Making 'Boxing Day' more fun...

SideWinder

SideWinder

SideWinder

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After another awkward/disappointing Boxing Day with my brother, his girlfriend and son (they come over to see my Mum and I), i think we need to mix things up...

Currently it's just presents, meal, playing with the toys (my nephew is 5) but i am thinking we need to go out and do something...showing my naivety, what are my options on Boxing Day? / What do you do?

Thinking a panto?! :p
 
See how long you can run naked through the city centre before being arrested. Be sure to pose with Hovis on head so we know it's you.
 
Dont go out, the weathers bloody horrible in London. Just sit there bored, looking at each other and introduce the odd snide comment. That's a family Christmas tradition.
 
Had about 50 people over, I am regretting it now, some are still here, feel trapped in my own home, keep locking myself in the office for a break.
 
Went for a walk down the coast with the fiancée and her family. As is normal, most of Norfolk thought of the same thing and it was packed!

Did see the largest contingent of seals I've seen for a few years though, so that was nice!
 
chroniclard said:
Still non the wiser. :p
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My fault for making such an obscure reference.

My Latin teacher made the subject more interesting by teaching Latin as a living language, so he included Roman culture, law, religion, etc in his lessons. One of the bits that particularly stuck in my mind was Saturnalia. Partly because it's so obviously where most of Christmas comes from and partly because it was so very different to normal ancient Roman customs (e.g. during Saturnalia it was the custom to dress as a freed slave and pretend social class didn't exist). It was originally a solemn religious observance on one day, but it soon became a holiday season that had little or nothing to do with religion. Some Romans had some complaints about Saturnalia which stuck in my head because they're the same complaints some people today make about Christmas - too commercialised, religious connection lost, too frantic, etc. Pliny wrote about that last point and his solution to it - he retreated to his office(*) to get some much needed peace and quiet. I did have to look up which Pliny it was - elder or younger. Off the top of my head, the only thing I remembered about them that I could definitely tie to one of them was that the elder Pliny died at Pompeii in the Vesuvius disaster.


* Which was actually a seperate building in the grounds of his villa - he was seriously rich - but the general idea is the same as it was for you.
 
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