Christmas Day

[brispie]

What's your standard day?

Chez Nottingham:

Get up 7ish
Chuck on some clothes and leg it downstairs to rip open all the presents.
Between 9 and 12 get showered/dressed, play with toys with the kids and help out with Christmas dinner
12 off down the pub with my dad for a swift pint
1 back home to help finish off dinner
2 eat huge dinner whilst Top of the Pops plays in the background
3 - 6 snooze in the armchair/play with kids
6 tea time
7 put kids to bed
8-11 watch crap telly

Chez Cornwall
Get up 8ish, get showered and dressed
9ish smoked salmon and champagne breakfast whilst present opening commences
9-12 open presents
12 down the pub
2 - 5 back from the pub, help with preparing dinner, carry on opening presents
5 Christmas dinner
7 put kids to bed
8-12 play 'family' board game and get very drunk

[jerichoharris]

How many presents do you get that it takes you three hours to open them! Greedy fcuker.

[brispie]

Nah, it's the whole family opening them. Last year I had Christmas with mrsbris's family and they didn't finish opening presents until the afternoon of Boxing Day.

Each person has to take a turn and you don't start another until they've finished. There was 10 of them with 2 more turning up on Boxing Day.

[supawooly]

Hasn't Top of the Pops been cancelled?

[jerichoharris]

11.00 am - get up
11.05 - 11.10 - open presents
11.10 - rest of the day eat, sleep, and watch rubbish telly.

[supawooly]

The plan this year is:

12:00 (ish) - Wake up with massive hangover due to Leo Sayer the previous day.
13:00 (ish) - Drag self out of bed. Breakfast of orange juice, cranberry juice, vimto and water.
13:15 - Open presents. Pretend to be pleased.
14:00 - Hair o' the dog
15:00 - Round to sisters for Christmas dinner.
15:30 - Push dinner round plate whilst looking distinctly green.
16:00 - Play with sister's kids. Try not to throw up on them.
17:00 - Start looking hungry and dropping hints about turkey sandwiches.
18:00 - Dr Who.
19:00 - 22:00 - Crap telly.
22:01 - Sleep.

[brispie]

If Christmas Day Top of the Pops isn't on how am I going to find out about what has happened in music during the last year?

[supawooly]

Ask Denby.

Edit: Fortunately you won't have to.

www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223&day=tuesday

[sideshow]

midday: get up, drink some coffee, walk me mums dog.
one o'clock: cook large breakfast, shout at mum to get up.
one thirty:try and convince mother that taking drugs is not neccesary to open the presents
one thirty-five: lose argument
chaos ensues, then my mate from Cambridge arrivers with the Mexican lapdancers and tfms gouges my eyes out.

some time around midnight: Christmas dinner.

same as most years.

[daleylama]

I'd laugh if I didn't suspect it was true, sideshow.


As it is i've merely chuckled for the last 30 seconds.

[sideshow]

apart from the eyes bit it's true, I expect I'll just get some stern looks.

[latelark]

8.00 get up, get out of bed
8.01 drag a comb across my head
8.03 make my way downstairs etc etc etc

But in reality
7.00 woken up by Lark Junior
7.30 get Mrs Lark out of bed to make tea
8.00 after drinking tea get out of bed and crawl to bathroom, wash and get downstairs
8.05-11.00 open any prezzies (one at a time a la Cornwall /\ /\ /\)
12.00 get in car and drive to Brighton (Hove actually) for Christmas dinner with Mrs Lark's family

[belly77]

Sideshow - Can I come round your mums house for christmas please.

[Catfish]

Is the kitten having its own little bowl of turkey?

[sideshow]

If you can find it, Great Massingham, opposite the pub.

[mrduckington]

I bet that pub has a fine name.

[belly77]

I'll see you there then Sidey.

The Kitten has travelled up to Wales with us. It's not having it's own special dinner but there is a present for her under the tree.

[bromley]

What are you people like? already on holiday.

My christmas day will involve much embarrassment that her indoors has got me far more presents than I've got her. No opening of presents until after lunch in the Bromley household.

[sideshow]

almost the finest name there is.

[belly77]

Just looked your mums village up on google. Thought it was just outside Cambridge, it's fucking miles away. I'm still tempted by those Mexican lap dancers though.

[bromley]

Mexican lap dancers are nothing special.

[belly77]

A pissed up Bromley on Christmas day would'd be pouring his wallet out, espically if somebody told them about his reputation.

[macknife9999]

TO GET DRUNK

[basilrobbiereborn]

in Fleetwood (i.e. this year)

7.00 ish : get up, open presents, have tea and toast
8.00 ish : with any luck, back to bed for a couple more hours kip
10.00 : get up, shower, help with turkey turning etc.
12.00 : rest of family arrives and bedlam ensues
13.30 ish : eat huge dinner
14.30 ish : help Mum do washing up
15.15 : get comfortable with a good book
17.30 : turkey sandwiches
19.00 : family go home, watch TV or play silly board game
23.00 : bed

[gymmers]

0700: Get up, prep breakfast, take turkey out of oven which has been cooking overnight
0800: Feed the masses, wash up and clean up
0900: Pressie time
0950: Bin all the paper and boxes. Hoover. Peel and prep the veg
1100: Last one in the shower
1150: Slam in the lamb
1230: Go to local where MiniGym is serving behind bar. No need to queue
1400: Leave family in pub. Go back and start dinner
1530: Here come the in-laws
1545: In law present opening
1547: back in the kitchen
1600: Serve dinner - throw mine down my neck. Back in kitchen clean up and wash up acting as chef, waitress and bottlewasher
1700: Exchange niceties with inlaws, shout at kids, shout at Husband
1707:Go to bed
2000:Go to pub. Drink lots.

I hate Christmas. I'm more of a galley slave on this day than any other

[latelark]

Ever thought about changing the routine and refusing to cook?

[gymmers]

I did. But I am a penny pinching norfener. I need to feed the family, but I'm not paying thirty five quid a head to go to a pub where they microwave your turkey slices

I'm in a catch 22 situation. Will be interesting to see how they cope after Boxing Day when I'm eating hospital food and there's no-one to do their cooking dinner/ironing t-shirts/cleaning the bog/doing the shopping/finding lost things that no-one has even bothering looking for in the first place/providing a taxi service.... etc etc etc

Grrrrrrrrrrrr

[latelark]

Could be the making of them. Without you in the frame they will have to cope - and you will never have to cook/clean again*





























*yeah right

[Fenton]

what do they do during the week when you're not there?

[sideshow]

lose things by the sound of it.