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As a.child we where not allowed up and into our parents bedroom and then run down stairs before 7-30am to open presents... After the prezzie openings it was a wash and changed into our best clothes and the dreaded christmas jumper some aunty bought... Weather permitting we where allowed to play out on our bikes etc...
Then off to our parents from christmas dinner...
Now that our daughter as grown up and lives with her partener we talk overvthe phone etc and go for a walk with the dogs in the morning...
Big difference is that the missus as lost both parents this year and it will be a bit teary...
So up at 7-30am walk the dogs the prezzie time..
My all time favourite Dale player Mr Lyndon Symmonds
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NFR Christmas Traditions on 13:45 - Dec 19 with 1023 views
When I was a kid Gran used to make us snowballs. Only alcohol we were allowed all year pre-16. It's a dreadful drink but I still love em even now. Also inherited a tradition of proper mushy peas as one of the veg with the turkey which has endured to this day. Thinking on - she had a lot to answer for did Gran. I should be more scarred (although thinking back - I was when she took us blackberry picking ……. even when she was virtually blind!) Sigh.
I was two years old at the end of WW2 , so money was an issue. Going to bed early, being woken by Father Christmas falling into the wardrobe and saying a naughty word. Waking up Christmas morning to find a tangerines and a sixpence. That's where dementia sets in.
NFR Christmas Traditions on 12:54 - Dec 19 by electricblue
As a.child we where not allowed up and into our parents bedroom and then run down stairs before 7-30am to open presents... After the prezzie openings it was a wash and changed into our best clothes and the dreaded christmas jumper some aunty bought... Weather permitting we where allowed to play out on our bikes etc...
Then off to our parents from christmas dinner...
Now that our daughter as grown up and lives with her partener we talk overvthe phone etc and go for a walk with the dogs in the morning...
Big difference is that the missus as lost both parents this year and it will be a bit teary...
So up at 7-30am walk the dogs the prezzie time..
Parents need to realise that kids are awake at 2 o'clock on Christmas morning the gap between 2 o'clock and 7.30 to a kid can be measured in dog years and likened to a starving dog looking through the butchers window.
This is not the time for bickering.
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NFR Christmas Traditions on 16:10 - Dec 19 with 933 views
NFR Christmas Traditions on 13:45 - Dec 19 by DaleiLama
When I was a kid Gran used to make us snowballs. Only alcohol we were allowed all year pre-16. It's a dreadful drink but I still love em even now. Also inherited a tradition of proper mushy peas as one of the veg with the turkey which has endured to this day. Thinking on - she had a lot to answer for did Gran. I should be more scarred (although thinking back - I was when she took us blackberry picking ……. even when she was virtually blind!) Sigh.
Nice post lad Christmas can be bitter sweet... merry Christmas.
As Children My Brother, Sister and I would sit in Mum and Dad's room and open our stockings, which would mainly be novelty items, (use to like those toy figures with the parachute, apart from when the string invariably got tangled) Then go downstairs where we had a gift that was referred to as a Father Christmas present, usually something like a book (One year I noticed, Santa had very similar hand writing to my Mum). Then cooked breakfast with this playing on the record player
That should be a link to the Tijuana Brass Christmas Album
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'Only happy when you've got it often makes you miss the journey'
Bit odd here in Ukraine. 1st of all they celebrate Christmas Day on 7th January instead of 25th December. I have pointed this out that they seem to have cocked up their dates but they don’t seem to understand
Even odder is that it isn’t a special day with presents and big festivities. Instead they do all of this on New Year’s Day which is a big family occasion. Again i have tried to be helpful and tell them they are confusing new year and Christmas, but still falling on deaf ears
Odd bunch these Ukrainians. Bet they don’t even go on the lash on New Year’s Eve
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NFR Christmas Traditions on 18:00 - Dec 19 with 795 views
NFR Christmas Traditions on 17:53 - Dec 19 by Nigeriamark
Bit odd here in Ukraine. 1st of all they celebrate Christmas Day on 7th January instead of 25th December. I have pointed this out that they seem to have cocked up their dates but they don’t seem to understand
Even odder is that it isn’t a special day with presents and big festivities. Instead they do all of this on New Year’s Day which is a big family occasion. Again i have tried to be helpful and tell them they are confusing new year and Christmas, but still falling on deaf ears
Odd bunch these Ukrainians. Bet they don’t even go on the lash on New Year’s Eve
In Japan Xmas is out on the lash with mates and now to do with the family, but NY is a big family get together and quiet (or so I was told)
NFR Christmas Traditions on 16:08 - Dec 19 by kiwidale
Parents need to realise that kids are awake at 2 o'clock on Christmas morning the gap between 2 o'clock and 7.30 to a kid can be measured in dog years and likened to a starving dog looking through the butchers window.
Not in our house...
My all time favourite Dale player Mr Lyndon Symmonds
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NFR Christmas Traditions on 19:21 - Dec 19 with 742 views
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