Must Be Xmas

[Scooby]

Its very quiet on here i guess everyones getting ready for the xmas rush...

[Steve]

Im trying to avoid it! Enjoyed it when the kids were young but find most of it a bind these days. Most folks I know feel the same now, very very commercial I think

[Scooby]

Sadly i agree its to commercial now kind of lost its direction as to what this day represents.. already had the wish list from my grandkids

[Steve]

I think my issue is that it starts too early every year (advertisers trying harder and harder to get our money first). Ive stopped watching mainstream telly for various reasons but even streaming stuff is crammed with Xmas ads from October onwards, its just too much for me and I get jaded before its even here. If it all started around mid Dec and was dead and buried after Boxing day I would love it (I think) Im agnostic so it all has no religeous meaning to me at all.

[Derek]

I love Christmas, having Grandchildren and Great grandchildren is what makes it for me, the noise the chaos the decorations and even some of the music, John Smith helps too though.

[Steve]

Thats amazing Derek and I would definately love that. My kids are all over the World now and no grandkids yet but sure it will come at some point. Christmases will be mainly in Australia then so not the same in the Summer somehow

[Dave999]

don't worry fellas, the cadbury's creme eggs will be on the shelves of your local CoOp on boxing day...
or if you are getting on a bit, Fry's creme eggs.
Although for them, we'd be talking the era of the "Watney cup" and everyone in your local drinking Light and Bitter.

the christmas list is a blessing and a curse.. seems so mercenary, but when you live a long way away from your family and the place you were born, you only get to see them a few times a year you don't get the feel for what they like anymore

when i left home my sister would have been happy with a picture of Morten Harket and an Ah_ha record
30 odd years later i think her tastes have changed.....
although Morten has aged well...

my mother in law has a lot of small owl ornaments. I know she really couldn't care less about getting another... never had any preference for owls in the first place... ex teacher and the kids got her 3 one year, and from then on everyone went owl mental.... Jean loves owls....No, No she doesn't.

then some bright spark says shall we just do secret santa and limit it to £10.... NO

I thought we'd have jambalaya for christmas lunch... NO! Good God NO!

I come from the north east.
Tradition dictates that you re mortgage the house and max the credit cards for Christmas...that's how you do it.... go completely mad for 2 weeks. Booze, food, mountains of daft tat for the kids... indoor fireworks daft rubbery little men that slime down the window, horns and guns, and a slinky walking down the stairs, wind up duke of hazzard wrist racers, and far too much to eat.... Queens speech, Christmas top of the pops, where eagles dare... Ben hur on boxing day.... carols from kings, Grandpa snoring by 3:30. Enforced WALK.....trudge over Nuns Moor or down to leazes park and back in -5*C wearing you new gloves...scalextric, tangerines, too much sherry, half drunk cans of McEwans export in the sink etc .....proper!

I come from afar, bearing gifts of Gold Frankenstein and Moss

if you are gonna do it.... may as well do it right..... daft jumper and a new second hand bike, a mate of your dad's sprayed up in the garage during the cold spell in october looks a bit lumpy BUT chain guard and bell are new new, different colour and still got the Raleigh sticker on, tell your mates its a custom job !

i'll have baby-cham

Tata

dave

[Steve]

Brilliant Dave, just as it was in Scotland when I was a kid, right down to the slinky spring!!! Only difference was that my mum was the only person in the family who liked to drink and that was just a snowball (Warninks Advocat with lemonade). Dad always got a new Measham pipe bowl, some St Bruno ready rubbed tobacco and a hat. I always got a 'Look and Learn' annual and they had tales of Space travel and shipwrecked men fighting sharks on the Indian Ocean on homemade rafts....great times. I actually remember the annual in this picture....

[rocket70]

Dave that is brilliant...hilarious.

Jambalaya for lunch

[morgan]

don't worry fellas, the cadbury's creme eggs will be on the shelves of your local CoOp on boxing day...
or if you are getting on a bit, Fry's creme eggs.
Although for them, we'd be talking the era of the "Watney cup" and everyone in your local drinking Light and Bitter.

the christmas list is a blessing and a curse.. seems so mercenary, but when you live a long way away from your family and the place you were born, you only get to see them a few times a year you don't get the feel for what they like anymore

when i left home my sister would have been happy with a picture of Morten Harket and an Ah_ha record
30 odd years later i think her tastes have changed.....
although Morten has aged well...

my mother in law has a lot of small owl ornaments. I know she really couldn't care less about getting another... never had any preference for owls in the first place... ex teacher and the kids got her 3 one year, and from then on everyone went owl mental.... Jean loves owls....No, No she doesn't.

then some bright spark says shall we just do secret santa and limit it to £10.... NO

I thought we'd have jambalaya for christmas lunch... NO! Good God NO!

I come from the north east.
Tradition dictates that you re mortgage the house and max the credit cards for Christmas...that's how you do it.... go completely mad for 2 weeks. Booze, food, mountains of daft tat for the kids... indoor fireworks daft rubbery little men that slime down the window, horns and guns, and a slinky walking down the stairs, wind up duke of hazzard wrist racers, and far too much to eat.... Queens speech, Christmas top of the pops, where eagles dare... Ben hur on boxing day.... carols from kings, Grandpa snoring by 3:30. Enforced WALK.....trudge over Nuns Moor or down to leazes park and back in -5*C wearing you new gloves...scalextric, tangerines, too much sherry, half drunk cans of McEwans export in the sink etc .....proper!

I come from afar, bearing gifts of Gold Frankenstein and Moss

if you are gonna do it.... may as well do it right..... daft jumper and a new second hand bike, a mate of your dad's sprayed up in the garage during the cold spell in october looks a bit lumpy BUT chain guard and bell are new new, different colour and still got the Raleigh sticker on, tell your mates its a custom job !

i'll have baby-cham

Tata

dave

I love this.. and can identify with much of it. (Dukes of Hazzard wrist racer !!! OMG !! )