Diamond Dave
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Wishing you and your families a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 🍷🍺😘😀xxx
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BorderReiver
Moderator
Have a great time and I hope Santa brings you everything on your list.
Fast but dim
Adventurer
Jaggededge
Explorer
Merry Christmas Dave.and the rest of you. I'm not a lover of the season so we're off to Spain from Christmas eve till New years day. Probably get bombarded with it there though.
BorderReiver
Moderator
Should have picked a secular country.
Jaggededge
Explorer
Oh I know but Spain celebrate on 5th Jan, I think. The 3 Kings by which time we'll be back home. Mind you, Benidorm is probably just going to be like staying at home. I'll be able to just sit in the in-laws place and lose myself in shite tv.
bushwacker
VIP Member
Barcelona have ciga Tio. if you give a shit
Oldtimer
Explorer
Yep, my younger son, who lives in Spain, is coming to England to escape Christmas.
Beachlover
Moderator
Found this if anyone is interested in Christmas traditions other than ours
www.whychristmas.com
Christmas in Spain on whychristmas?com
Find out how Christmas is celebrated in Spain.
www.whychristmas.com
Saint-Just
Administrator
That’s what he tells you, to save him from telling you he’s coming to see you.
Christmas in France isn’t the same since my parents have gone so we’re making memories of our own here as my daughter will turn 18 this January.
bushwacker
VIP Member
Blimey she will be old enough to have a sip of prosecco.
start some new traditions de Frangaise, dont eat a fish for dinner, burn a wicker man on the beach with farage in it, derail a steam train etc.
Saint-Just
Administrator
She may drink Prosecco but she'll have to do it somewhere else. No bottle of such has passed the threshold of this house and it's not about to start either.
Having said that she is already at the stage where she can tell a Sauvignon from a Chardonnay, and a Gamay from a Merlot or a Shiraz; unfortunately I won't have time to finish that part of her education before Jan 10
Having said that she is already at the stage where she can tell a Sauvignon from a Chardonnay, and a Gamay from a Merlot or a Shiraz; unfortunately I won't have time to finish that part of her education before Jan 10
Jaggededge
Explorer
What about a nice Asti?
Saint-Just
Administrator
We are just starting with Muscat, with wines from Lunel, and Chenin blanc from Vouvray.
A proper education cannot be rushed
91 years old Fred from our street has put a Xmas card through the door but it just said from Fred.
A Google for his wife's name and Wakefield brings up funeral directors fb page, turns out she died in February! Fuck. The pile of Xmas cards for me to hand deliver was on the sideboard, so the one for them has been amended, good job I have not taken them yet.
A Google for his wife's name and Wakefield brings up funeral directors fb page, turns out she died in February! Fuck. The pile of Xmas cards for me to hand deliver was on the sideboard, so the one for them has been amended, good job I have not taken them yet.
Oldtimer
Explorer
Going through my address book at Christmas card time highlights how many names I've had to cross out over the year. We lost our oldest friend last week. He stood in to give the bride away at our wedding, and that was 61 years ago. He was ten years older than me and we regarded him as a sort of elder brother.
We are fortunate to have made a lot of friends younger than us over the years to give the address book full.
We are fortunate to have made a lot of friends younger than us over the years to give the address book full.
MaC
Moderator
I think we reach an age when sympathy isn't quite the right emotion to offer.
I think that offering understanding is perhaps truer.
I am sorry your friend is away. Sorry there's no more conversation, no more memories to be made, no more of the happiness in a friend's company with him.
We all end up just another piece of the stratigraphy of humanity.
I hope the life you have is rich in family and friends a while yet
Mary
I think that offering understanding is perhaps truer.
I am sorry your friend is away. Sorry there's no more conversation, no more memories to be made, no more of the happiness in a friend's company with him.
We all end up just another piece of the stratigraphy of humanity.
I hope the life you have is rich in family and friends a while yet
Mary
ElThomsono
VIP Member
Did I tell you about the time Laura's mother sent a card, her friend's adult sone had died, he must've been 30s or 40s. Anyway Sandra somehow fucks it up and writes the wrong son's name on the card, finds out in conversation and managed to get a visiting friend to find the offending card (all unopened through grief) and bin it.
Quarterstaff
VIP Member
All the best to you all.
Andylaser
Administrator
Happy Christmas everyone. 
Saint-Just
Administrator
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.
BorderReiver
Moderator
Enjoy the day in your own way. 
Beachlover
Moderator
Merry Christmas everyone.