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    There will be the four of us. My wife, my 21 year old lad, my 16 year old lad, and me.

    My wife will go to a great deal of creative trouble to prepare a traditional Christmas lunch centred on turkey. I peel things for this to make sure I'm seen to be doing something and cannot be nagged at. I also wash up, which means I feed the dishwasher.

    We will eat from about 3.00pm. There will be plenty of drinks beforehand, and wines during. I will go very easy as drink doesn't agree with me.

    Food will be very plentiful, and I will eat wagonloads of meat as I love it.

    I don't like Christmas pudding, brandy butter. That stuff is sick. I'll have some fruit salad instead.

    It will be quiet and very family centred. We will swap presents after the lunch. I will want to light up a D4 sometime after this, as my boys rave about the smell, and even my wife agrees it smells preity good. Christmas is when I can get away with it in the house without screams.

    I'm a bit of a killjoy because I actually detest Christmas. I grew up in a family always at war, screaming and throwing food up the wall. I'm still a bit shocked that things pass off normally year on year.

    I detest board games and card games, so will always sit out on the offer to join in. I cannot stand those sorts of games.

    We'll all be farting by about seven o'clock, and I'll no doubt fall asleep like a fat bastard.

    I'm always happy when Christmas is over and normality can come back. It's the treating each other and greeting each other in a curious first-time way that I can't cope with. It's a calorie-packed day on helium in my mind.

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    Get up when I wake up, big fried breakfast, Monte No2 and tea. Off to pick up the main squeeze at 6pm, Christmas dinner on boxing day in the penines with my folks!

    Its all pretty relaxed in my family I'm afraid... not being religious (in fact I'm a card carrying atheist) Christmas seems like a bit of a farce to us all, so there is none of that aweful "Are you enjoying yourself? Are you sure? You don't look like your enjoying yourself? Don't you want to join in and play twister?".... for which the only answer is "Meet my friend... he is a gun!"

    Merry Monkey Day to you all.

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    • #3
      "Meet my friend... he is a gun!"

      I think we'd get on pretty well, Drew!

      My in-laws are in the Pennines near Buxton. I resist de-camping us all for the festivities up there from Kent because it becomes a nightmare of family drop-ins. (My missus is one of six who all all descend. There are babies and toddlers, and uninteresting dogs that arrive from Glossop, Sheffield and Barnsley. It's dreadful).

      Cups of tea on crowded sofas. Silly chat. Ridiculous demos of each other's mobiles and cameras done in a John Shuttleworth way.

      I can't bear it!

      We do this about once every four or five years, but now that Dr Death has put his deck shoes on, I reckon there'll be more of a sense of obligation.

      No sex joking. No swearing. No cigars. Cigars would be a right old perversion in CleanWorld.
      It's quite a trial.

      My wife goes up alone a fortnight in advance for a few days. Even she prefers it that way.

      I'm just a miserable self-centred loner lost to entry-level showbiz glamour, really. But I'm happy.

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      • #4
        I love the whole Christmas thing, purely because it's time off work and plenty of food and drink.
        Don't like visiting all the family though so don't usually do it.
        So, it's the wife and myself and maybe one of our sons (If he's not at his girlfriends) getting stuck into pork and beef with all the usual trimmings.
        A few glasses of something tasty and my first Punch should make it a perfect day.
        Round the in-laws tonight for a few drinks, they live in the same street as us so it's only a short stagger home.

        Have a good one.

        Tony

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        • #5
          Probably get woken up by the kids...plus awake all night with the new baby...used to have champagne on Xmas morning, but not this year...open kids stockings, then brekkie, then walk dog, then open bigger prezzies...then...not much! Mother in law is here...

          Can't be bothered this year at all...I'm basically a neo-platonist (look it up ) ...will be having a veggie ready-meal while the rest have chicken..

          Will have some cocktails of the old-fashioned variety...short dry hits of alcohol seems to suit me best!! Not too much, as I will have to help with the kids/baby/granny....

          Ach...humbug!

          Just pleased that the baby is home (for the second time) and we avoid a family Xmas in hospital in good old Melrose!

          Best to all though...and may your gods go with you in 2009.

          Wildwood

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