What will you be doing over Christmas?

We will be up early and over to my mums where my brother in law will be with my niece & nephew. Their mum, my big sister, died in May so it is bound to be an emotional day. I have sorted the kids Santa sacks this year to help their dad out and would like to be there early enough to see them open their gifts. I really hope they like them...

Then my brother and his family will come over and we'll all spend the day at my mums. We are going out for Christmas dinner because it is far less stressful than cooking!!
 
Day patient for Angioplasty on Tues, taking it easy over Christmas !
 
I'm working all but Christmas Day and new year's day voluntarily.
I'd work those too but the business is closed.
 
fabs said:
Just me & the missus for Christmas and boxing days.

Off to the yard in the morning to see the horse and wish the other liveries a merry day, a steaming cup of coffee and maybe a mince pie while she mucks out then home for brunch. I'll start cooking dinner at around midday as we're having a 6 hour roasted pork shoulder.
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That last sentence...... Just yum!
 
fabs said:
I'll start cooking dinner at around midday as we're having a 6 hour roasted pork shoulder.
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6 hours? are you sure you're not having the whole pig?
Actually I thought the TP staff Christmas dinner was at your place anyway this year?
:D
 
I'm working, opening the shop for 2 hours then back for dinner. After that, dunno...depends on the prezzies :D

Useless knowledge: Last years biggest Christmas day seller was carrots.
 
Sitting at home with wife, soon is coming home for Xmas day to get his annual one square meal (student) then of to daughter's for boxing day and I was supposed to stay in London until after the new year but I have just took on done extra work..... other than that doing very little
 
gus607 said:
Day patient for Angioplasty on Tues, taking it easy over Christmas !
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All the best for it, Mike. At least you have a good excuse for not doing the washing up!!!

viv1969 said:
I'm working all but Christmas Day and new year's day voluntarily.
I'd work those too but the business is closed.
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Mrs Nod always used to volunteer for the 'tween week and at one place got time and a half for the hours plus time off in lieu! The extra bonus was that the place was dead quiet so she could crack on and get some work done rather than answering stooped questions and running errands for the lazies! Also gave us a good excuse for not going to interminable parties and other enforced jollity.
 
gus607 said:
Day patient for Angioplasty on Tues, taking it easy over Christmas !
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I've had that a couple of times and three stents. Quite an interesting procedure to go through, painless and nothing to be worried about (easy to say in hindsight I know). Hope it goes well as I'm sure it will.
 
I'm finishing work tomorrow lunchtime for 18 days (18.5 if you include friday afternoon). I've got my youngest daughter until Boxing Day so Xmas Day will be me, the other half and the nipper cooking, eating, drinking, sleeping and playing board games. On Boxing Day the youngest heads back to her Mum's and my eldest gets dropped off with me. The following week will be spent undertaking misson impossible to remove the iphone, ipod or tablet from her face and her arse from the sofa.

New Year's Eve will be spent at home watching the end of year review shows on the telly, eating left over turkey and not realising how drunk I'm getting on copious amounts of Southern Comfort.

All in all it's set to be a good Christmas!!!
 
We will be up early Christmas day. Ill go and walk the dog while the Wife feeds/dresses the little'un. When I get back, the Wife will go up to the yard and sort the horses out.

When she gets back we will do the prezzie bit and ill take a stupid amount of photos of the baby playing with boxes (instead of her prezzies). Bit of brekkie. We will go round to see my Sister at her house about 9:30/10:00am, where my Mum, Dad (as they now feel able to be in the same room as each other), Nieces and Nephew will be, and again do the prezzie thing. We will probably only be there about 2 hours, then go home and ill make a start on the Dinner.

Eating, playing with baby, cup of tea, watch crap on tv, then my Dad will be coming to us for a bit of late afternoon/early evening snackage. Wife will go back up to the yard and get the horses back in, Baby will go to bed, and that will be Christmas over again for another year :D

Boxing Day...S F A!
 
Just keeping it cheap and cheerful here by chillaxing in my hobby room watching TV - much like a typical day, really (depends how my elderly mother is as she has her good days and bad days with her colitis and fading memory).
 
Sitting at home pulling me pudding and steaming me pork.
No hang on, thats not quite right...
 
Dunno, sounds like a plan to me!!!
 
Cg_Girl said:
I'm being nosy! :P

Who has got loads to cook for or going out?

It's just my daughter and I xmas dinner and then Boxing Day I'll be on my own, so it really is a very quiet one!

I'm not complaining... Pjs films and chocolate.... Bliss :D
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same as I do every other day of the year
 
As little as possible, relaxing, eating chocolate and generally recharging batteries. I am doing a few hours photographing the homeless and specifically their animals at a drop in centre on 29th for my usual charity but thats about as far I am likely to venture from the house apart from dog walking.
 
Christmas Eve trip the the cinema with friends, kinda a family tradition now Christmas and Boxing Day, just family over so cooking and entertaining, 27th we've open house so lots coming. Rest of the time I'm working and on call out of hours.
 
I shall be spending most of the day in my pj's, playing with my 6 year olds presents (and maybe a few of mine), before eating beef stew and dumplings. No sign of the outlaws this year. Can't wait :D
 
We're going all out family day this year. Dad is going into hospital on the 30th for a cancer op so myself, my partner, my brother, his wife, their two girls and me mum are having a huge turkey and veal dinner after presents and Frozen on the telly!
 
Keith W said:
It will be just me this Christmas, my wife & I parted company the end of October :(
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The first Christmas is always the roughest, especially when you're told on the 16th of December, but it's a good way to find out who your real friends are, and it really does get better, in my case very much better by the next one.
 
gus607 said:
Day patient for Angioplasty on Tues, taking it easy over Christmas !
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Good luck with that

It is brilliant to be able to warch if your clinic has big screens to watch.

The boring bit is lying down after while the entry wound seals.

I have had 3 in 8 years and all were femoal artery in the groin entry points.

Rest up as suggested and no sfreet hoops in the 'hood

Steve
 
24th, German Christmas day, we're at German Granny for goose.
25th, British Christmas Day*, my ex and her boyfriend bring a turkey over in the side car of their motorbike for dinner. (They found a helmet to fit it, but need to strap it in to a rooster seat.)
Then fly to the UK for a 3rd Christmas dinner with English Granny in Oxford.

*German Jesus was born 1 day before British Jesus. I guess.
 
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Christmas day.... hopefully the weather wil be kind, and I'll be able to get up early doors, and out on the pushbike for a few hours - build up a bit of a calorie defecit/appetite for the resat of the day...

I've done this the last few years - it's great going out there, half the time the only other people out on their bikes are the ones that have got a new bike from Santa :) - last 2 years, I've had to stop and help people who've gone for a ride and had "mechanicals" on the new bike (i.e. halfords had not built it properly... and I know it was Halfords, as they were on Boardman bikes...), and in one case fix a puncture for someone who didn't realise it was a good idea to take a spare innertube and a pump with them if they were going out 20 miles from home :banghead:

Boxing day, again, hopefully plenty of miles on the bike to try and offset the gluttony, and I'm going to try and avoid the pub if possible... mainly as I'm supposed to be packing my kit for a few days in the lakes with the lads - which should be okay (again, weather permitting) - bit of walking, some good food, good company, maybe even a few drinks... who knows, I may even actually remember to take my camera with me this year.
 
Christmas Day, or Thursday as it will be known, will be spent with my Dad. He's coming over to me. I used to go to theirs for Christmas day but as my Mum passed away recently and my Dad can't cook anything I'd ever risk eating yet I decided to be lenient and invite him over. I did think I was going to ignore the day entirely as the change of plan has been all rather sudden.
 
I`ll be doing my bit for the Italian economy by drinking as much of their red wine as possible on Christmas day,working all other days.
 
Joys of shift work means I'm spending my Xmas at work! And on call overnight, so a dry one for me :(
 
gus607 said:
Day patient for Angioplasty on Tues, taking it easy over Christmas !
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Went in Tues am & came home Tues pm. Four "Stents" in both Femoral arteries (two each side)

Had a walk with the missus to church this morning & could not believe after nearly a year I was able to walk absolutely pain free !

What a Christmas present !
 
gus607 said:
Went in Tues am & came home Tues pm. Four "Stents" in both Femoral arteries (two each side)

Had a walk with the missus to church this morning & could not believe after nearly a year I was able to walk absolutely pain free !

What a Christmas present !
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Nice one. Long may it last.
 
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