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Less in a Father Christmas outfit would make essential viewingIf you need it Less i still have a Santa suit from one of your better supported accyweb meets if you need it.
Well you are Ok then...if you don't own the red suit trimmed with white fur, you are in the clear.
Yes, it did start in September, and this is one of the reasons why it is such a blooming pain.
I thought I was on my own with my anti christmas stance, I dont trim up, send cards, or wrap presents(its hard wraping a pastie anyway). It would be an advantage if there was an international symbol that meant "keep away I hate christmas", well one that wouldnt get you punched in the face.
The only person im my darkened room is my therapist.
He'll charge you extra for yet again missing an appointment.
Last year, I didn't trim up....the cards languished in a heap on the radiator shelf.....I do buy presents....and I do wrap presents.....this is because I am the woman in this partnership...himself likes to take all the kudos for writing the cards, buying the presents and wrapping them...but it is me really....but he glows with pride if someone says they like the gift we have bought for them.
If it was banned tomorrow....I wouldn't miss it.
the trouble with taking this stance is you get called scrooge, grintch, and miserable.
I dont want to eat easter eggs (i'm diabetic) yet I dont get called a miserable chocolate hater.
I dont want to set off fireworks, and I am not called a miserable anti pyrotechnic.
In fact anything else I don't want to do does not get me stigmastised as scrooge or miserable.
Soon as you say you dont want to get involved in christmas you get all sorts of hissy fits.
The fact that I am to tight to buy presents is beside the point
My parents have also lost all interest in Xmas -they prefer to either go on cruise or just stay at home and do nothing in particular.
Makes me very sad -the last really good Xmas i had was when they came over to us 5 years ago. Christmas to me is a real family time -many of the traditions I follow come through from my own childhood and are little traces of the family even further back...
I don't enjoy the mad spending rush and massive shopping trips to supermarkets that are typical of today.
I do enjoy thinking about and giving gifts, listening to traditional Xmas music and spending a few quite evenings hosting dinner parties for family and friends. (Italian and English cuisine) I buy Xmas crackers on the internet -they don't exist in Italy and are much appreciated here.
I love my 24 yr old fake green tree and it's odd assortment of decorations -each with it's own history - my simple white lights and setting to and making a home-made cake, my own mince-meat and ginger biscuits....as well as the Italian infiltration of home-made ravioli...
It really is the little things that make the magic.
This year i'm just not in the mood - for various reasons- will end up having a mad rush instead of being ahead of the game as i usually am no doubt.
Makes me very sad -the last really good Xmas i had was when they came over to us 5 years ago. Christmas to me is a real family time -many of the traditions I follow come through from my own childhood and are little traces of the family even further back...
I don't enjoy the mad spending rush and massive shopping trips to supermarkets that are typical of today.
I do enjoy thinking about and giving gifts, listening to traditional Xmas music and spending a few quite evenings hosting dinner parties for family and friends. (Italian and English cuisine) I buy Xmas crackers on the internet -they don't exist in Italy and are much appreciated here.
I love my 24 yr old fake green tree and it's odd assortment of decorations -each with it's own history - my simple white lights and setting to and making a home-made cake, my own mince-meat and ginger biscuits....as well as the Italian infiltration of home-made ravioli...
It really is the little things that make the magic.
This year i'm just not in the mood - for various reasons- will end up having a mad rush instead of being ahead of the game as i usually am no doubt.
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oh-oh....that's how it starts...can't find the mood, then it progresses sometimes slowly and insidiously to 'can't be bothered'....then headlong into a general dislike of the festivities....tolerating them for the sake of others.
I do hope not -I'm quite a romantic at heart - it wouldn't take much to lift my mood...
Have received my first 2 Xmas cards today which is a start, from 2 Aunties -hope more are on their way. Hearing from the ones you love is important when you live abroad as I do...but mum's stopped sending cards and so has my sister (sigh)...will have to hope I hear from other family and my friends...
I really am in a pensive mood today...a cup of tea is the remedy -best drink of the day
Have received my first 2 Xmas cards today which is a start, from 2 Aunties -hope more are on their way. Hearing from the ones you love is important when you live abroad as I do...but mum's stopped sending cards and so has my sister (sigh)...will have to hope I hear from other family and my friends...
I really am in a pensive mood today...a cup of tea is the remedy -best drink of the day
I do hope not -I'm quite a romantic at heart - it wouldn't take much to lift my mood...
Have received my first 2 Xmas cards today which is a start, from 2 Aunties -hope more are on their way. Hearing from the ones you love is important when you live abroad as I do...but mum's stopped sending cards and so has my sister (sigh)...will have to hope I hear from other family and my friends...
I really am in a pensive mood today...a cup of tea is the remedy -best drink of the day
Funny that, I'm normally a tea drinker as coffee sends me haywire. The only place I can drink it is in Italy, in those tiny cups that are so small you can hardly get the spoon in.
Shame about the cards, I don't do much for Christmas but I do like to send and receive cards. I decorate with lots of greenery (ivy mainly) and Richard and I always have a proper Christmas dinner, sometimes with an aged relative, but not this year, so we don't have to have turkey (she would turn her nose up at anything else) and can treat ourselves to duck instead. Hooray!
You're right, I keep up some traditions from way back, just for the two of us...
I am THE tea drinker "Par excellence" and get the shakes if i don't have it at regular intervals during the day.
Had to give up the "Espresso" as it was making me a nervous wreck (together with the tea) and could be found wide awake at 2 and 3 in the morning with eyes as big as a Bush-babies!!
I also like to bring in fresh greenery at Xmas, it's a throw-back to the middle ages when it signified the hope that Spring would prevail over Winter....
I never do a "full" Turkey -my "Italian" family don't appreciate it - usually get a Capon given (hand-reared by a local farmer) and we do home-made ravioli stuffed with braised beef, cooked in beef stock for Xmas day -this is typical in N-Italy.
Xmas Eve is always a fish based meal, as is New Year's Eve -I have celebrated the last "umpteen" NY Eve's alone at mid-night, on the phone to family and friends, as my husband always works on these holidays, Xmas and NY, -in order to let the other men on the farm have a day off.
I do still love the traditions that my family had when I was young -like stockings on the bed for the boys first thing and then all opening the main presents together later -and I do take the stockings in when they are in bed even though they are now 24 and 19! (SAD)
Guinea Fowl is a nice aternative to Turkey , quite like duck and recently had Goose for the first time which was really good...
Love Devil's on Horseback too -but that's because I'm evil at heart. Lol!!!
Cracked open the dates today and tangerines -that's a sure sign that Xmas is around the corner. Have been innundated with guests -a couple and their 3 little girls -they've just decided to stay for dinner too plus I have my 2 boys coming one with veggie girlfriend ----aaarrrgh!
Thank god for pasta.....! No peace for the wicked -i really am paying for my sins....
Thank god for pasta.....! No peace for the wicked -i really am paying for my sins....
Two possibilitys there, was it a small goose? (unlikely).
Or
Was it cooked wrong? The meat on a goose seems to shrink away to nothing if cooked at too high a temperature.
Don't know Less but will bear your points in mind if we ever have another.
Meanwhile better luck with this year's duck, I can usually manage those.
The goose I had recently was excellent but it doesn't seem to have as much meat for the size of the frame of the bird as other poultry....
We generally get a Capon at Xmas -reasonable size and everyone seems to like it -no turkey here either Sue!
Our Robin has just returned -saw him for the first time today - that's a sure sign of winter and Xmas coming.
Will be late putting the tree up late this year (Sunday probably) -still not feeling festive though...
One thing the above two posters should remember is, cook your goose on a rack above a tray capable of collecting all the fat.
Not because that makes the goose less greasy,
But the next time you get a chest cold you have an excuse for your loved one to rub something into your skin.
(Doubtful that it is a cure, but what the hey, it will take your minds off the flem filled handkerchiefs!).
Not because that makes the goose less greasy,
But the next time you get a chest cold you have an excuse for your loved one to rub something into your skin.
(Doubtful that it is a cure, but what the hey, it will take your minds off the flem filled handkerchiefs!).