Whilst stood freezing my balls off this morning swapping some outside lights I received a text message from TMH. It was quite a funny text and with frozen fingers I decided to forward it to a friend.
By accident I sent it the the local ASBO officer who hates my guts as I won in court when he tried it on.
TMH can retype the text as I now need to defrost.
Sorry, fell asleep in front of the telly. I see you have typed it out now.
You and me both, in both respects.
Bugger this religious nonsense.
I was going to use the more specific name of Yule(tide) but that's been subverted...
I don't mind Xmas as a religious festival for those who care, but when a large number of people have it in the guise of a eat+drink+bemerry festival, you might as well call a spade a spade.
It's mostly the vomit-inducing commercialism and the "expectations" that piss me off on either camp.
We're going back to basics here - about as far as possible without totally offending family (such as it is).
Tree - tick, OK - the kids did it up and it looks pretty. It's plastic so no buggering about involved.
Cards - well, OK, need a few, but we printed a few that daughter drew herself (sorry Hallmark).
Pressies - strict instructions that all I want to see personally is some choccies, or nothing. Need our money to fix the house. Kids will get one pressie each that is actually proper fun/useful.
Food - no problem with a feast once in a while. We usually cook a good quality chicken or duck as it's enough for a good meal and tastes better than a fat-arsed dried to death took 19 hours to cook turkey. And some cheese, nibbles and beer for odd visitors. Not much extra on a normal shop.
TV - bugger that. Looked on the Topfield PVR for the next week's worth of films. All repeats AFAICS. Even the cinemas have sod all worth watching.
Did pick up a game of Monopoly (some habits die hard). Got the Spongebob version. Same rules, more appealing for the kids. I play Squidward of course (who else?). Very surprised that my 6 year old son was even into it, for a whole hour before he "resigned". I thought that would last 5 minutes. Daughter (8) was marked down as a Donald Trump as she bought everything in sight and mullered the missus :) So that's the pastimes sorted. Have pack of cards as backup.
I'm actually enjoying this winter break (or I will when I finish working) as expectations and obligations have been run into the ground, so we might actually have a bit of fun while everyone else is googling online divorce services ;->>
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It can be amusing to see Father Christmas and reindeer against a backdrop of people in swim suits around a pool and feluccas on the Nile, but otherwise I do my best to avoid Christmas.
Colin Bignell
We went to Egypt one year in order to avoid Christmas. What was the first thing we saw as we walked up the gangplank to our Nile cruise boat? Father Effing Christmas.
Fortunately, apart from the rather good (solid) chocolate Father Xmas in our cabin (which I chopped up and gave to the children at Esna Lock) and the choice of turkey on Xmas Day, that was about it.
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