season of ill will

[legendis.god]

Well when you think of the money wasted food wasted drink consumed and rubbish created and family disputes and drunken revellers in the street.


Does it make your heart glow ?
Oh and i forgot the meeting family you manage to avoid all year , well youre so busy arent ya ?



Ho ho ho enjoy .



Bahhh humbug innit?

[mccfluff]

don't celebrate mate so i'm stress free!

[Bbbananas]

I wouldn''t say it makes my heart glow as such; not with all the expense incurred. But I'm blessed with a great family so I do actually enjoy christmas and the effort.
I know not everyone is so lucky.

[Lakitu]

I don't avoid my family all year, I love spending time with my family. Long ago my parents went overboard with the amount of food and drink bought, but not so much these days.

There's drunken disputes every Saturday night, not just Christmas and New Year LOL.

[sqad617]

The obligatory dinner parties with repetitive and idle small talk will have been avoided, probably because we wont been invited.
The working class will be talking about "the bl00dy good *******" and awaiting the arrival of their credit card statements, half of the middle classes still eulogising over "a wonderful family get-together," the other half wondering what to do with the unwanted and totally inappropriate presents whilst the upper class and privileged will be returning from their break in the sun.
And so will end ends the religious festival of 2008-----Am already looking forward to Xmas 2009 with trembling excitation.

[ChuckFickens]

no don't think it is at all.

it's not celebrated so much in my family now we are all grown up, but for kids it's a great time of year. And I also don't avoid my family all year so it's not a great hardship to see them at Christmas.

I'm looking forward to this Christmas and hoping it will be one of the best ones for ages and give me a chance to catch up and see some friends more than anything :)

[Bbbananas]

I mis-read that for one second Latiku - I thought you were saying that one year they literally went 'overboard' with all the food & drink.

(Not such a daft assumption - I have been known to go overboard with a drink in hand....)

[Lakitu]

Haha, I can see how that can be read that way, at least you knew what I meant though :o)

[dot.hawkes]

Nowt wrong with having a good Christmas however you choose to do it, but it's only one day to me, I'm working Boxing Day and all the weekend after.

I am off Christmas Eve and I will be dashing round Asda early on for the fruit and veg.

[sleepyj]

i do like christmas .it dont matter how much i say i will cut back on spending still spend to much .its only once a year so make the most of it .some of my family i dont give a dam about so dont have to spend time with them only the people i like .its not the same now my kids are older but its still a nice time of the year .what will u be doing for xmas legend ? turkey on the beach is it

[legendis.god]

Xmas dinner in a nice bar then a stroll down by the beach and sip some cool drinks and watch the world go by


well after ive been to work for 4 or 5 hours of course

lol

[JonnyBoy12]

Yes, I am told we waste over �8 billion worth of food in this country each year, it does make me very sad. Here is how to avoid it.

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/

Merry Christmas to you all if I do not see you again until the big day.

[legendis.god]

sadly i expect domestic violence figures to rise and the usual amount of goings on that we either dont see or dont want to think about .

but i hope evryone has a good one , chances are a few on here as in society in general may not.

[legendis.god]

had a look at that link johnny

very true
you just dont think do you?

[Bbbananas]

"dinner in a nice bar then a stroll down the beach..." Now that sounds like my idea of christmas these days, now the kids have grown up.

I did spend Christmas once in Spain - lovely it was, but the kids didn't come with us (before you think 'what a bad mother' - they were 16 & 18 and chose not to come) - but it was the first christmas I had ever spent without them and I spent half the day on the phone to them...
Which annoyed them because they were in bed until 2p.m. and were then planning a party....