How Christmasssy is it at your place?

[jandl100]

3 christmas cards on display here, I think.

I do like a bit of deco - very nice there, Marco - but we don't do it ourselves.
Will be with Mrs J's family for 'proper' Xmas Day and they will have a fair bit up.

Mind you, after supper they'll have the bloody goggle box on so I'll retire to their conservatory with a book. Can't stand TV, especially xmas crud.

[Joe]

That also happened to me, but after I'd said 'hello' to whoever was visiting, which was only polite, I simply disappeared up to my room and watched it on the portable TV there

My parents never forced me to do anything I didn't want to do, especially in a situation like that where they didn't really want me there (so they could talk about 'adult stuff') any more than I wanted to sit and listen to their pish....
Marco.

Portable TV? Sheer bloody luxury! Once the relatives had been meeted and greeted, we'd all sit down to eat. After the meal/presents distribution, the old folks would sit, booze, reminisce and fall asleep, leaving us young folk to our own devices. It was just that crucial final 30 minutes of TOTP that was lost.

[Marco]

Portable TV? Sheer bloody luxury! Once the relatives had been meeted and greeted, we'd all sit down to eat. After the meal/presents distribution, the old folks would sit, booze, reminisce and fall asleep, leaving us young folk to our own devices. It was just that crucial final 30 minutes of TOTP that was lost.

Lol... Depending on which year you're talking about, I'd likely also have a computer (with games) and some sort of 'music system' up there, too!

My bedroom was my 'den' - a place to escape to when I needed to be on my own, or with friends, well away from adults, so was full of 'toys' to keep me/us amused

Marco.

[Marco]

3 christmas cards on display here, I think.

I do like a bit of deco - very nice there, Marco - but we don't do it ourselves.
Will be with Mrs J's family for 'proper' Xmas Day and they will have a fair bit up.

Mind you, after supper they'll have the bloody goggle box on so I'll retire to their conservatory with a book. Can't stand TV, especially xmas crud.

Cheers, Jerry. Shame you don't do 'deco', as I think you'd be good at it and your house would lend itself nicely to it, too

Marco.

[Joe]

I thought you might when you read the reason why I deleted it - tis a bit of fun.

Here's a thought, I wonder how many people have actually read Luke Chapter 2 and found that the birth date of Christ isn't documented anywhere as 25th December and if you work it out, it's likely to have been in the springtime, or possibly even summer, if you work back to when John the Baptist was born.

Maybe we should have two Christmases, one in December and one in April?

Both Christmas and Easter are based around the dates of pre-existing Pagan festivities (but you probably knew that).

[Tim]

Both Christmas and Easter are based around the dates of pre-existing Pagan festivities (but you probably knew that).

[Joe]

Lol... Depending on which year you're talking about, I'd likely also have a computer (with games) and some sort of 'music system' up there, too!

My bedroom was my 'den' - a place to escape to when I needed to be on my own, or with friends, well away from adults, so was full of 'toys' to keep me/us amused

Marco.

Well, there you go. I shared a bedroom with my little brother. Until he bought a multi-waveband radio, there was nothing in there other than our beds and a chest of drawers, plus it was freezing cold most of the year, being in an unheated extension with three external walls.

[Marco]

Yup, but that doesn't negate tradition. And as a practising Catholic, I've been celebrating the birth of Jesus on December 25th since I was born, and certainly won't be stopping now!

Marco.

[Marco]

Well, there you go. I shared a bedroom with my little brother. Until he bought a multi-waveband radio, there was nothing in there other than our beds and a chest of drawers, plus it was freezing cold most of the year, being in an unheated extension with three external walls.

No worries, different strokes and all that... Why was there no heating - couldn't your parents afford it? I can understand if that was the case, but it doesn't take much to plug in a Dimplex heater or some such, which is what I had in my room, just shortly before the central heating was installed.

If we'd been really hard up, mum and dad would have gone without themselves to ensure that at least I was warm.

Marco.

[Joe]

No worries, different strokes and all that... Why was there no heating - couldn't your parents afford it? I can understand if that's the case, but it doesn't take much to plug in a Dimplex heater or some such, which is what I had in my room, just shortly before the central heating was installed.

The wiring in the room was dodgy, so electric heaters were a no-no. After we'd all moved out, my parents had the whole place re-wired, and central heating put in!