Might do a Christmas morning kedgeree and invite a few neighbours round - think our local is shut Venison & Turkey for Christmas Day Turkey in the aga the night before or we end up eating at midnight Lots of alcohol and no driving everything Home made / cooked so long as I get round to making some truffles and ice the cake Long dog walk and watch a movie Both in holiday for the week Job jobbed
...yet another creative parenting idea! Thinking outside the box. My son would have ruined it for me though. He would have told me (regarding burning gifts) that I was throwing away my own money. Burning kids, he would have told me that I would only find myself alone. Was always a challenge to stay one step ahead of him.
This year we've got both sons with wives and assorted grandchildren coming to stay with us for Xmas eve and Xmas day/night. Xmas day will undoubtedly be manic but I'm so looking forward to it. SWMBO has been (as she always is) inventive with daft presents for the grandchildren. We tend to buy them daft things they actually play with and we put a chunk of money into trust for them for when they are old enough to appreciate it. T'other sets of grandparents seem to think they have to buy big presents/toys for them but I find they seem to get forgotten about after about five minutes and the boxes are far more interesting. Waste of money IMO. Every year we always give our lads a couple of hundred in cash BUT she manages to secrete it in various ways to make things interesting. For example a couple of years ago she rolled up fivers and tenners and inserted them inside some drinking straws, and put them back into the full box of straws and gave them a box of straws each, so they had to sort/cut through every single one to make sure they'd found all the money. Another year she had them on a treasure hunt round the whole courtyard to find their money. This year, seeing as £5 and £10 notes are now waterproof, she's decided to freeze them into ice cubes and will put them into drinks throughout the day/evening. I'm really looking forward to it but I'm sure I'll be frazzled by the time they all leave on Boxing Day.
If I could have a Christmas likes Char's or Fin's I might quite enjoy it. Unfortunately, when you're single people think you have no life and will not have made any plans of your own, and when you don't drink they assume you enjoy nothing more than spending all your free time driving.
A Christmas morning ride given most of the roads will be empty because people wishing they could do what you are doing but can't because of family, is always a Christmas morning grin factor.
Has @chizel been formally domesticated? I'm not familiar with the procedure for getting someone out of jail in Azerbaijan.
It involves lot's and lot's of lube. I wouldn't recommend it but if you are determined, anything is possible.
meh, i wouldn't get to envious gimps, my anticipated crimbo experience, is more a wish list than anything else. it will no doubt do what it usually does and turn mild just before my holiday and pish down for two weeks. the kids will argue like fuck and the maw in law will do my nut in. .
