Mundane News

[randynewmanscat]

I already started last night, foreigners do Christmas the wrong way round. The more excessive of us Britons (cest moi) get Christmas day done and look forward to slightly less formal binging on Boxing day. Over here they get stuck in proper good on the Eve and its all over for them by the time us lot are waking with hangovers on the 27th.
If you like fish Christmas eve is a good evening in France.

 

[Illaveago]

The kitten is enjoying beating up his present .

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Strangely enough when I used to work for one of the biggest computer component companies in the UK in the very early 2000's Christmas day was one of our best sales days, we figured people would have been given money as presents & wanted to get is spent.

My birthday is a couple of weeks before Xmas and people usually give cash on both days, so this morning I've been on Amazon treating myself.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Christmas morning and people are still listing crap on the local Facebook buy and sell!

How likely is that someone wakes up at 8am on Christmas morning and decides that their Christmas wouldn't be complete without a Renault Laguna with a blown headgasket, an Iphone with a cracked screen and ten rolls of hideous brown wall paper?

Actually, it was 5 a.m. in my case.

 

[Gravity Aided]

-14C here at present.

 

[classic33]

-14C here at present.

Snow?

 

[Gravity Aided]

A wee bit, a dusting. Too cold to snow much.

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm cooking Christmas Dinner..
I've made haloumi pigs in blankets if anyone fancies being a veggie but still wants that bacon hit 🥓

🎅🏽

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Been for a walk

 

[tyred]

One wonders what the rest of the world did to upset the Belgians so much that they felt the need to inflict the Brussel Sprout on us in revenge

 

[DCLane]

I've made Christmas dinner for the first time - before it's always been with my parents.

Done, dusted, nothing burnt and all fine. No-one apparently has food poisoning ... yet! I'm done for the day ...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

One wonders what the rest of the world did to upset the Belgians so much that they felt the need to inflict the Brussel Sprout on us in revenge

and Italians to thank for cauliflower

 

[rockyroller]

Daughter made vegan cinnamon buns & I'm due to make French toast w/ cinnamon & confectioners sugar

big or small, Merry Christmas one & all

 

[Reynard]

It's been mostly bright, a little breezy and very cold here chez Casa Reynard. And we even had a light dusting of snow early doors.

Spent the morning puttering about in the kitchen getting everything prepped (we have our main meal in the evenings), then I've pretty well much been chilling.

Had a lovely lunch of cheeses, pate, home-cured salmon and homemade bread, and I've been on the and mince pies. Oh, and I might have accounted for several clementines as well...

Oh, and the girls had some meat trimmings while I was prepping earlier, and they shared a slice of ham at lunchtime.

Hope all the mundaners are having a lovely day

 

[Reynard]

I already started last night, foreigners do Christmas the wrong way round. The more excessive of us Britons (cest moi) get Christmas day done and look forward to slightly less formal binging on Boxing day. Over here they get stuck in proper good on the Eve and its all over for them by the time us lot are waking with hangovers on the 27th.
If you like fish Christmas eve is a good evening in France.
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Oi!!!

Christmas Eve is a "thing" here chez Casa Reynard too. When dad was alive, we had the full-blown Polish "Wigilia" but now it's pared down from *excessive* to *sensible* and then I do a nice slap-up dinner on Christmas Day.