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Title: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Rupert the bear on November 29, 2016, 06:50:34 pm
Well, what would you like this year ? ( if it could fit down the chimney )  :santariding:
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Fleecewife on November 29, 2016, 11:09:04 pm
Santa Claus  :santa:  is renovating my big rug loom  :yippee: :yippee: :yippee:  It's stood there for ages and is just what I would like, and do like, and will like  ;D   So, sorry, he won't have time to deliver anyone else any pressies  :hohoho:
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Lesley Silvester on November 29, 2016, 11:47:43 pm
I'd like to have my family with me for Christmas.
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: JTFarms on November 30, 2016, 05:36:38 am
For Christmas this year I ask for peace in the United States and the world thats about it.

Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Buttermilk on November 30, 2016, 08:20:46 am
For Christmas this year I ask for peace in the United States and the world thats about it.



More obtainable I would like a wheelbarrow.
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Rosemary on November 30, 2016, 09:37:11 am
I could do with a new wheelbarrow. I would like more LEGO especially from the Expert Creator range. And chocolate. And dry weather.
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Penninehillbilly on November 30, 2016, 11:31:01 am
I'd be happy with a room we can sit in downstairs. Flooded in 2012, we can stilll only use kitchen.
The dining room and 'lounge' OH not got round to decorating and now filled with his 'stuff'.
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Foobar on November 30, 2016, 12:04:48 pm
More time.

Or Less rain.

Either would do :) .
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Steph Hen on November 30, 2016, 12:37:48 pm
To be back at home from hospital with healthy new baby boy  :fc:
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Fleecewife on November 30, 2016, 02:37:54 pm
To be back at home from hospital with healthy new baby boy  :fc:


Ooh - when's your DD?   :fc:  definitely  :knit:
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Steph Hen on November 30, 2016, 05:49:35 pm
14th December, so all being well...  :excited:
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Womble on November 30, 2016, 06:13:42 pm
A new cover for my ironing board.

What's an ironing board?  ???
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Fleecewife on November 30, 2016, 06:44:45 pm
14th December, so all being well...  :excited:


Bet he comes on Christmas Day  :D 8)   Anyway, the very best of luck for a smooth delivery and a healthy baby :love:
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: sabrina on November 30, 2016, 07:29:28 pm
My first Christmas wish would be for a German Shepherd but as we have 3 dogs I have no chance. If everything over Christmas and New Year could go to plan and I see all my family then I will be happy.
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Womble on November 30, 2016, 10:32:20 pm
Wow!  You're still allowed to turn up with hay in your hair and smelling of, er, strawberries though, right?
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Womble on December 01, 2016, 08:44:23 pm
Well, all I can say [member=132794]Scarlet.Dragon[/member]  is that as per our conversations a few months ago, if my accountant had known what a tup, drainage ditch or landrover smelt like, that would have saved me a hell of a lot of un-necessary hassle this year. I think you can be forgiven!  ;) 
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: macgro7 on December 04, 2016, 09:09:49 am
Well, all I can say [member=132794]Scarlet.Dragon[/member]  is that as per our conversations a few months ago, if my accountant had known what a tup, drainage ditch or landrover smelt like, that would have saved me a hell of a lot of un-necessary hassle this year. I think you can be forgiven!  ;)

Hopefully you've got all that sorted out now though? 

I wouldn't have minded but the girl is married to a farmer.... albeit one that uses a Henry to clean his combine (and I don't mean the cab!!!).  I can't imagine anyone who looks less likely to be a farmers wife as she's very delicate, perfectly presented and manicured.  I simply cannot imagine her in a boiler suit and wellies shearing sheep or mucking out!
That's the thing!
Even farmers nowadays are so detached from... farming and nature lol
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Marches Farmer on December 07, 2016, 02:44:56 pm
Well, some of them are.  This is the time of year when I sweep the hall and put the result on the muckheap.
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Womble on December 07, 2016, 03:10:31 pm
Yup. As a friend of ours once remarked, "When I visit my other friends, I take my shoes off to save their carpets. When I come to see you, I keep them on, to keep my socks clean!"  :-[
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Rupert the bear on December 07, 2016, 07:33:20 pm
Yup. As a friend of ours once remarked, "When I visit my other friends, I take my shoes off to save their carpets. When I come to see you, I keep them on, to keep my socks clean!"  :-[

Hmmm  Carpets, is this something new ??
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Rupert the bear on December 07, 2016, 09:45:03 pm
Yup. As a friend of ours once remarked, "When I visit my other friends, I take my shoes off to save their carpets. When I come to see you, I keep them on, to keep my socks clean!"  :-[

Hmmm  Carpets, is this something new ??


Surely you only need carpets if you don't have enough straw down?!
Now I could regale you all with a story about the straw on our kitchen floor many years ago , but I wont. 
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: waterbuffalofarmer on December 08, 2016, 02:11:13 pm
Yup. As a friend of ours once remarked, "When I visit my other friends, I take my shoes off to save their carpets. When I come to see you, I keep them on, to keep my socks clean!"  :-[

Hmmm  Carpets, is this something new ??


Surely you only need carpets if you don't have enough straw down?!
Now I could regale you all with a story about the straw on our kitchen floor many years ago , but I wont.
Now you have me all curious. I won't tell anyone, promise! :innocent:
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Penninehillbilly on December 08, 2016, 06:06:39 pm
And me ????
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: YorkshireLass on December 08, 2016, 07:43:57 pm
A new cover for my ironing board.

What's an ironing board?  ???


It's the tall leaning thing you hang extra washing off :D




As for my Xmas, I would like to get the job I've interviewed for  :fc:
(I messed up the "corporate" bit somewhat, but the "dealing with the actual job" bit seemed to go well)
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Rupert the bear on December 08, 2016, 09:39:16 pm
Yup. As a friend of ours once remarked, "When I visit my other friends, I take my shoes off to save their carpets. When I come to see you, I keep them on, to keep my socks clean!"  :-[

Hmmm  Carpets, is this something new ??


Surely you only need carpets if you don't have enough straw down?!
Now I could regale you all with a story about the straw on our kitchen floor many years ago , but I wont.
Now you have me all curious. I won't tell anyone, promise! :innocent:

To cut a long story very short , when we first married and came up to Scotland to our derelict croft house we had no money Mrs RTB had no job wasnt claiming anything I transferred to Aberdeen branch 6 months before we paid for the property and was allowed to move in to try and sort it , well sort of 6 months living in a land rover !  but the steading was made fit for purpose with anything I could scrounge between shifts.  However before I had got that far the managing director of the company I worked for wanted to come and see the croft , I tried to put him off , the house was devoid of electricity, plumbing , no phone and the one watertight room come "kitchen" ( only called that as it had a rayburn in it ) was also home to my newly purchased goat hence the straw on the floor ! 
Well that's the very short version.
Ps Kitchen fitted 8 years later.
PPs  Everyone round here knew about it , my claim to fame , well one of them.
PPPs I could tell you abou.........  maybe a new thread , one day.
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Steph Hen on December 20, 2016, 07:01:39 pm
To be back at home from hospital with healthy new baby boy  :fc:

Back from hospital with new baby for the 3rd time in his 11days! After a tounge tie snip, then an illness which led to several days stay with tons of blood tests, drips and a even a lumber puncture, he's on the mend.
Hopefully this is us home for good.  Thanks to the NHS!
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: john and helen on December 23, 2016, 09:49:19 am
DRY weather, and could you get rid of the bird flu….i'm sorted with everything else…

merry christmas to you all xx
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Dans on December 23, 2016, 06:08:53 pm
Warm and dry waterproofs and wellies, the bird flu to have passed us by, a leak proof shed and a new kitchen sink.

However we pooled our resources and OH ano I bought some apple pressing equipment so there'll be nowt on Xmas day!

Dans
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: mojocafa on December 23, 2016, 10:18:21 pm
Steph hen     :wave:

:love:                          :thumbsup:
                  :excited:                              :relief:


:celebrate:                         :yippee:

               :merryxmas:
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 25, 2016, 07:27:45 pm
That is so unfair of them. They know you have animals and should have checked first.
Title: Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
Post by: mojocafa on December 26, 2016, 08:08:02 am
I had horrendous b#$}^?]$ of neighbours, so I can fully appreciate You wanting a hit man! They have now moved, but it's left me so mistrusting that for next Christmas I want to be in a new house with no neighbours