How Christmasssy is it at your place?

[Marco]

You want Bond before and during the meal, ideally Spy Who Loved Me or Moonraker. Diamonds Are Forever is also acceptable. For Xmas night, Zulu, and then for Boxing Day 'A Bridge Too Far' in the afternoon then maybe an earlier Connery Bond in the evening. Finish up with some episodes of Bilko until the booze runs out then off to kip.

Now that's a proper Xmas.

Lol... LOVE all those films, *but* when Christmas lunch is being served, I'm too busy eating, drinking and chatting to friends and family to be watching TV! And lunch can go on for many hours...

Marco.

[Marco]

He's very talented lets just leave it at that.

Marco.

[Marco]

The last time I put decorations up was the early 90s and only because my girlfriend refused to come round if I didn't - she won!

Enjoy though folks, nice looking rooms, always love a real fire and hope to have one when I move. Always amuses me when people call me bah-humbug and grumpy cos' I don't do Christmas. Doesn't make me grumpy, just not interested as I'm not religious and not into the consumer/consumption side, because of how I live my life . . . but apparently that means I'm grumpy

I've undeleted that post, as you worry too much, daftee!

Nothing wrong or offensive there with what you've written - and I don't think you're grumpy at all! If you don't 'do' Christmas, you don't do Christmas. It's cool

Oi LURVES it, just in case you haven't sussed that

Marco.

[Macca]

I like Xmas too just don't like to see it dragged out for 3 months. A couple of days before and after the 25th and that's enough for me.

[Macca]

Lol... LOVE all those films, *but* when Christmas lunch is being served, I'm too busy eating, drinking and chatting to friends and family to be watching TV! And lunch can go on for many hours...

Marco.

Many years of practice means I have mastered eating and watching TV at the same time. Anyway not an option at my bro's house as his mrs won't allow a TV in the kitchen diner. And Zulu is considered 'too violent' for the children to watch. Last year I got told off for watching Ghandi, and he barely kills anyone!

[Marco]

Many years of practice means I have mastered eating and watching TV at the same time. Anyway not an option at my bro's house as his mrs won't allow a TV in the kitchen diner. And Zulu is considered 'too violent' for the children to watch. Last year I got told off for watching Ghandi, and he barely kills anyone!

Lol - sounds like a load of over-zealous mollycoddling to me, so the least said about that, the better!

We also have most of our meals whilst watching TV, but Christmas lunch is a special occasion, and always consists of a huge spread, with lots of drinkies before, during and after the meal, with also hours of preparation beforehand, so TV doesn't get a look in until around 6pm, and by that time we're usually all too pissed (or asleep) to care!

Marco.

[Joe]

We watch almost no TV, and Christmas will be no different in that respect. When I was a nipper, Christmas Day was spoiled by the relatives rolling up halfway through Christmas Top of the Pops. No video recorders back then, and no chance of us being allowed to watch the rest of the programme whilst the old folks had a natter elsewhere.

Anyway, here's Mark E Smith to sum up Christmas:

'Post-festivities
I'm feeling numb now
From remedies and Prozac
I'm kinda two-tone

I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb
I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb
Prozac!

Everything is broken
because of grist that curtails
Get the Western on
Stick with family
At the lodge
At the lodge
At the lodge

(I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb'

[mad-moon]

Hahahahaha...well this thread didn't turn out like you expected Marco....I used to do Christmas every year, with all the decorations that went with it...these days...a small tree and a couple of dozen christmas cards from friends and family...It's all about to change though....we have a grandson 5....my daughter is due her first little one any day now....and the partners middle son and his girlfriend are going to be blessed with a little one very soon too...looks like it's all going to start over again...I'll have to get into the loft somehow....

[Marco]

When I was a nipper, Christmas Day was spoiled by the relatives rolling up halfway through Christmas Top of the Pops. No video recorders back then, and no chance of us being allowed to watch the rest of the programme whilst the old folks had a natter elsewhere.

That also happened to me, but after I'd said 'hello' to whoever was visiting and hugged them, 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 really 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....

Returning to the Christmas meal thing and TV, the other angle, chez-moi, is that music is also playing in the background, usually some nice choral stuff, carols (from Kings) or something absorbing but soothing, to set the mood, such as Schubert's Fantasy:



Marco.

[Tim]

I've undeleted that post . . .

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?