Is anyone else here not doing Christmas ?

stickyfiddle

We're having the first christmas since getting married, and 4000 miles from any relatives, so we've got a nice bottle of champagne and will be having all the trimmings. Not bothered about all the surrounding stuff though. 

Most people out here go to all-you-can-eat pissup brunch for xmas. Just doesn't feel right to me.

chillidoggy

Emp_Fab said:

Only kidding matey....  You've got enough money to buy several christmas trees and a holiday in Floridia.  You can still be my 'scrub' as I believe the ethnic minority youth refer to them as.  Yo.

For real, I is yo biatch, innit.

Neil

Love it.

Time with my family, nice bit of grub and plenty of Christmas spirit.

Grunfeld

No Christmas here.  No decorations, no tree, no booze, no gf; just me and two bloody guinea pigs and they don't do Christmas either. 

Gonna pop over to see some mates on Christmas day, and probably go for a long walk or bike ride to clear the bats from the belfry.

chillidoggy

Disaster!

The "top-floor where nobody ever ventures" plastic tree-base is broken! Despite the liberal application of gaffa tape, it's been diagnosed as terminal. Mrs C is now unsettled, and debating whether to brave the howling gale and pissing rain outside and buy another.

Needless to say my hoots of laughter on hearing the news were seen as unhelpful, as was the suggestion that a tree cull that didn't involve a chainsaw would probably be a good thing. This response will inevitably have repercussions, but one has to take one's pleasures where one can.

bertie

think of me,  for on the morrow I drive west,  to collect ma of bert  to come stay for 5 days...............5 looooooong days................christmas eve while mrs bert  is out gigging is going to be very very very long.............................but then Friday night is going to be

PARTY

Roland

I have some sympathy with @Emp_Fab. The rampant commercialisation of Christmas irritates me, not for religious reasons, but because I dislike the buy, buy, buy mentality. We have put up a tree and decorations, but only in the last few days, and we haven't sent any cards.  That's partly through personal circumstances: it's been a crap year for both of us.  However I do detect a wider dis-satisfaction across the country with what Christmas has been hyped up to be, and current economic situation seems to have popped the bubble for many people.

monquixote

My family don't get together for Christmas and a few years ago the wife's family moved to doing a secret santa so I have to buy presents for my santee, four nephews and nieces and my daughter and that's all easy as kids have Christmas lists and want things you can find in Toys R Us. 

The wife and I haven't bothered with presents as there is nothing we want (well I want one of the 20th anniversary Feline Lions, but that's not going to happen) 

The wife does Christmas dinner for her whole family at her dads and has done every year since her mum died so I go there. They all actually have fun and like each other so it's a good time. 

littlegreenman

Littlegreenwoman will be in the United States of Canadia for Christmas this year so not bothering with it much. Thankfully Canada Post managed to deliver my parcel so she'll have nice smellies and stuff to open from me (looks like they fooked up hers though so I'll do Christmas some time in March )

I'll probably watch a suitably festive movie, but given that this time of year is when me dear old mum was rapidly diagnosed and downhilled with the big C a few years back, it's lost most of its charm.

I wonder if the takeaway over the road are doing a turkey pizza?

johnnyurq

monquixote said:

My family don't get together for Christmas and a few years ago the wife's family moved to doing a secret santa so I have to buy presents for my santee, 

The wife and I haven't bothered with presents as there is nothing we want (well I want one of the 20th anniversary Feline Lions, but that's not going to happen) 

Is that a mutant comprising santa and a manatee?

I'm with you on the Feline Lions and I ask Santa for one every year and have been given a rubber every time.

One year I will save my pennies and get one.

jd0272

ourmaninthenorth said:

A long walk in the woods holding hands with the Missus, saying good morning to neighbours, who spend the rest of the year ignoring each other. Nice and simple, just how I like it. 

Good God, saying good morning to the neighbours???? I think not. They still need the 'Daily Growl' to keep them from blocking my parking access. Knobs.

jd0272

bertie said:

think of me,  for on the morrow I drive west,  to collect ma of bert  to come stay for 5 days...............5 looooooong days................christmas eve while mrs bert  is out gigging is going to be very very very long.............................but then Friday night is going to be

PARTY

Stop ya whinging. Ma of Bert is probably looking forward to seeing Bert. We're all really looking forward to seeing my parents. So much so, me, the wife, the 3 kids are staying over on the 25th. Then promptly fucking off sharpish on the 26th.    

monquixote

johnnyurq said:

monquixote said:

My family don't get together for Christmas and a few years ago the wife's family moved to doing a secret santa so I have to buy presents for my santee, 

The wife and I haven't bothered with presents as there is nothing we want (well I want one of the 20th anniversary Feline Lions, but that's not going to happen) 

Is that a mutant comprising santa and a manatee?

I'm with you on the Feline Lions and I ask Santa for one every year and have been given a rubber every time.

One year I will save my pennies and get one.

I wish it was. 

It is the one upon which you santa. 

johnnyurq

Ah I see that makes perfect sense now. :-\"

But we may have inadvertently created a new monster for a Xmas horror flick.

chillidoggy

My mother is with us for Christmas Day. I've got to go and collect her, bring her back here, do the festive bit and have lunch, then drive her back home again. I'm not saying relations are strained between them, but Mrs C wants to plate up her Chrimbo dinner and have me take it over there so save any hassle.

EricTheWeary

chillidoggy;111624" said:

My mother is with us for Christmas Day. I've got to go and collect her, bring her back here, do the festive bit and have lunch, then drive her back home again.

I have to do that with my ma in law. Last year ma in law and my ma, separate journeys so about 4 hours of Xmas day was driving and the bit inbetween was conversations about dead relatives.

chillidoggy

Yes, it's funny how my mother only seems to talk about acquaintances that have died, or got some (usually terminal) illness. What with that and telling me all about her own ailments, how wonderful her neighbours are, and what good friends she has that do everything for her (this to make me feel guilty), it's difficult to get a word in edgeways.

Emp_Fab

Oh I do hope my mother keeps her 'everyone's a bastard and they're all out to get you' tales of joy to herself this year.  To be fair, sometimes we have a right laugh - but other times she leaves me feeling emotionally drained and depressed.  It all depends on her mood.

ourmaninthenorth

jd0272 said:

ourmaninthenorth said:

A long walk in the woods holding hands with the Missus, saying good morning to neighbours, who spend the rest of the year ignoring each other. Nice and simple, just how I like it. 

Good God, saying good morning to the neighbours???? I think not. They still need the 'Daily Growl' to keep them from blocking my parking access. Knobs.

Pretty much the same as that. However to confuse them a bit, I sometimes say hello in as jovial a way as is possible through gritted teeth. My missus asks me "what have they done to you to dislike them as much as you do?" my reply "they live next door to me". My ideal house would be a lighthouse. 

Col_Decker

Shut up you bitches you love Christmas and you know it. I bet by 2pm on crimbo afternoon you'll be changed into your onesie and rocking out to a bit of Cliff Richard. Then, and only then you'll be a God damn sexual tyrannosaur, just like me.