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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Shropshirelass on December 05, 2012, 12:15:20 am
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Well finally for once I'm feeling pretty organised - all my cards are wrote out, I've bought all my presents except for maybe 3-4 larger ones & saved a load of money by doing a load of xmas baking stollen & mince pies & giving those as a load of gifts in baskets :grin: :grin: :grin: (Mind you I was up from 9am-2am the next morning & cooked a roast as well :shock: ) so was knackered, I've also delivered half my pressies & cards, got my xmas hat out for caroling, the goose is in the freezer & now just have to put the tree up have I missed anything yet? xxx
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I'm not far behind you Shropshirelass.
Just a few more cards to wright ( don't send meany).
Only 2 more gifts to get.
In sted of baking this year, I've been packing the house ready for moving on the 15th :tired: .
Tree never goes up before the 20th.
I think we need a little grinch icon thing :-J ( for the un -festive sods among use, that would be me :innocent: )
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I am currently using the last few days hols i have left this week to get some xmas jobs done, mega clean of the house yesterday, baking & cooking for the freezer today, shopping tomorrow and then friday is collect pork from the butchers day so a pretty busy week.
cards are written and i still have one or two gifts to get really struggling for OH this year.
Trees don't go up until the 15thish but i want to try and put up my utside lights this weekend.
getting into the mood slowly watched miracle on 34th st on sunday and national lampooms xmas vacation last night :)
Ho Ho HO tis the season.....................mandy :pig:
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I've got the pressies, but anything else normally doesn't get done until the week of chistmas. Hate sending cards so try and only do a few
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I love christmas but only had 3 cards to send which I have already done. Sent them from Bethlehem (Wales) so that they have the postmark.
Getting my tree this Friday.
I am going to my sisters for christmas but found out yesterday that OH's sister wants to come here for christmas even though she knows we won't be here. So now I have to cook full christmas dinner for her on christmas eve and then go to my sisters on christmas morning.
Ah well, whats better than 1 christmas? 2 christmases of course ;D
Sally
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You know that ASDA advert with the mum scampering around doing nativities, trying to buy everything etc? well that's me. I've not finished shopping as I have my own, my mums and my mum in laws to do!
Currently working my holey socks off making soap gift baskets as the shop remains open till 17th. Tonight is Young Voices concert at LG arena, Brum with my 2 middle kids, scarlett's nativity next week, middle 2 then have a xmas assembly and we have church/school events too.
Turkey? oh yes,better order one of them.
Xmas tree - oops forgot that too so far!
oh its chaos, thank the lord for wine.
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I'm festering rather than festive so far this year :( (I'm sure I'll catch up soon !)
Not organised at all, other than having the tree up and that's only cos I couldn't take any more pleading from the kids ::)
I've got a big fair on Friday, so once that's past I'll be able to think about all things christmassy (oh, and Kaitlin's birthday - bad planning that one ;))
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Oh dear, I'm afraid I'm an old grinch...
Kids have flown, one in Austria and the other to in-laws. We are going to Xmas lunch at my brother's, so we are going to manage to have a non-spenny Xmas this year thank goodness.
However, next year it'll be my turn for the lunch so I have promised I'll get back into the spirit by then!
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fifixx (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=3797), I am a bit down this year, I usually visit family in England, this year things are very different, 2 of my 3 daughters are now living in Australia and the 3rd has no time to visit.. :( until after the festive period, jan, when we are suppose to get bad weather, by then we will be having some work done on the house, all the decorations will be down and we should be full!!!! No matter, I am not one bit upset .....(lies)
I live in Scotland and run a busy B&B, this year we have so many requests for accommodation over the Christmas period but we are refusing point blank, we are booked up till 21st so not too bothered, we can have a day buy the fire in our PJ's watching TV with the dogs, not forgetting a Christmas day dog walk!! AND this year I am giving the dogs lots of treats and having them with me all day by the fire!!
I have just about finished decorating the house, the Main tree is yet to be put up but I will be doing that soon.....so we are all glitz up for the guests and at least my husbands side of the family are coming on Boxing day.....that has given me a little boost!!!!
So, not much prep, I only send a card to my daughters and no one else!!! I will buy food in so not really anything different to do...arh presents, well as they are all away, this year its vouchers!!!!
I think we need a Scrooge smiley!
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its the end of 100 geese and 40 turkeys all will be gone on Monday 6 am the tree next week .i do no sh oping or gifts till Christmas eve .I find it hard with all the work and then a carnival at 6 pm with a open service farther Christmas and then fire works .It do sent matter Whit the wether still it will go on torch light procession through avermore real rain Deere pulling the sledge. Last yare pics
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I keep saying I don't do Christmas... Well, I don't for myself. But I always end up sending everybody presents (which will go out this week, as it's supposed to be cheaper until the 7th), and there's a couple of cards to write - and a lot of ecards to send... And tonight I'll make the dough for the Stollen, that can rise overnight, and will be baked tomorrow. And that's that. ;)
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It has all seemed so easy this year - waiting for the catch! Enjoying mulled wine most evenings ;D my excuse being we've still got lots of snow.
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Enjoying mulled wine most evenings ;D my excuse being we've still got lots of snow.
Same here - the snow I mean! Must pick up a bottle of cheap red, could do with internal heating... I'm sitting in the library at the moment which is, although cool, much warmer than the house...
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goosepinple if this cold spell lasts you can keep going till new yare .i had this from wether outlook The cold theme to the weather will continue during the next few days. Wednesday morning will see early rain, sleet and snow clearing away from the south east to leave a bright day for much of the country. However, in eastern coastal counties wintry showers will develop and become heavy, with snow at times. During Thursday and into Friday another another area of rain and sleet will push south across the country, with a risk of snow especially over higher ground in the north, There is a chance of the snow risk dropping to lower levels on the back edge of the disturbance as colder air undercuts it from the north west. There continues to be a good deal of uncertainty about how the weather will develop as we head into next week, but the colder than average spell is expected to continue, and there is a risk of a long fetch easterly flow of the sort we've not seen frequently in recent years.The 60s was the last time and it went on for months . :wave:
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:wave: Yes, January 1963 actually, when I was born. Oh, that sounds like another excuse for mulled wine....
TAS really must set you up with a map and stick on snowflakes and sunshines VF, then you can do video broadcasts to all of us - may be yours will be more accurate!
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day 3 off the snow not a problem yet but the longer it gos on the harder it will get the ground will freeze solid minus 8 to night all stock in.So the cost will go up day by day might be better the week end all the best to you farmers .
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But Christmas is ages yet .........isn't it?
I have given the butcher an order and the alpacas have enough feed to last until nearly the end of January. We collect the dog food on Friday so they will be ok.
I haven't even bought cards yet though let alone presents.
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phew... im not alone.
christmas starts 12 days before, here.
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Im going to write my cards tomorrow, all OH's pressies are either here or on order, I just have to get a couple of vouchers ordered and Im done present wise.
I will start looking for a decent sized turkey in the next week or so, they had some today but they were only a couple of kilos or so, just enough for one meal and soup!
OH has started to feel a bit better after his recent illness and wants to put the decors up at the weekend so Ill be doing the tree, although Im a bit worried about it with Henry on the loose! Mince pies and sausage rolls are always made a few days in advance so that we dont get sick of them, Im also going to do the shortbread and the stollen.
Lovely!!
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Interestingly my 26 yr old lodger also doesn't see the point of buying yet more stuff - he has gone and volunteered to help at the local lunch for people with no where to go on Xmas day. Good for him!
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I don't do christmass , bah humbug !
When the house is up , i will do a mid winter celebration a bit late , in other words , christmass .
It will be my version though , no tree , but plenty of holly and ivy , a real yule log on the fire etc .
So bah humbug to commercialism , an old fashioned christmas i can do , next year though .
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Oh blimey, I've done absolutely nothing and nor will I til school breaks up - pretty late this year but I can't think straight at the moment let alone add anything else into the schedule.
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I did think about doing the cards today. Didn't do them but I did think about it. :roflanim:
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I'm just so far behind that I might be ready by next year :innocent:
We pulled the bathroom out a few months ago and have struggled to put it back together due to long waits for new units. Still waiting :rant: never use B&Q again
Then had to get the chimney swept ( been burning a stove10 yrs ) as a little fire developed :innocent: and found the stove needs replaced. Pulled it out to join the old bathroom to find we now need a HETAS cert to install for insurance. Soooo expensive but bl%%€y cold without the stove :cold: :cold:
Feel like I've spent many hours at the school for numerous meetings and activities recently with more still pending ( some kids just don't fit into a behaviour category that schools can deal with :gloomy: )
Xmas shopping on line for the last week and to the shops to pick up some bargains tomorrow :fc:
I will get there eventually. Very grateful my parents are doing christmas dinner for us :thumbsup:
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rustyme haws things going have you started the house yet .i hope things are going well .i could do with out this 3 weeks of fuss 2 days christmas that would be fine .
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Hello vf , yes ok here thanks , you ?
Got one tree down for some of the frame of the house . Will be making the frame in sections as and when i drop a tree . The frame is just big mortise and tennons , so no real work there . The work starts with the wattle and daubing !
The weather has been the hold up at the moment , it is just to wet to move the timber about .
I hate the commercial thing that christmas has become and as you say the 2 days would do me just fine .
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argh. Most definately not ready!
Some presents ordered, far more waiting to be knit, house not decorated at all and can't be started until we have painted the hallway and got the furniture back in there, which can't happen until we have finished mending the walls and it is all down to the OH as I'm bed bound. Not started the cards yet, although I did think of them today. And for some crazy reason I have invited my mother, her OH, my sister and her 3 kids up for xmas in our tiny 3 up 3 down house!!!!!! Ummm yeah, not ready for it this year at all!
Dans
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Cards written ready to post Monday have not done so many due to cost of stamps but wishing friends good wishes on facebook,. Tree up today and presents wrapped. For once feeling very relaxed about the whole thing. :thumbsup:
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I'm still thinking about writing my cards. Presents are easier. I send my daughters money to get for themselves and the children. My mum didn't want anything so I treated her and her OH to a show by their local am dram group. Just need to get for my OH and one son and his fiancee who are coming to us on Boxing Day.
I don't know if everyone is aware but those on certain benefits can buy up to 36 stamps at last year's prices on presentation of prrof of entitlement to benefit.
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Presents bought or made now, best is the one for the OH.. It's a see through model of a dog where you can take all the bits and bobs out like the kidneys or lungs and put them back in, the only thing missing is a set of tweezers a flafshing red nose and a buzzer when you touch the sides
Making the cards today, well they're not cards more like 2.5" square golden frames with a 2" square green enamel "tile" with a red star in the middle set into them
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That'll do Alistair, I always keep the home made ones - nice to see in the box a year later.
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Alistair, they sound lovely.