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Start of December means 4 weeks of fun, feeding on mince pies till your sick, drinking too much and emptying your wallet. Oh yeah I forgot about peace and goodwill to all I love christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too Adrian. You DID get the dogs a present too?

Ha ha They get more prezzies than anyone I know, and they deserve 'em as well

In an ideal year I would be going away for a week somewhere just before Christmas.
But this year I don't have the funds because of what I have spent on the Challenger and Challenger related trips.

I hate the lead-up to Christmas so getting away from it makes Christmas much better for me.

The city center where I work gets impossible even to walk though. All the shops and streets get full of people doing their xmas shopping. It's a bloody nightmare. The traffic is like a rush hour that lasts 7am to 10pm.

My town is well known for it's shops. Today we even had a large portion of the population of the Faroe Islands (they are half way to Iceland) come by ship to do their shopping here.

I wish I could get away from it all...

But Christmas day will be nice. We always dress smart for Christmas dinner even if it is just the two of us. Although this year we are having my Dad over and he always dreses smart for dinner anyway.

dave-r wrote:But Christmas day will be nice. We always dress smart for Christmas dinner even if it is just the two of us. Although this year we are having my Dad over and he always dreses smart for dinner anyway.

I believe the Europeans are quite prim and proper, which is a great tradition. A Family gathering as Christmas, is a common bond of sorts where these qualities are shown. It is something that should never be lost, respect for your heritage.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and good will to ya'll!!

I used to agree with your veiws on all that Dave, but since we lost Carols parents and my Dad we make tthe most of it. I don't have any kids, well the dogs are my kids, but I love the time we get to spend with the family and each other.

Diana HAS to wear a different dress this year. She was horrified when she realised she had the same dress on two years running.

Yeah I understand its illegal for women to wear the same thing twice in one year. At least judging by the way Carol fries her credit card at the checkout of every high street fashion store anyway!
I am amazed your house looks so clean with your dog, ours looks like a war zone

Hard flooring in all downstairs rooms and the hallway helps a lot. We have a large rug in the living room and that needs washing now and again as it gets very dog smelly. We replace it every 4-5 years too. The two leather sofa's in the living room are washable too.

Not in the photo but we usually have a mat under that small kitchen table so Billy can park himself under there while we are cooking or eating in there during the week.

Hard flooring is a godsend I must admit. Makes them do hilarious Scooby Doo impersonations as a bonus
We used to have kitchen mats for little mates but they keep shredding it.Now we have a floor covered in spit and I can watch Carol do Scooby Doo

Billy is the type of dog that just pads around trying to look cool. He rarely runs in the house or even barks and if someone comes to the door he just walks up to them to say hello.

He prefers to run mad outside in the garden. Or in our bedroom while we are getting ready for bed.

Just been getting some Christmas shopping in.

Did I tell you I spread strawberry jam all over my christmas dinner last year instead of cranberry sauce?

Didn't even realise until I was clearing up after and found the cranberry in the fridge still unopened.

You muppet!

dave-r wrote:You muppet!

Guilty as charged.

Ever had one of your dogs or other pet do any thing disastrous to the christmas day meal? My mates Jack Russell dragged the turkey upstairs to a walk in bedroom cupboard and spent all afternoon screwing it!
They came home from visiting family and found the trail of grease and stuffing (how appropriate) leading to the offender

When I was a kid we were going to have a Chicken dinner one night late in December before Christmas and the local Vicar came around as he did every year at this time.

After the Vicar had gone my mother went to the kitchen and the large chicken was gone. Not a sign of it.

We checked on the dog (a Golden Lab bitch called Sally) but there was no evidence to suggest she had stolen it. There was no trace of it. No grease marks on the dog, no bones or mess on the floor. Nothing.

It was a complete mystery and we used to joke that the vicar had smuggled it out under his hassock.

But later in the New Year we were having a leg of lamb and my Mother was in the kitchen cooking the veg after taking the meat out of the oven. She turned around and the leg of lamb was gone!

Again there was no trace of it. But this time there was also no trace of the dog!
We searched the house and I found her. She was under my bed looking guilty as sin with the leg of lamb in her mouth.

She hadn't damaged it at all though. Not even any teeth marks in it. So we just wiped her drool off it and ate it.

Hell we were a family of 6 and couldn't afford to be fussy.