OK, GOG (grumpy old git) getting into the spirit (well, sort of).
I remember always enjoying Christmas as kid. Always the same 12 of us, our family of four, my aunt and uncle plus two cousins and a pair of grandparents. The adults would take it turns to host. My favourite was staying down at my aunt and uncles as they had a really long garden with a bit of wilderness at the end where I'd like to explore. Always a traditional Christmas Day lunch..always the traditional Christmas Day panic especially when, on the morning, one year they'd forgotten to take the turkey out of the freezer. We'd play games in the afternoon..anyone remember that one with little letter boxes and you were given slips of paper with towns on IIRC and you had to post them in the right box ? Then in the evening playing cards....Pa, Ma, Baby or Pram was one. Oh and I nearly forgot...waking up in the early morning, feeling a slight weight at the bottom of the bed, paper rustling as you moved it around....the Christmas Stocking ! Sugar mouse, chocolate coins, a tangerine, a sixpence....sliding your bare arm all the way down that stocking to see what other goodies were down there.
As an adult my most memorable one was when we went cross-country skiing in Norway and every day seeing this. Magical.
But now...soon be over and we can get back to normal ....yippee ?
GOG
I remember always enjoying Christmas as kid. Always the same 12 of us, our family of four, my aunt and uncle plus two cousins and a pair of grandparents. The adults would take it turns to host. My favourite was staying down at my aunt and uncles as they had a really long garden with a bit of wilderness at the end where I'd like to explore. Always a traditional Christmas Day lunch..always the traditional Christmas Day panic especially when, on the morning, one year they'd forgotten to take the turkey out of the freezer. We'd play games in the afternoon..anyone remember that one with little letter boxes and you were given slips of paper with towns on IIRC and you had to post them in the right box ? Then in the evening playing cards....Pa, Ma, Baby or Pram was one. Oh and I nearly forgot...waking up in the early morning, feeling a slight weight at the bottom of the bed, paper rustling as you moved it around....the Christmas Stocking ! Sugar mouse, chocolate coins, a tangerine, a sixpence....sliding your bare arm all the way down that stocking to see what other goodies were down there.
As an adult my most memorable one was when we went cross-country skiing in Norway and every day seeing this. Magical.
But now...soon be over and we can get back to normal ....yippee ?
GOG
bscene-drinkingcheers:
:lol: 
.. sorry , all these years and I never knew 
