Cube mk2 and WIR

[Richard]

I just thought I'd mention my dislike of the run up to Xmas. I have altered my avatar accordingly (having noticed - who could fail to - the rest of the Xmas pictures).

 

I love Xmas. I adore having a couple of days off work, I really enjoy giving pressies - I have the job of giving them out, around the tree - and there will, in our house on xmas morning, be present a 29yr old, a 30 yr old, two 53 yr olds and a 78 yr old! So all children but none under 29!

 

But I hate the run up. I loath having to go out to work Xmas do's. I hate the energy wasting Xmas lights that seem to grow on houses like mile a minute Russion Vine. I detest the waving santas and sleighs and all the rest.

 

And I detest the Xmas music. Slade, Bing Crosby and the rest of that rubbish. I really like the Pogues - but New York Xmas one more time and I think I'll scream and smash some windows.

 

Please, if we have to have Xmas music, lets have nice traditional carols.

 

And sending cards to people you see everyday at work - how daft is that? and sometimes to people you don't even like 'cos you wouldn't want to be the one who doesn't send a card!

 

And I don't want Xmas mentioned before Xmas eve in my house. And I don't do cards.

 

And no flashing lights and waving santas.

 

Then we can really enjoy the three days, plenty of mulled wine and xmas pud and pressies and all the rest of it. And a boxing day golf competition when most people will be legless by the turn, and everyone gets a prize whatever score.

 

And my girls think the same; Xmas decorations in the cube will go up on Xmas eve and pressies on Xmas morning - but no forced festivities before then on pain of ... well something not very nice.

 

so there.

 

Humbug.

[Egluntyne]

I'm inclined to agree Richard.

 

How do local authorities justify having 60,000 bulbs on the go from Mid November and then bang on about carbon footprints and the like.

 

I'm personally ready to throttle George Michael.

 

I bought the Choirboys Carols CD the other day. Beautiful.

[Guest]

I like the run up and the festive decorations but the day itself can go hang. I'll humbug then.

 

Oh and until then I will play lots of Christmas music.

 

Aaah yes, not keen on parites with all the work people I don't like either - so I'm not going and I've chosen THE SAME NIGHT to have my Christmas party with all my friends who I used to work with. I also asked all the misery guts that I work with now so I look really up for it (but I knew they would choose to go on the full staff one instead!)

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I agree. Bah humbug to:

 

• Christmas puddings and selection boxes in supermarkets in September
  Houses festooned with lights and santas etc (don't mind tastefully done ones which I'm sure all Omleteers ones are!)
  Starbucks staff wearing santa hats in November
  Christmas music everywhere you turn
  Colleagues asking what I'm wearing to the office party (I'm wearing what I wore last year - who's going to notice/care )
  Obscene piles of "stuff" in the shops and resulting crowds
  Secret Santa at work - who thought I'd appreciate a belly dancing kit (and don't say OH )

I pared my Christmas card list right down last year. If I have written "must catch up with you next year" and haven't, we obviously didn't really want to meet up again.

 

We have a communal "Christmas card" board at work. Write a greeting and make a donation which goes to charity.

[Guest]

Richard, do you have any objections to mistletoe?

 

[feemcg]

I agree - I haven't been at the shops for weeks so dreading all the crowds and rubbish on the shelves and songs playing. OH has spent today loading all the Christmas party music onto his lap-top for the start of his Christmas 'run' tomorrow night..aaarrgh, so cheesy (and I've just washed his santa suit )

[Guest]

OH has spent today loading all the Christmas party music onto his lap-top for the start of his Christmas 'run' tomorrow night..aaarrgh, so cheesy (and I've just washed his santa suit )

 

you sound like Mrs Claus

[Richard]

Richard, do you have any objections to mistletoe?

 

 

Well, it depends ........

[Richard]

OH has spent today loading all the Christmas party music onto his lap-top for the start of his Christmas 'run' tomorrow night..aaarrgh, so cheesy (and I've just washed his santa suit )

 

you sound like Mrs Claus

 

would that be Mary?

 

 

 

... as in Mary Christmas.

 

Oh I am sorry - it just sort of, well, slipped out. I really do like awful cracker jokes. We make our own crackers and buy little pressies to go in them. And I do the jokes!

[Richard]

IOH has spent today loading all the Christmas party music onto his lap-top for the start of his Christmas 'run' tomorrow night..aaarrgh, so cheesy (and I've just washed his santa suit )

 

this wouldn't be a Round Table Xmas run would it?

 

If so, I sympathise - it was part of my life for many many years!

[Guest]

I used to love it when The Round Table Christmas float used to come round when I was a child. We'd follow it until it left our crescent.

 

When I was little it was a hugh thing, a lorry and open trailer on the back with Father Christmas, elves, angels, the whole kit and kaboodle.

 

These days it's a milk float with just Father Christmas and they don't even bother to go down all the closes, they just stick to the main roads now.

 

Very sad

[feemcg]

No, not Round Table - he's a DJ and works with a cabaret singer for party nights. He puts on his suit at half-time and goes round giving out choc oranges etc.. He used to do about 12 nights but a lot of the hotels are cutting back, think he's only doing 5 this year.

[Jules.]

I'd forgotten about the round table float. Our local one always comes down our road on a Monday, it is a float pulled by a tractor.

It usually comes when the boys are having a bath.... they end up looking at it through the window wrapped up in towels.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I followed the Round Table sleigh home from the supermarket a week ago (it was going the same way as me, I wasn't stalking it ). It kind of spoiled the image that it was on a tatty old trailer pulled by a filthy landrover and I could see all the wiring and plugs (which looked a bit dodgy ) hanging off the back.

[CatsCube]

The thing I hate most is the 1st of Dec and people stick their trees up. For anyone using a real tree its dead by christmas day, and it looses all its excitment and appeal by christmas day anyway!

 

And all the stuff in the shops in Sept, the advert or all the kids toys on constant so kids can wine to their parents wanting them all.

[Guest]

...I could see all the wiring and plugs (which looked a bit dodgy ) hanging off the back.

 

I think we don't see the wires when we're little

[Richard]

I spent over 15 years in Round Table and did the Xmas runs every year. I'm afraid that by the end it became rather a drag! It was lovely for the kids when they believed in Father xmas, but I always felt there was something wrong in them seeing him, being given some sweets or something, and then Mum having to put some money in a tin - somehow I felt that was wrong - the charity collection needed, imo, to be separate from the visit from Father Xmas and the carols.

 

Mind you, we played awful slush Xmas music from the float - Grrrrrr.

[Rona]

I like to put up the decorations on Christmas Eve and take them down on New Year's Day. It's my birthday on the 2nd Jan so I like to have got rid of all signs of Christmas by then.

Spoke to my son in Dubai today and he has already put up his little tree and decorations. This year he will be Santa Claus at the hotel where he works - apparently they say its got nothing to do with the fact that he has the perfect figure for it . Anyway, Christmas Eve he just has to dress up and sit in the ballroom and give out sweets to the children but Christmas Day will be a bit more of a challenge as he has to ride along the beach on a camel . I hope he gets some practice first

[Guest]

imo, to be separate from the visit from Father Xmas and the carols.

 

Mind you, we played awful slush Xmas music from the float - Grrrrrr.

 

my mum and dad didn't mind contributing because us kids enjoyed the spectacle so much. I think my dad hated having to put his coat on while we dragged him out to follow the float as far as we were allowed to!

 

Now I'm the adult (arguably). If I had kids I wouldn't mind either as I think it's a lovely tradition and you're getting something for your money! I still enjoye seeing the float, even though I now see the wires

[Egluntyne]

I've never come across this Round Table float....in any of the places I have lived.

[BeckyBoo]

I'm only going to say this once cos I think I'm on the wrong thread. I LOVE CHRISTMAS! I love all of it, the noise, the fuss, the overindulgence, the parties, the kids, the presents, the forgetting someone's card, the chaos in the kitchen, the house being too full of people, the bags of rubbish at the end and the carpet looking like a wrapping paper explosion. I love twinkly lights, yes we've already got our tree up, no it won't be dead by Christmas as I water it as I would any other cut flower or plant, you can bah humbug all you like, but my kids will be at Midnight Mass for the first time this year (with a bit of luck) and I can't wait.

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS HO HO HO!

 

Mrs Bertie

[Guest]

I love Christmas too - and I think Richard does as well. His point is that it doesn't start until December 25th.

 

I agree with everything he has said, but on the whole none of it bothers me. I don't go to the shops very much at all and will probably just go once before Christmas, maybe next week. My place of work doesn't celebrate Christmas much before the event and we don't have a works do either. So I am not exposed to any of the wrong sort of pressure.

 

Christmas is officially December 25th to January 5th. I think it's very sad that by January 1st, everyone has 'put away' Christmas and moved on. My decorations will stay up until 12th night and we usually have a big celebration at 'work' near January 6th.

[Charlottechicken]

I really hate it when all the decorations are down before January Mine go up as close to Christmas day as is possible for me, usually around 22nd/23rd, and stay up until 12th night

 

I love the December run up though. I am usually sorted by the end of November with gifts etc, so just sit back and watch the rush The only thing that really annoys me is why are the food shops so packed? Who are these people who only eat in the run up to Chtistmas? There they are with 20 cheap loaves of bread, 7 dozen cans of lager, 24 toilet rolls, a CD and some cat food. Don't they need these things all year round

 

Don't panic folks, the shops are only shut for a day

[emu]

Official Arrival date for our girls so i think a few lights will go up and a thanksgiving meal(oh so american) for us all.

Christmas 25 december well who cares it'll be us and the chucks together hopefully all being well

Gettin pre-arrival nerves!!

[Richard]

Official Arrival date for our girls so i think a few lights will go up and a thanksgiving meal(oh so american) for us all.

Christmas 25 december well who cares it'll be us and the chucks together hopefully all being well

Gettin pre-arrival nerves!!

 

So when is the arrival date? Is it actually on 25th?