Christmas Morning
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Yup.
I would love to get Christmas day off. We have a fully booked restaurant to make food for this year.
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I have spent Christmas with my mum in Bishops Lydeard. I get up around 7am and take my dog for a walk. The year we had snow was amazing. It was -11 degrees but the sun was shining and the snow glistening. There was absolutely no one about and I could hear complete silence. Wish I could do that every morning.
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Ill be having a lazy day in bed, its the only day off i get in December.
This is the first Christmas for my son, so goodness knows what it'll hold in store. We've already told the in-laws that we won't be seeing them though.
Our typical traditions revolve around getting up around 8am, opening some small stocking presents, breakfast (typically Pop Tarts on xmas day), getting dressed / showered, presents, dinner.
Our typical traditions revolve around getting up around 8am, opening some small stocking presents, breakfast (typically Pop Tarts on xmas day), getting dressed / showered, presents, dinner.
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Get up at around 9am. Smoke salmon and scrambled eggs with a glass of bucks fizz. I then usually polish off the rest of the bottle of champagne, get my beer head on and slowly get sozzled whilst cooking the dinner which I try and prep as much as possible the afternoon before as I usually end up in the pub on Christmas Eve.
Nothing, its just another day for me albeit with nothing open so its like a ghost town out on the streets.
What i did do last yr is that me and the missus drove up to Manchester to see some friends and the motorways were pretty much empty so win win
This yr im planning on taking the missus to the maldives for xmas for a couple of weeks, want to see how they celebrate xmas somewhere nice and hot
What i did do last yr is that me and the missus drove up to Manchester to see some friends and the motorways were pretty much empty so win win
This yr im planning on taking the missus to the maldives for xmas for a couple of weeks, want to see how they celebrate xmas somewhere nice and hot
Hate it TBH
My old man is a miserable *******.
"too much mess"
"too loud"
"cost too much"
"who left the lights on...wasting electricity"
blah blah blah
He'll get drunk and act a complete **** after a while.
I avoid it at all costs.
My old man is a miserable *******.
"too much mess"
"too loud"
"cost too much"
"who left the lights on...wasting electricity"
blah blah blah
He'll get drunk and act a complete **** after a while.
I avoid it at all costs.
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Go to midnight mass on Christmas eve.
Get up.
Have breakfast.
Go to church.
Have a big meal.
Offer and receive gifts.
Go for a walk weather depending.
Play games or watch tv.
Get up.
Have breakfast.
Go to church.
Have a big meal.
Offer and receive gifts.
Go for a walk weather depending.
Play games or watch tv.
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Christmas Eve - Me and the Girlfriend pop over to my parents house to have our traditional Christmas Eve steak dinner, my granny will be there as she stays at my parents until Boxing Day, as will my sister and her boyfriend. After the meal we hang about for a bit, then leave and I drop the gf round to her mum's house where she will stay over as is tradition. Ill leave there at some ungodly hour and go home to walk the dog and get a few hours sleep.
Christmas Day - Up at around 10, get a shower then make my way over to my parents just as my granny gets back from church. Help with the cooking if its needed and then its off to open presents. Check on the turkey and frantically eat as much of the delicious bacon covering it as I can, before the rest of the family finishes it all. Christmas dinner is usually around 2. Recover from epic Christmas dinner for about an hour, then leave and head back up to my gf's mum's to be told how awesome I am for getting her some awesome present she didnt even know she wanted. Stay round there for a couple of hours then we both head home to relax and compare loot. Back round to my parents at around 8 for turkey and stuffing sandwiches, and watch whatever film is on at the time. Off home around 10 and generally be fat and lazy.
Boxing Day - Sleep in until lunchtime, generally be lazy until around 4pm when we leave and go to my other grannys for 2nd christmas dinner. Another equally awesome meal done, we sit about for an hour or two being social, before leaving and heading back over to my gfs mums. Once there we lay into whatever cocktails happen to be being served, and get merry (read: plastered).
Christmas Day - Up at around 10, get a shower then make my way over to my parents just as my granny gets back from church. Help with the cooking if its needed and then its off to open presents. Check on the turkey and frantically eat as much of the delicious bacon covering it as I can, before the rest of the family finishes it all. Christmas dinner is usually around 2. Recover from epic Christmas dinner for about an hour, then leave and head back up to my gf's mum's to be told how awesome I am for getting her some awesome present she didnt even know she wanted. Stay round there for a couple of hours then we both head home to relax and compare loot. Back round to my parents at around 8 for turkey and stuffing sandwiches, and watch whatever film is on at the time. Off home around 10 and generally be fat and lazy.
Boxing Day - Sleep in until lunchtime, generally be lazy until around 4pm when we leave and go to my other grannys for 2nd christmas dinner. Another equally awesome meal done, we sit about for an hour or two being social, before leaving and heading back over to my gfs mums. Once there we lay into whatever cocktails happen to be being served, and get merry (read: plastered).
As an atheist I have zero interest in Christmas and I'd gladly take no part in it whatsoever (I already refuse to accept and receive cards and gifts and tell my work to ram their secret santa). My mum wouldn't be best pleased at me bumping the family dinner though.
Really ? Never heard of that before !
Moved out of the family home. and won't be in Cornwall for xmas this year, will be spending xmas morning and I suspect most of the afternoon on my own, then my Mrs is coming over when she has finished spending time with her family to spend the rest of the festive period with me.
This will be the first christmas in about 5yrs that I've not be working a door on christmas eve so I'm looking forward to being bright eyed and bushy tailed rather than shaken awake by my dad after 3 hours sleep telling me it's time to haul arse to the pub for a few beers before my mum herds us up for dinner.
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For me it is going to be different this year.
As im in Germany I will be going to my girlfriends parents and spending the day there n the 24th (German Christmas). Presents in the afternoon and a nice meal in the evening. Think we are having a huge Raklet (cheese) meal. Traditional i think.
Then on the 25th which is obviously the English christmas, I will be waking up, cracking open a few beers. Chilling out hard whilst my girlfriend goes to her grand parents, and then at about 6pm there is a huge party untill 12 boxing day.
Should be different this year
As im in Germany I will be going to my girlfriends parents and spending the day there n the 24th (German Christmas). Presents in the afternoon and a nice meal in the evening. Think we are having a huge Raklet (cheese) meal. Traditional i think.
Then on the 25th which is obviously the English christmas, I will be waking up, cracking open a few beers. Chilling out hard whilst my girlfriend goes to her grand parents, and then at about 6pm there is a huge party untill 12 boxing day.
Should be different this year
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Will get up at around 6am with my daughter, then spent 2hrs opening her presents and playing with each one.
Have a shower, get dressed and a bowl of cereal around 8am, and relax on the sofa with some cheesy Christmas cd while the wife and I exchange gifts.
Not sure if we'll pop over to my mum's around 10, to say hi etc, but were going to the mother in law's for dinner so will inevitably end up there around 11.
Spend 4 or 5 hours there for food and more presents, then head to my mums for tea and a drink.
Go home around 8 or 9 depending on how well our daughter is coping and then we'll chill out at home with a cheesy film.
Have a shower, get dressed and a bowl of cereal around 8am, and relax on the sofa with some cheesy Christmas cd while the wife and I exchange gifts.
Not sure if we'll pop over to my mum's around 10, to say hi etc, but were going to the mother in law's for dinner so will inevitably end up there around 11.
Spend 4 or 5 hours there for food and more presents, then head to my mums for tea and a drink.
Go home around 8 or 9 depending on how well our daughter is coping and then we'll chill out at home with a cheesy film.
Leisurely breakfast, clearing up from Christmas Eve, cooking, being a taxi driver. Yes, it all takes time.
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Get up around midday, finish dinner prep and get stuff in the oven. From there, open presents, start eating crap, crack open the booze and play games/watch movies for the rest of the day (besides eating dinner).