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Post by merlin on Dec 19, 2011 7:41:46 GMT
I'll be uncharicteristically sociable this year mixing with 'different' people, but the highlight will be the out-door service on Christmas eve, donkey n' all.
Apart from stuffing yourselves (like me) what else have you got planned over Christmas?
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Post by Rosie on Dec 19, 2011 12:12:58 GMT
I will have Sara staying with us on christmas eve then we will all go to Emma and Andy's for dinner and pressie opening  Then will probably drop Sara either at home or at her boyfriend Gordon's house. We will get home, sit on the sofa with a cuppa, sweeties and watch the tv ;D ;D |
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Post by grindle on Dec 19, 2011 12:16:10 GMT
my eldest son, daughter in law and bump arrive on Thursday night all being well, youngest son arrives Christmas Eve, we are being taken out for a meal Friday night, then there we will have a reasonably quiet day Christmas day just in case baby decides it's time to celebrate ;D
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Post by peony on Dec 19, 2011 13:19:09 GMT
We will be joining our son, his wife, her dad, two grandchildren and Ollie the dog for Christmas Day and will spend Boxing Day at home resting, watching TV, and having a few glasses of wine ;D
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Post by sweetpea on Dec 19, 2011 14:50:52 GMT
I'll be uncharicteristically sociable this year mixing with 'different' people, but the highlight will be the out-door service on Christmas eve, donkey n' all. Apart from stuffing yourselves (like me ) what else have you got planned over Christmas?Nothing. cos 'The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley.'As the man said. |
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Post by merlin on Dec 19, 2011 15:21:00 GMT
I'll be uncharicteristically sociable this year mixing with 'different' people, but the highlight will be the out-door service on Christmas eve, donkey n' all. Apart from stuffing yourselves (like me ) what else have you got planned over Christmas?Nothing. cos 'The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley.'As the man said. So, if it doesn't rain you'll be going for your usual dip in the serpentine ;D |
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Post by Louise on Dec 19, 2011 16:43:09 GMT
My xmas day 'event' will happen on xmas eve, when i'll pop up to parents for a couple of hours. God, i seem like a real misery-guts  I like my xmas day to be quiet and relaxed, preferably no more than 2 people and having no 'agenda'. I don't like anything to be regimented timewise and i don't like to have to go out anywhere, i don't like the visitors to stay too long and i love it when the day is over and normality reigns again. The last time i got excited about xmas was when i was 10. These days it's just a lot of hassle that i don't care for - everything's overpriced, peoples minds are everywhere but where they should be and it's a time for kids - that's it ! |
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Post by steve on Dec 19, 2011 16:54:26 GMT
But apart from that do you like it ;D
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Post by merlin on Dec 19, 2011 17:12:21 GMT
But apart from that do you like it ;D ;D It can be a bit of an anticlimax so best not to expect too much  |
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Post by Cherry on Dec 19, 2011 20:57:07 GMT
I really like the honesty of the forum members. Christmas Day is much the same all over really.
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Post by grindle on Dec 20, 2011 5:07:44 GMT
we have the green light son and DIL will definately be coming ;D
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Post by esther on Dec 20, 2011 5:43:18 GMT
we have the green light son and DIL will definately be coming ;D That is great Grindle ;D We will be going to Paul and Louise on Christmas Day- the rest of the family are coming,too and also Louise's Mum and Dad- so there will be 14 of us ;D Iwill be playing with the children and their toys and drinking Sherry for most of the day - the more noise the better ;D My Sister and her family are coming to us for Boxing Day - so there will be 11 of us for lunch which will be cold meats,salads,mash and easy puds |
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Post by grindle on Dec 20, 2011 6:09:17 GMT
 sounds the perfect Christmas to me Esther (I might get to see you in the new year ;D)
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Dec 20, 2011 7:47:35 GMT
It's great your son has decided to make the trip Grindle  This year we have Christmas eve to ourselves  we wake up on Christmas morning on our own  sit in front of the fire opening our stockings in PJs  by the time the OHs parents & brother arrive we will have the floor covered with wrapping paper, sweets and toys. I love Christmas. Then there is visiting friends, friends visiting, mulled wine, loads of food, more mulled wine, liquor coffees, more food and lashings of clotted cream on anything which can take it. How can you not love Christmas? ;D |
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Post by steve on Dec 20, 2011 12:40:10 GMT
The clotted cream games sounds good ;D
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sounds the perfect Christmas to me Esther
