It's Christmas tomorrow and once again it will be ruined by the presence of children, running around shouting and squealing with excitement, spreading wrapping paper everywhere, and demanding that grandparents take an interest in their dull little acquisitions when all we we want to do is drink and snooze. Has no enterprising person thought to start some sort of remand centre into which we could put the children over the holiday period? Then we could have a proper Christmas.
Bill
Your shed?
Is that for the drinkers and snoozers, or the children?
Owain
You can have a proper Christmas if you want.
I'm going to act like a child:-)
Who got out of the wrong side of bed this morning then?
There's often advice given about this, oddly on things like plastic bags, or chemicals. 'Keep away from Children'.
;-)
Luckily we have been free of any such horrors for a good few years now and better, don't have *any* Xmyth trappings to clear up after the (non)event either.
Not sent an Xmyth card for 30 years but give some money to the local hospice or 'Bakers and Sweeps' instead.
The 'problem' comes from those who either don't know we don't partake (so generally only quittances) and feel the need to give us presents. Any cards we get (and it might have been 3 or 4 this year) just go straight in the recycling (if we tell someone we would prefer not to be sent a card and they still do then they have already set the tone of the proceedings). ;-)
I don't know how much of all this Xmyth lark people do is habit or the fear of 'being different' / humbug versus actually wanting to do it all? From the amount of stress you see people under it can't be for the fun?
So, I just look forward to the world / suppliers and delivery services to get back to normal (as I need some steel stock to get on with a project). ;-)
Cheers, T i m
Yes, it is odd to see sensible advice in strange places. I mean, why do lollipop men broadcast the contraceptive advice 'Stop Children'?
Or some of us just like what we like? ;-)
I think this can sum some of it up (inc a comment from Mary Fisher). ;-)
Cheers, T i m
A sort of nativity Auschwitz?
In message , Woody writes
Perhaps that's where Bill is going wrong. I imagine that, like most of us, he always gets out on the same side, and maybe it's the wrong one. If he tried getting out on the other side, perhaps he would be a regular little ray of sunshine.
In message , Mark Carver writes
There's even been a TV advert on recently that included those words. I always tell the TV that I do try to, but that it can be difficult at times.
Euro Disney ?.
But that might mean climbing over Hil, and she might get the wrong idea
Owain
Christmas all year then. ;->
Well a few weeks ago there was a local market and exhibition of craft stuff which proclaimed Entry ?2 Children free.
Brian
Yes.
And for the next week I can forget about work. No alarm clock, no H&S regs, no method statements, no schedules, no apprentices, no inductions and the chance to draw a large penis in the sand with the gf's lad to annoy the old farts at Filey on the morning of 27th of December.
I'll post a picture.
Did your ancestors do this one?
Mmmmm, classy!
I have no intentions of growing up.
Life is too short for that.
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