Christmas Traditions

[Rich Tea Wellin]

What are yours and your family’s?

[Currywurst and Chips]

Put up a Christmas tree

Exchange presents with family

Eat a large lunch

Anyone else do similar?

[Dunners]

Buy the Radio Times. Flick through it once, then leave it on the coffee table until after Christmas when it's thrown out with all the other rubbish.

[Admin]

Arguing.

[Dunners]

Arguing.

You planning on spending the day on here?

[Long slender neck]

I like to feign delight at the gifts I open while quietly fume that I did not get what I wanted.

[Currywurst and Chips]

My in laws live a couple of hundred miles away and my other half hates her home town. So I’ve got it pretty sweet in that respect

[Admin]

Arguing.

You planning on spending the day on here?

Possibly. Depends on how tragic xmas day is at Chateau FTC.

[Dunners]

Arguing.

You planning on spending the day on here?

Possibly. Depends on how tragic xmas day is at Chateau FTC.

[CEB2ElectricBoogaloo]

Bob Dylan Christmas album while putting up decorations,
Joni Mitchell’s River, which always gets my Christmassy feels going.
We watch Die Hard every Christmas Eve while eating a baked Camembert
A Star Wars or Lord of the Rings film

my wife and I get a big Lego set to do together - last year we did the Orient Express, this year we’ve got a Botanical Gardens set. (I even made a backdrop for the train set, that I’m quite proud of )

A film, drinking from ten am and the Adam & Joe Christmas podcast was my morning usually.
Christmas Day we did have family over and I usually cook, but my wife has had a few bereavements in recent years, so Christmas Day has got quieter and quieter - last year it was me, my wife and her brother, with me off the booze. A bit of a dull one, truth be told. This year we’re breaking tradition and off to Norway on Sunday morning for a week.

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Enjoy Norway! As I get older I get more and more urges to go somewhere else.

Went to the live recording of the Adam & joe Xmas special. Definitely become a tradition for me to listen to as I’m prepping dinner in the morning

[LeighO]

Every other year, we come to Lanzarote for the whole school holiday. We arrived today and I’m left wondering whether I’d rather be here or in Barnsley…

[Adz]

Open one present, head to the beach, go for a run with mates, have some drinks and snacks then head home for the rest of the presents

[Mick McQuaid]

My mum buying me a box of after eights, which i don't actually like. I can no longer remember if she knows I don't like them.

[Stowaway]

We always have a real Christmas tree. My wife is from Australia and she never had a tree as a child. We moved in to our first flat back in December 2013 and bought our first tree, and she went and bought out a box full of decorations. It turns out that she’d been collecting them for years and had been waiting for her first tree to put them on. We decorated the tree together and she cried when it was finished. It’s one of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen.

Her remaining family have travelled over to spend Christmas with us this year. It’ll be a bit crowded and I have to cook for 6 which I’ve never done before, but I’m looking forward to it.

[Orient_Man_And_Boy]

Something new: for the first time ever for Mrs OMAB or I, we are dining out for lunch on 25th.

Just for a change, I’ve elected the Roast Lamb followed by Eton Mess.

But as long as I’m at Brizzie on 26th …..

[Eggski]

Getting pissed and falling asleep watching the bbc ghost story. This year's one looks creepy

[Hoover Attack]

Something new: for the first time ever for Mrs OMAB or I, we are dining out for lunch on 25th.

Just for a change, I’ve elected the Roast Lamb followed by Eton Mess.

But as long as I’m at Brizzie on 26th …..

You don’t know what the word ‘tradition’ means, do you?

[Rich Tea Wellin]

In 2019 we found out the missus was pregnant on about the 20th December. She cooks a gammon every Xmas eve (the one meal she does a year) and whilst she was cooking it I said I was popping out to get some more coffee. When I got back she told me that she had this overwhelming fear that I was using it as an excuse to leave the house and wasn’t going to come back.

So every Xmas Eve now, when she’s cooking, I find a weak excuse to go out on my own for a walk to keep her guessing.

So festive

[Qin]

For donkeys years my mum bought me Clarnico mints at Christmas.
In 2009 she died, and obviously Christmas 2009 I didn't get them.
I cried my eyes out. That was 15 years ago, but I still get a tear or two every Christmas day, as I no doubt will tomorrow.

[Orient_Man_And_Boy]

Something new: for the first time ever for Mrs OMAB or I, we are dining out for lunch on 25th.

Just for a change, I’ve elected the Roast Lamb followed by Eton Mess.

But as long as I’m at Brizzie on 26th …..

You don’t know what the word ‘tradition’ means, do you?

Every new tradition starts with a single event, so ask me again in 20 years :-)

[BIGRON]

Buy the Radio Times. Flick through it once, then leave it on the coffee table until after Christmas when it's thrown out with all the other rubbish.

£5.95 for the Xmas radio times this year , fook that it stayed on the shelve

Hardest Christmas of my life this year as its the first one since I lost my dear old mum

[Currywurst and Chips]

Buy the Radio Times. Flick through it once, then leave it on the coffee table until after Christmas when it's thrown out with all the other rubbish.

£5.95 for the Xmas radio times this year , fook that it stayed on the shelve

Hardest Christmas of my life this year as its the first one since I lost my dear old mum

Sorry to hear that Ron