Anyone not saying W&G is kidding themselves imo….TV wise anyway. It’s the most consistently brilliant thing.
Indulging in hedonistic activitys under the mantra of “fuck it, its Christmas” i.e spending days on the sofa eating cheese in my jammies while watching crap telly and cracking open a bottle of alcohol for breakfast.
Spending time with family, with no real commitments other than relaxing, eating and drinking.
Christmas dinner
Honestly?
The 45mins at about 1130pm on Xmas eve when all house jobs are done, nothing else I can do to sort out for Xmas itself, kids are asleep and no point thinking about anything to do with work for 4 days. The calm before the (next) storm.
Found out that Die Hard, one of my all time favourite films, is on at a nearby cinema on the 23rd December. Never seen it on the big screen – so excited!!
Pigs in blankets
My husband is going to his parents’, so I’m going to make an Xmas ham (he’s not a fan of ham on its own, though he likes it *in* things), binge the Scandi noir stuff he hates, and wallow in sloth.
(I have Xmas-related trauma. I just plain don’t do Xmas. I prefer to spend it alone, and as insulated as possible from happy families and Xmassy stuff. Don’t feel bad for me, I’ve been doing it this way for more than 30 years and it’s what works for me. I used to ritually watch all of the Bond movies in order between Xmas and New Year’s, but eventually I got bored with Bond and started to switch it up.)
Gavin and Stacey Christmas special
Hanging out with my four day old nephew 🙂
The inevitable family drama that I will be told about via text while I’m enjoying my Christmas in a little cottage on the coast all on my own.
The week off.
All day drinking. Excessive food consumption
Food and family. Everything else can get in the bin.
I’m always jealous of the Americans with their Thanksgiving celebrations. Sounds like the best bits of Christmas without the extra crap.
The answer I usually give is spending time with my loved ones. The secret, true answer is Christmas University Challenge, because it’s dumbed down for the celebrities and easier to get points and feel smart.
Everything I love Christmas 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Watching W&G and Doctor who
Still gotta watch the snowman and father Christmas. 🎶 another bloomin Christmas 🎶
Finishing work on the 23rd at lunchtime, coming home, pouring out a massive glass of Bailey’s on a ton of ice and watching 2 or 3 Christmas films. Might have a nap. Go and get a McDonald’s for dinner, wake up on Christmas Eve. Walk around the shops, have a coffee, have some lunch. Come home and have a few beers and watch some more Christmas films with my girlfriend. It sounds fucking boring but right now it’s my idea of heaven.
Doing nothing at all. When I was working on Boxing day, as a criminal lawyer, I used to think of it as ‘domestic violence day’ because the police station cells would be full of people nicked for hitting their partners whilst stupefied on alcohol. Take a relationship on the rocks, add being confined with the other half for 48 hours and throw in several bottles of alcohol, and things kind of spiral. There are few more depressing things than sitting in a police station consultation room on boxing day asking some hungover punter exactly what happened. They usually have no idea what happened.
Watching Wallace and Gromit 😀
Not much
Seeing that feathered prick being sent down!
Seeing my family all in one place. It’s not often the four of us get together due to logistics and scheduling. I’m grateful for them.
Time off work
Sitting under a blanket all day with my 3yo and what-will-be 2 week old newborn watching festive TV while my husband and SIL do all the running around.
Also seeing my daughter’s face when she opens the one thing she’s been asking for since June.
If Chicken Run 2 was anything to go by, I have a horrible feeling the new Wallace & Gromit will be a bit of a letdown. Too long, and too pristine and perfect and plastic looking. The fingerprints on the plasticine was part of the charm.
Nick Park said he much preferred the shorter 30 minute format, so my suspicious side is saying he didn’t really want to do this. But Netflix gave Aardman money to make it, Aardman told Nick Park they’re making it with or without him. I hope I’m wrong.
Finishing work early on 20th and picking up my son from school (reception) Then I’m off until 27th and that’ll be an absolute doss day.
Excited for all the food, seeing family, baking (we’re hosting Christmas day) Can’t wait to put the carrot and pie out for Santa and the reindeer and for the lad to be buzzing on Christmas morning.
Chilling on Boxing day at my mum’s.
Christmas telly, especially Gavin and Stacey and rewatching Father Ted for the upteenth time.
We are having Christmas just the 4 of us this year and I cannot wait to just spend the day in my pj’s, watching films, drinking Buck’s Fizz, eating chocolate and eventually getting round to cooking a Christmas dinner.
All systems go on Boxing Day, however 😅
It being over
FAMILY! My son will be home from uni for three weeks and I have family coming over to visit from America. It is the first time I’m getting to meet my niece and nephew and I couldn’t be more excited.
Wallace and Gromit!
This. The legend that is Feathers McGraw.
Cheese board.
Got my spot on the annual christmas eve pub ride at riding in need of a good gallop/canter with my mates and ponies/horses (I ride the ponies).
It’s been so stressful and manic and crazy so ponies are my current lifesaver/sanity saver.
Can’t wait for the Wallace and grommet
Eating and drinking myself into a stupor.
My mom’s birthday is on the 26th and it will be her 83rd. She’s doing great and I will he there.
January.
Watching Hans Gruber falling from the top of Nakatomi Plaza
Is W&G on Christmas Day?
I’m looking forward to spending 30% of my time with my family – the other 60% I’ll be running around after the bastards that decide Christmas is the perfect time to do some shopping. Whoever thought of Boxing Day Sales deserves to be hanged.
It’s the first Christmas where my little one understands any of it, the look on his face is what I’m most looking forward to. My husband’s been given Christmas Eve off which just makes it even better
Eating my own bodyweight in Tunnocks Caramel Wafers.
Just back from visiting the lights at Battersea Power Station 😍🐧🐶🎄
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Time off work
Anyone not saying W&G is kidding themselves imo….TV wise anyway. It’s the most consistently brilliant thing.
Indulging in hedonistic activitys under the mantra of “fuck it, its Christmas” i.e spending days on the sofa eating cheese in my jammies while watching crap telly and cracking open a bottle of alcohol for breakfast.
Spending time with family, with no real commitments other than relaxing, eating and drinking.
Christmas dinner
Honestly?
The 45mins at about 1130pm on Xmas eve when all house jobs are done, nothing else I can do to sort out for Xmas itself, kids are asleep and no point thinking about anything to do with work for 4 days. The calm before the (next) storm.
Found out that Die Hard, one of my all time favourite films, is on at a nearby cinema on the 23rd December. Never seen it on the big screen – so excited!!
Pigs in blankets
My husband is going to his parents’, so I’m going to make an Xmas ham (he’s not a fan of ham on its own, though he likes it *in* things), binge the Scandi noir stuff he hates, and wallow in sloth.
(I have Xmas-related trauma. I just plain don’t do Xmas. I prefer to spend it alone, and as insulated as possible from happy families and Xmassy stuff. Don’t feel bad for me, I’ve been doing it this way for more than 30 years and it’s what works for me. I used to ritually watch all of the Bond movies in order between Xmas and New Year’s, but eventually I got bored with Bond and started to switch it up.)
Gavin and Stacey Christmas special
Hanging out with my four day old nephew 🙂
The inevitable family drama that I will be told about via text while I’m enjoying my Christmas in a little cottage on the coast all on my own.
The week off.
All day drinking. Excessive food consumption
Food and family. Everything else can get in the bin.
I’m always jealous of the Americans with their Thanksgiving celebrations. Sounds like the best bits of Christmas without the extra crap.
The answer I usually give is spending time with my loved ones. The secret, true answer is Christmas University Challenge, because it’s dumbed down for the celebrities and easier to get points and feel smart.
Everything I love Christmas 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Watching W&G and Doctor who
Still gotta watch the snowman and father Christmas. 🎶 another bloomin Christmas 🎶
Finishing work on the 23rd at lunchtime, coming home, pouring out a massive glass of Bailey’s on a ton of ice and watching 2 or 3 Christmas films. Might have a nap. Go and get a McDonald’s for dinner, wake up on Christmas Eve. Walk around the shops, have a coffee, have some lunch. Come home and have a few beers and watch some more Christmas films with my girlfriend. It sounds fucking boring but right now it’s my idea of heaven.
Doing nothing at all. When I was working on Boxing day, as a criminal lawyer, I used to think of it as ‘domestic violence day’ because the police station cells would be full of people nicked for hitting their partners whilst stupefied on alcohol. Take a relationship on the rocks, add being confined with the other half for 48 hours and throw in several bottles of alcohol, and things kind of spiral. There are few more depressing things than sitting in a police station consultation room on boxing day asking some hungover punter exactly what happened. They usually have no idea what happened.
Watching Wallace and Gromit 😀
Not much
Seeing that feathered prick being sent down!
Seeing my family all in one place. It’s not often the four of us get together due to logistics and scheduling. I’m grateful for them.
Time off work
Sitting under a blanket all day with my 3yo and what-will-be 2 week old newborn watching festive TV while my husband and SIL do all the running around.
Also seeing my daughter’s face when she opens the one thing she’s been asking for since June.
If Chicken Run 2 was anything to go by, I have a horrible feeling the new Wallace & Gromit will be a bit of a letdown. Too long, and too pristine and perfect and plastic looking. The fingerprints on the plasticine was part of the charm.
Nick Park said he much preferred the shorter 30 minute format, so my suspicious side is saying he didn’t really want to do this. But Netflix gave Aardman money to make it, Aardman told Nick Park they’re making it with or without him. I hope I’m wrong.
Finishing work early on 20th and picking up my son from school (reception) Then I’m off until 27th and that’ll be an absolute doss day.
Excited for all the food, seeing family, baking (we’re hosting Christmas day) Can’t wait to put the carrot and pie out for Santa and the reindeer and for the lad to be buzzing on Christmas morning.
Chilling on Boxing day at my mum’s.
Christmas telly, especially Gavin and Stacey and rewatching Father Ted for the upteenth time.
We are having Christmas just the 4 of us this year and I cannot wait to just spend the day in my pj’s, watching films, drinking Buck’s Fizz, eating chocolate and eventually getting round to cooking a Christmas dinner.
All systems go on Boxing Day, however 😅
It being over
FAMILY! My son will be home from uni for three weeks and I have family coming over to visit from America. It is the first time I’m getting to meet my niece and nephew and I couldn’t be more excited.
Wallace and Gromit!
This. The legend that is Feathers McGraw.
Cheese board.
Got my spot on the annual christmas eve pub ride at riding in need of a good gallop/canter with my mates and ponies/horses (I ride the ponies).
It’s been so stressful and manic and crazy so ponies are my current lifesaver/sanity saver.
Can’t wait for the Wallace and grommet
Eating and drinking myself into a stupor.
My mom’s birthday is on the 26th and it will be her 83rd. She’s doing great and I will he there.
January.
Watching Hans Gruber falling from the top of Nakatomi Plaza
Is W&G on Christmas Day?
I’m looking forward to spending 30% of my time with my family – the other 60% I’ll be running around after the bastards that decide Christmas is the perfect time to do some shopping. Whoever thought of Boxing Day Sales deserves to be hanged.
It’s the first Christmas where my little one understands any of it, the look on his face is what I’m most looking forward to. My husband’s been given Christmas Eve off which just makes it even better
Eating my own bodyweight in Tunnocks Caramel Wafers.
Just back from visiting the lights at Battersea Power Station 😍🐧🐶🎄
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