31-10-2019, 09:03 AM
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Christmas Holidays
So tell me what you are all doing over the Christmas Holidays.For me not a lot.
Christmas Day just Myself, my Husband and the Cat.
Boxing Day have booked a Table just for the two of us in a posh Indian Restaurant in Lavenham, Suffolk.
That's it folks.
Susie xx
31-10-2019, 09:37 AM
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Three weeks in Portugal, Lisbon mostly, but also Alentejo & Algarve. I like Lisbon at xmastime (I like it anytime), nice seasonal feel, fab lights down the main avenue, tastefully decorated cafes, roast chestnuts in the street.We're staying with Ms d00ds family, we'll have traditional salt cod on xmas eve, and turkey lunch on the 25th. Her boy, my stepson, currently working in Aus is coming over for three weeks. He owns an apartment there and rents it thru airbnb, we're gonna help him decorate it.
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31-10-2019, 09:45 AM
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It.ll be dinner for six, me, my husband, my son, my dad, my dog and my parrot!. Christmas dinner at home.I have always loved Christmas but it's not the same anymore since mum and my sister died. I try to enjoy it but it is tinged with much sadness.
How lovely dood, Christmas in Lisbon.
31-10-2019, 10:04 AM
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The only reason I do Christmas is because I am with the grandchildren so I become the child again as we go out into the night on Christmas eve as we look for Santa and the reindeers . The excitement and the magic comes alive in their eyes. Then Christmas day I usually cook the dinner for daughter and family ( their kitchen , which is a blinking nightmare to work in) but I do it because I want a decent meal otherwise my daughter burns or overcooks the meat till its dry and turns the vegetables into watery mush . Her knifes are always blunt and searching for saucepans and things drive me blinking bonkers and I also need alcohol.to help me get through the hundreds of presants that fill the lounge as I wonder just how many hundreds of £ s have been spent this year . It takes a very long time to watch the girls open presant after presant then discard it for the next one . Usually I get a bottle of baileys which I drink as I smile remembering how my two children were lucky to get maybe 6 small wrapped gifts from father Christmas. But it is Christmas day and I want the girls to be happy and excited so I pour another glass of baileys as I peel the potatoes and season the meat humming Carols .Then on boxing day I say my farewells and run like hell home to the peace and quiet of my little home which doesn't even have a sparkle or a bauble or a flashing light .
I open a nice bottle of wine and think thank God that's over for another year
31-10-2019, 10:06 AM
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I've told family and pals to ignore us this Christmas as my hubby is having a hip replacement next week and im not sure how he will recover (he has other health issues)Have invites but I'm not not sure he will want to be bothered... so will just play it by ear. Won't be going away for New Year this year that's for sure.
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