who else hates christmas???

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

I love the whole atmosphere, I love putting up the loud and proud out door lights that flash on and off and annoy all the Grinches, I love decorating the tree, the past few years I have cooked full Christmas dinner for my mom as she hasnt been well, this year I have even more lights for the back garden ! The couple of days off is a bonus and then its just 2 weeks of mad sales then its all quiet and lighter nights start to slowly roll in. If it snows even better I drive slowly and safely to work as idiots rush past me and end up in ditches or lamp posts, snowball fights with work friends on empty shoppers car parks and then the pub for a warm meal and a hot toddy.

All in all yes I love it, I bet I can offset all you Grinches

[Guest]

I love Christmas. On what other day of the year could I switch from Marstons Pedigree to home made pints of Snowball and get away with it.

I then get to eat a sack full of roasted spuds without the wife giving me earache about my health. and then I get to spend the rest of the afternoon wondering what i'd said to my sister to make her think i'd like a juggling kit (she bought me one last year - i'm mid 40's and over 20 stone..lol)

[Guest]

No other day of the year is it acceptable (by my missus standards anyway) to drink whiskey for breakfast.

[Guest]

Love it!!! and its even better now the last few years as it starts straigh after Halloween. All the decorations go up around the Towns and even up in some shops...

Andy :chillin::newyear::angel:

[mossiepilot]

I hate, perhaps hate is too harsh a word, but dislike the run-up to Christmas, the running around present buying, trying to think what to get for family and friends, spending too much money on food we wont eat and then staggering home with it all in bags that threaten to burst open at any minute. Also I work in a care home, one of the residents has their christmas tree ready to put up already, so a day off work is a non starter, can't put a dust sheet over little old ladies and gents while you celibrate the festive season. Being encouraged to eat too much food and drink too much booze, I'm not a big drinker anyway.

But the day itself I like, on the whole, watching old film musicals with the care home residents that I've seen a thousand times before and enjoyed every time I see them and christmas specials on the tele, seeing family I haven't seen since last Christmas, and getting presents, most of which I don't really want, but am pleased to receive anyway. and then the best bit - Boxing day and it's all over for another year thank goodness.

Not exactly "Bah Humbug!" indifference, but not overly enthusiastic either, am I strange?

Tony.

[Guest]

you lot disgust me...

this is my idea of a perfect christmas

:vacat:

(i couldnt find another emoticon of a hot brunette wriggling round on my lap though...)

[Andy2035]

Hate it...

[Guest]

I like christmas, just don't like the fact its starts in the shops at the end of august!!!! I think a law should be passed preventing shops from starting christmas displays and stuff till november

Cheers, Andrew

[Guest]

i guess im not the biggest fan either.. my mum is a jehovahs witness (i hate em ) so all my childhood i had no christmas..i decided to leave home and the stupid religon..as a result my mum neglected me and still dont talk to me..where i had no xmas as a child..i suppose i wasnt use to it all..over the years ive adjusted to xmas and i love it only for my kids sake. i get excited for them. but its also a time for family and i dont really have much family. so at the same time it cant be depresssing.i feel sorry for people who dont have anyone at that time of year. and theres also pressure to buy this..buy that..cooking..all for one day..its got its good sides but down sides i reckon.

[Guest]

I dont mind it. Thats about as enthusiastic as I get towards it. I do hate the panic buying when the shops are closed for about half a day now and the adverts for the sales which begin on Dec 26 and Valentines Day stuff which starts to appear immediately afterwards. When my daughter was growing up, we used to take a picture of her putting the fairy on the tree with me helping to lift her up. It was fun to compare them and watch her change from year to year. Not so much fun watching me age from year to year but there you go. This year, we will be taking part in the Christmas Stocking For Heroes campaign, details of which can be found on the Help for Heroes website. Otherwise, it will really be just for the grandkids. Now which model can I get Dan started with...

Keith

[Guest]

Strange this has brought back very happy memories of Christmas.

Used to go with sister mum & dad to Hull from dreary London. Hull dreary, poor old bomb Hull what a mess, as they come with snow & ice & immediately after WW11. But I loved it. For those who know Hull I kicked my first football in East Park.

But the memory of Christmas morning warm & comfortable in bed in my own little room. I listened as the Grand Mother Clock in the living room chimed 5 o clock then the quarters then six then seven etc.

I then carefully silently, not to awake others, crept down stairs. It was an old terraced house with a very cold outside loo where you scrapped away the snow to open the door. Strange but the coal store was in the scullery/kitchen. All those things embedded after all those years.

There in the living room sat my maternal grandfather in his favourite chair in the corner, a Shetlander, dear old Sandy. Thin with white hair he had the fire, part of the built in cooker range, cracking away. The room yet to warm up but just a lovely feeling of being wanted & satisfaction. Grandad cut a thick slice of bread hooked it onto the toasting fork & I at about 7 or 8 years old toasted my own bread in front of that hot fire. Buttered it & ate it just Grandad & I as he sat there, with a smile on his face puffing away on his condor baccy filled pipe, with me his grandson tucking into this succulent piece of well buttered toast.

How is that for a Christmas Morning.

Laurie

[Guest]

laurie..what a cute story.

[saguy]

Hi there ... i am with Richard on this .....my daughter will be 8 and my son is 10 ..... the entire day is just one long roller coaster of fun .. swimming in the pool , braai'ing up a storm , playing with the new toys / gadgets ..... and no work ...cheers ...lindsey

[yak face]

Im not bothered at all about it now, my sons all grown up and left home so its a load of hype for only one or two days off work , i would definitely spend it on a sunny beach if only i could get the time off work ( the price of working in the retail sector) However , i thought lauries account of his morning with his grandad was truly magical , perhaps more so because it reminds us of when this time of year was a lot simpler and not a bit commercialised! tony

[Guest]

Laurie.... that's how Christmas mornings should be