Christmas Memories

[pelmetman]

Christmas memories so many. Christmas' spent at my Nanna & Grandpa's stirring the Christmas Puddings, making paper chains and making decorations out of crepe paper. Walking along the prom in the afternoon, some years on my roller skates or proudly taking my new walking doll out in her dollies pram. Dad making us a climbing frame/swing out of scaffold poles. Oranges, nuts, and holly, The Queens Speech, The Salvation Army.

We got married at Christmas and also celebrate my birthday.

It was the last time I saw my Grandpa and my Dad they both died shortly after Christmas.

For me Christmas has and always will be a special time of year.

Sue

[spider8]

A bitter/sweet time for me as both parents are dead and we have no children so only have the memories but Dave and I can snuggle down and do our own thing and friends make this time special so it's not so bad, just a little empty.

[battybird]

I know as I've got older I've got a bit bah humbug about the Festive Season but there is one thing absolutely guaranteed to set me off snivelling into my hanky like a sentimental old fool; and that's small children singing Little Donkey, which transports me right back to when my own children were small. It epitomizes Christmas for me and never fails, which can be a bit embarrassing What does it for you?

Little donkey and small kids do it for me too!

Also the smell of winter spices permeating the house....maybe mainly due to the mulled wine I seem to keep making!

Many happy memories from my childhood christmases when we always used to visit my grandparents who lived in the ground floor of a tall house, with my great grandma and great aunt in the basement and two aunties and families on the first and second floors. All the kids, at least six, used to be tucked up (top and tail!) in an old "put-u-up" in the back room, my nan used to wind up the music box for us to listen to. Despite the noise of the adults and the crowded, bumpy bed, we always used to sleep! These were the days when the entertainment was not tv but my nan playing the piano!
Still have the music box but two generations of the family are now gone

[boboff]

Ah Dad being in the Pub till 3a.m. Christmas morning and Mum behaving like a mentalist shouting and screming at what a selfish git Dad is whilst trying to watch the towering inferno, and that one where the boat sinks (not Titanic!)

Still Santa always came when we were asleep, pillow cases at the base of the Bed, and then opening the presents in parents Bed, with the odd smell of Car Windscreen Wash cleaner in the Room, who knew!

Oh and Christmas Club Delivery from the Milkman which included Corona Lemonade, Cherry & Limeade, boy what a treat that was, that and eating in the DIning room with the fire lit, only time every year.

[Green Aura]

Cigars and satsumas. The smell of these take me straight back - wonderful.

[MKG]

Bloody turkey.

It's always bloody turkey.

I hate bloody turkey.

Christmas isn't bad, though .

Mike

EDIT: Oh, and I've always taken pains to make sure the bloody turkey is really moist - not undercooked, you understand, but still edible. And what do I get because it doesn't resemble cardboard? "Is this a bit undercooked?" One day someone is going to end up with an "undercooked" turkey shoved where the sun don't shine. Now that image makes me feel happy.

[grahamhobbs]

MKG your lucky, the missus is vegetarian and although she's doing some chicken for one of the guests, it's a thai chicken curry (cos that's what they like). A chicken curry for xmas dinner!!!

[cideristhefuture]

My father said my mother could do to a turkey in 3 hours....... what took the egyptians 3000 years!!