3 months left to Christmas

Me too ive got an 18th & 13th birthday to deal with in october so im hoping the girls wont want much for xmas...i can hope i jodies ordered a intuos4 graphics tablet for starters,probably another passing fad that will end up in the bottom draw! and touch screen laptop/tablet of some sort ive no idea with technology ...kids do not have cheap tastes these days

I miss the tangerine and slippers days as a kid but im glad to see the teddys have ceased with the kids now ,them things breed for sure!

 

It's our turn to do the dinner this year. If my grandparents have not already got plans and come to us that makes 20 for dinner with another 5 coming for tea. I love the family get together on Christmas day it's probably the only time that all my family and wife's family come together and it lasts until the early hours of Boxing day. It really is a great day in our family. I cannot believe how fast this year has gone though.

Rusty

 

We'll be doing what we have done for the past five years - going on a cruise! We don't have any family and we started to go away when it got embarrassing turning down invitations to join other people's celebrations "because there was just two of us". This means I don't have to do any shopping, can have turkey just once on Christmas day and there is someone else to make the bed!!

Whatever your plans, have a lovely peaceful time

 

That puts me in the mind of the old paraffin stove we used when I was a little bitty kid!

 

Ahh, memories. One of those nearly killed me when I was a Ziglet.

 

You haven't tried that bottle of Esso Blue Wine I sent you yet then

Carbon Monoxide poisoning, fortunately I came round as my head went under the bath water & managed to drag myself out of the bath. Was throwing up all evening.

 

I like Christmas. I don't go in for the religious aspect of it (christian, pagan or otherwise) other than in the sense that it brings the extended family together for at least one day of the year (if religion can't come up with a tradition that brings families together once per year, then what hope has it got of achieving anything?).

I like to do the cooking now we've moved back home. Last year for the first christmas in nearly 20 years my dad and I were peeling veg together while the womenfolk nattered or whatever they do in the living room and the lad played with all the new stuff Santa had brought him.

Events like christmas are important. They push us to make an effort to keep in touch with everyone when apathy would make us not bother. Its also a free day off work.

 

And it's to our benefit that you did

 

Aww, Armandii won't be thinking that when he's tried the wine