christmas day is gone and some medical issues which means I have to eat a low (almost zero) fat diet and have not drunk alcohol for 10+ years so no cheese or booze.
Anyone for a satsuma or a grape? |  | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:22 - Dec 11 with 1978 views | Ryorry |
00.01am on Boxing Day when it’s all over. |  |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:53 - Dec 11 with 1934 views | Bent_double |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:22 - Dec 11 by Ryorry |
00.01am on Boxing Day when it’s all over. |
You beat me too it, I'm the same! |  |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:58 - Dec 11 with 1923 views | MattinLondon |
I really enjoy most things about Xmas - well apart from ‘family games’ in the evening which I find s**t. Tends to be charades which is s**t. |  | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:01 - Dec 11 with 1920 views | homer_123 |
Best bit: pretty much most of it
Worst bit: the seemingly endless run up to it that starts in August for some bizarre reason |  |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:02 - Dec 11 with 1919 views | EJP |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:53 - Dec 11 by Bent_double |
You beat me too it, I'm the same! |
Same here. We should get sweaters... |  | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:18 - Dec 11 with 1881 views | brazil1982 |
Best - different foods, different music, just a different mood for a couple of weeks. Wotsits. Turkey sandwiches.
Worst - As soon as Boxing Day arrives it's as though Christmas never happened. |  | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:44 - Dec 11 with 1843 views | peterleeblue |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:16 - Dec 11 by bsw72 |
Personally I find Christmas a bit "meh" these days, spoiled with social pressure to spend, over-eat and over-drink. I love seeing the family, some time off work but the rest of it just seems to encourage the worst in consumerism and consumption.
No doubt my grinch like view is due to all my kids being grown up, so that excitement about Christmas day is gone and some medical issues which means I have to eat a low (almost zero) fat diet and have not drunk alcohol for 10+ years so no cheese or booze.
Anyone for a satsuma or a grape? |
or a fig and walnut!! |  | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:47 - Dec 11 with 1838 views | leitrimblue |
Cold meats, pickled onions and cheese. Argh, pigs in blankets. No work for a few days. |  | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:50 - Dec 11 with 1830 views | homer_123 |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:47 - Dec 11 by leitrimblue |
Cold meats, pickled onions and cheese. Argh, pigs in blankets. No work for a few days. |
"Argh, pigs in blankets."
Is that the worst bit? | |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:52 - Dec 11 with 1824 views | leitrimblue |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:50 - Dec 11 by homer_123 |
"Argh, pigs in blankets."
Is that the worst bit? |
No, sorry, one of the better bits. The argh, was for nearly forgetting um | | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:59 - Dec 11 with 1805 views | Ryorry |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:16 - Dec 11 by bsw72 |
Personally I find Christmas a bit "meh" these days, spoiled with social pressure to spend, over-eat and over-drink. I love seeing the family, some time off work but the rest of it just seems to encourage the worst in consumerism and consumption.
No doubt my grinch like view is due to all my kids being grown up, so that excitement about Christmas day is gone and some medical issues which means I have to eat a low (almost zero) fat diet and have not drunk alcohol for 10+ years so no cheese or booze.
Anyone for a satsuma or a grape? |
Similar (Crohns/UC); but in the last few months I've started to be able to eat some fruit & drink beer again in small quantities, after a gap of 30 years. Rediscovering strawberries & cherries has been a joy - had forgotten how superbly sweet & tangy those can be. Cherries are said to be particularly good for CPPD (aka 'false gout').
For Christmas treat, recommend mango & papaya - yum! You can buy them in peeled, ready to eat chunks in Waitrose if you don't want to go the whole hog (whole ones are huge & can be hard to catch at just the right stage of ripeness). | |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 11:03 - Dec 11 with 1785 views | SaleAway |
BEst bits:
Seeing family, lots of good food. Proper downtime
Worst bits:
Travelling between family, relocating every couple of days.
generally positive, as a southerner exiled to the north, its nice to be back and see lots of people that I don't normally get time to see. |  |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 11:11 - Dec 11 with 1753 views | noggin |
x 2.33 pay for three shifts. Can't stand Christmas, so I work every year, which allows someone with young children to have Christmas at home. We both win. |  |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 11:30 - Dec 11 with 1721 views | homer_123 |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:52 - Dec 11 by leitrimblue |
No, sorry, one of the better bits. The argh, was for nearly forgetting um |
Is the right answer. | |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 11:35 - Dec 11 with 1700 views | leitrimblue |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 11:30 - Dec 11 by homer_123 |
Is the right answer. |
I have to confess that I spent a few weeks in December during the late 90,s 'making' pigs in blankets on the night shift at Haverhill Meat products.
I do forget to put that on my CV.. | | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 12:23 - Dec 11 with 1632 views | Churchman |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 10:50 - Dec 11 by homer_123 |
"Argh, pigs in blankets."
Is that the worst bit? |
P in Bs seemed to be the height of high xmas fashion these days. Never had them as a kid. Left over cold sausages (mmm) were a treat mind.
I was buying the xmas sausages and chipolatas from a really good butchers near me on Saturday and they were selling made up pigs in blankets - full size. Very fatty streaky bacon wrapped around said sausages. Looked disgusting tbh. I don’t like fat off bacon or anything else really. P in Bs - not for me. | | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 12:25 - Dec 11 with 1617 views | DJR |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 09:53 - Dec 11 by Bent_double |
You beat me too it, I'm the same! |
Me too, and it's probably due in part to the fact that my parents were Scottish, a country in which, when my parents left, didn't even have Christmas Day as a public holiday. [Post edited 11 Dec 2024 13:54]
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 12:54 - Dec 11 with 1551 views | Churchman |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 12:25 - Dec 11 by DJR |
Me too, and it's probably due in part to the fact that my parents were Scottish, a country in which, when my parents left, didn't even have Christmas Day as a public holiday. [Post edited 11 Dec 2024 13:54]
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Heathen foreigner - you should be banned for that 😃.
I didn’t realise Christmas Day was a working day back in the dim and distant in Scotland. How interesting. The attached gives a summary for ignoramuses like me. CD became a bank holiday in 1958, Boxing Day and NYD in 1974.
https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/scottish-christmas-traditions | | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 13:11 - Dec 11 with 1526 views | J2BLUE |
Best : Time off from work, seeing family, great food, giving gifts
Worst:
Can never match Christmases from childhood
Boxing Day continually devalued and becoming like Black Friday. I hate seeing businesses open at stupid times on Boxing Day. They're ruining Christmas for a lot of people.
Christmas films AFTER Christmas Day. I don't understand this at all.
Depressing when it's over. |  |
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| Favourite bits of Xmas on 13:17 - Dec 11 with 1506 views | hatch |
Common consensus amongst my family and most friends I speak to is that the run up is the best bit. Those pub nights in London in the run up then the ones in cosy Woodbridge pubs like the Kings Head nearer the time and seeing people there I’ve not seen for decades.
Last year we went to the King’s Head on Christmas Day which is not something I’ve done before and it was great. Just for a couple of Adnams.
Worst bit is Christmas Day itself and not knowing what day of the week it is in the days that follow. “I’m free to see you 3 days after Boxing Day” becomes the calendar in my head rather than “Saturday”.
My first Christmas as a father though so maybe it’ll be a touch more magical on the day itself this year. He’s already ripping at the wrapping paper on the gifts under the tree. |  | | |
| Favourite bits of Xmas on 13:39 - Dec 11 with 1465 views | tazdac |
New Year’s Day, just glad when it’s over :o) | | | |
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