Unique Traditions

[NoMercy]

Every year, on the night the clocks go back, my friend and I have our annual cheese night. We will go to the best shops and buy all sorts of cheeses, patés and breads / biscuits, along with some fine wines, and eat our own body weight in the stuff. It's how we choose to welcome the winter. I guess I don't drink red wine at any other time of the year.

Do you have any unique traditions?

[janbee]

No, but I like yours NoM. xx

[ChillDoubt]

None really, other than NOBODY irons my clothes nor polishes my shoes. It's an ex Forces thing and I'm quite anal about it if I'm honest.

[NoMercy]

You should try it, Jan :) x

Chill, incumbent man captive is RAF and he won't let anyone else wash or iron his clothes.

[tamborine]

I load all my clocks with new batteries & treat myself to jellied eels, simply coz the fresh fish stall is next door ;)

[China Doll]

Christmas presents don't get opened til after dinner.

[andy-hughes]

We don't have TV on on Christmas day until at least nine in the evening, when all presents have been exchanged and we have played a number of riotous parlour games, some of which we have made up over the years.

[gness]

When the children were young I started the...Steal a Present Game...the game and the presents were fun and I had to continue as grandchildren came....

We have no littlies now but they still want the game every Christmas...the only change has been that the accidental duck with a dick is now hidden in a parcel every year......☺

[Slapshot]

With CD on the shirts shoes and trousers, nobody but me touches them, bulling a pair of shoes or boots is very therapeutic!! Nothing for us really but we call cheese night what ever night afte I finish night shifts night!!

[DTCwordfan]

NoM doesn't drink red wine, she only gulps......

take it the right way, NoM.... :-)

[lady-janine]

when together with family we play at least one game of blonde scrabble during the evening. usually after a few drinkies.

[Slapshot]

Blonde scrabble.......

[NoMercy]

China, my folks don't open pressies until the 26th or 27th. I've known them have unwrapped pressies in the NY.

Sounds like an interesting game, Gness.

Don't be cheeky, DT. I don't gulp, I just take a dozen sips in one go!

[NoMercy]

tambour, how could you eat jellied eals?

:(

Sounds a good idea, Andy.

Blonde scrabble sounds like fun.