[shillelagh]

Christmas tradition when i was a kid was fly down the stairs as soon as you woke up and rip open the pressies that santa had left under the tree, then a phone call from ireland on christmas morning from my cousin, play with the games i'd got from santa, then go and get dressed before my sisters and brother arrived, watch the queen (mum always made us watch the queen at 3pm), then fight over where everyone was sitting the only ones who knew where they were sitting was mum & dad everyone else had to fight over sitting on a stool (reaching the table no problem) or sitting on the settee and even then there was arguments on that who was sitting in the middle cos the table leg was in the middle. Then after eating and washing up getting the cards out and playing cards all night until mum had lost all her money and trying to get my brother in laws tin off him!!!