How Christmasssy is it at your place?

[Marco]

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....

Lol... I hadn't envisaged it going any particular way, Alan. Discussions are 'organic' things, which evolve into whatever they evolve into

I take your point about children, and btw, congrats to your partner's son, but most of us are capable of being kids at heart, even as adults. A big part of the joy of Christmas for me is recreating some of the wonderful memories I had from my childhood years and the special feelings they evoked, which haven't completely gone just because I've now grown up.

It can still be a very magical and special time, and so we do our utmost to create the right vibe, in order to make it that way. The presence of children isn't automatically required to make Christmas special - so don't be afraid of being a big kid yourself! It can stop you from turning into a grumpy old man

Del, my wife, is even more of a big kid than me (and who in truth has probably never really grown up), so we love everything about Christmas, especially when it snows and really creates that Christmassy vibe, so we're counting down to the big day and really looking forward to it - and hoping for a white one!

Marco.

[Marco]

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!

Lol, that was rather 'arse about face', no? Especially in rooms that may no longer have been regularly used.

As for dodgy wiring, I'm pretty sure that electricians existed during the 60 and 70s...

Marco.

[Macca]

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.

Lol different world! The holes in the windows in my bedroom were covered up with cardboard.

If people came round during Xmas Top Of The Pops we just used to turn the volume up so it was too loud for them to talk.

Was round at my brother's year before last and was going through the channels looking for Xmas TOTP. He says to me that they don't have it anymore, the world has changed. That was just before I came across it. Little Mix were on anorl.

[Tim]

. . . and certainly won't be stopping now!

Marco.

Absolutely, if you enjoy it no reason to

And heating in a bedroom, luxury.

[Marco]

Lol different world! The holes in the windows in my bedroom were covered up with cardboard.

If people came round during Xmas Top Of The Pops we just used to turn the volume up so it was too loud for them to talk.

Was round at my brother's year before last and was going through the channels looking for Xmas TOTP. He says to me that they don't have it anymore, the world has changed. That was just before I came across it. Little Mix were on anorl.

Little Mix? Lol, dat's not PROPA TOTPs. It needs to be fronted by someone such as DLT or Peter Powell, dressed in flared trousers, introducing Slade, or such like, to be PROPA!

Respect for turning the TV up - that should've done the trick!

Marco.

[Marco]

Absolutely, if you enjoy it no reason to

And heating in a bedroom, luxury.

Why?

Always had heating in any bedroom I've slept in, although that doesn't necessarily mean it was used

Marco.

[Macca]

Little Mix? Lol, dat's not PROPA TOTPs. It needs to be fronted by someone such as DLT or Peter Powell, dressed in flared trousers, introducing Slade, or such like, to be PROPA!
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Well yes but we are where we are. At least they still have it in some form or another.

[Pigmy Pony]

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.

But surely you take a break for the Queen's speech?

[Pigmy Pony]

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'

So festive! Did he sing it with antlers on?

[Pigmy Pony]

Well yes but we are where we are. At least they still have it in some form or another.

Never liked DLT "the Hairy Cornflake", and Peter Powell was a complete moron who just hopped from one gaff to another with that stupid smile. He was the one who once introduced 808 State as Bob State, because he can't read.

And yes, heated bedroom - luxury. TV in bedroom - luxury. I didn't get my first radio till I was 13. And as it ran on a pp9 battery, it spent much of its life in total silence