Christmas

[JHFoto]

Soon be Christmas

 

 

[ChrisLumix]

LMAO Ron

 

Apart from the Queens Speech I shall enjoy Christmas - WHAT AM I SAYING?? I never ever watch the Queens Speech, so that's ok

[Denis]

To be truthful, I do not enjoy the hype. Well the actual day is Ok, a good feast with the family around. What gives me the heebies about it all is the never ending run up that seems to start earlier and earlier. I have for a very long long while referred to the period as the winter solstice and cannot get excited about the christian hijacking of a good old Pagan tradition.

 

Having said that we do have an indoor tree, and a few lights up on the Beauty Bush outside. but we get our own cards made up with no reference to...christmas. No Americanised Coca cola inspired 'Santa claus' either. We have always thought the same, and our kids (now in their Thirties) have never felt as if they have missed out, both are perfectly well balanced and dare I say normal

 

So forgive me if I seem a grump, you can call me scrooge if you want, but we still have a good time, albeit without the endless cheesy christmas songs on the radio over and over again. We sit , have a good meal, talk about the past year, drink some more , eat some more and generally enjoy ourselves...without a 'ho ho bloody ho'  to be heard...we love it The tree and the other bits come out this coming weekend and get packed away the first day of the new year.

[Leon]

if it lasted a few weeks like it should it would not bother me as much

 

but the Scrooge in me, my mum was a nurse, Christmas day meant double time so i remember most of my xmas's having to be quiet as my mum was in bed having worked Xmas eve, then she would work new years eve too.... I'll leave it there

 

I try my hardest to make it nice for the kids, but I do find it hard, living in the digital age it just means a big expensive time filling the bottomless pit Xmas fund to fill Santa's sack...

 

 

merry f****ing xmas..

[JHFoto]

Ho Ho Ho..........

[NannyFerret]

I originally posted this in shout, but being as there is a thread here I have posted it here too.

 

 

Christmas trees up, Christmas ornaments around the room, windows decorated and sons dog moved in while they are in Egypt over Christmas,
One daughter and her daughter will be coming for Boxing day, then, when the dog goes back before the new year, my granddaughter and my sister are coming to stay for the New Year. Last few cards to write and everything is done except food shopping. I may then find time to play with my camera. lol.

 

I enjoy buying presents for the family and put a lot of thought into each one, but I hate wrapping them up, so now I cheat and buy bags which I just sellotape at the top.
With having eight grandchildren I start a few weeks in advance,.
I really feel like it's Christmas now, and love having the Christmas lights up for my birthday too.

Edited December 17, 2014 by NannyFerret

[NannyFerret]

Hang on, I'm not 71 until the weekend, Ron. Trying to hang on to the odd days now.  but thanks anyway.

[NannyFerret]

I feel like a few years has been knocked off since having my new knee, but I can't argue with the wrinkles and my birth certificate. lol.

[FUJI]

I had a bit of a Christmas Present today.......a half day of eye tests at the hospital.......after which I was given a pretty complicated prescription for new variofocals that will restore my vision after my retinal surgery in the summer.

Specsavers are doing there best to get the specs in by the 27th of December......finger's crossed.

It is almost four years since I saw properly.....to well advanced cataracts removed.......then a retinal scrape, that kept my left eye, in a state of limbo until today.

The only way, I have been able to take pics, is acquiring my PANASONIC GX7 with its tiltable viewfinder, I really can't imagine returning to looking at an LCD screen to take pics now.

I have been trying old lenses on my SONY A55, it has been almost unatural to use the fixed viewfinder in that, never mind the LCD screen....

So, it is new eyes for me very soon ;-)

FUJI

[NannyFerret]

Glad to hear that you had better news this time. You will be much bter with the new specs, especially of you are going to be focusing manually.
My  problem is getting the glasses to fit right. I usually end up bending them all over the place myself to get them to stay up and feel comfortable.
Had problems with this for many years, even having some bone drilled away in my nose so that I would be able to be more comfortable..

[FUJI]

I spotted this abandoned Christmas Bauble the other day........a sad victim of an office party I guess?

 

FUJI

[Korky]

I think Christmas will be a little subdued this year. Matron hasn’t exactly banned festivities, but she has certainly tightened up security after last season’s debacle.

 

On Christmas Eve 2013, Matron discovered that there was £250 left in the Glee Club kitty and decided that, as a special treat for the inmates, she’d order a brand new telly and DVD player for the recreation room. She ‘phoned Abdul (he owns a stall on the local market) who agreed to provide the goods for £249.99 delivered, but couldn’t include installation.

 

Undaunted, Matron decided to call in a favour and contacted Dirty Barry, the man who runs the Twilight Sex Emporium on Duke Street. As well as having the largest stock of pornographic movies in the north of England, Barry is a bit of a whizz when it comes to setting up tellies. He’d had a very busy day selling things that vibrate, but agreed to call round when he’d shut the shop at 10 o’clock. He said he’d bring his lovely assistant, Charlize, and they’d be done and dusted in quicksticks.

 

On Christmas morning, Matron unveiled her ‘gift’ and decreed that after the regulation turkey dinner, we would all gather round the telly to sing Silent Night and watch the Queen’s Speech. No exceptions. None. Understood?

 

And so, stuffed with turkey and mince pies and jelly and cake and Twiglets and lukewarm Camp Coffee, we were each given a glass of Bulgarian sherry and instructed to take a seat by the new TV. We sang Silent Night (Norman Wakefield farted loudly in the middle of the line which goes ‘sleep in heavenly peace’, but we ignored him as he’s an atheist) and it was then time to fire up the telly. We sat with bated breath as Matron pressed the switch and the screen flickered into life.

 

For the first 30 seconds, all was well. We got a lovely, clear BBC 1 picture just as the announcer began to introduce Her Majesty. But then it happened….

 

The DVD player suddenly kicked in and the Queen’s regal image was replaced by the test DVD which had been left in the player from the previous evening. A homemade porn epic entitled ‘Banging Like Badgers’ took over the entire 48 inch screen just as the film entered its slow motion sequence and the lead actress was doing unmentionable things to none other than Dirty Barry himself.

 

Dolores Spink immediately keeled over (after first spitting out a large gob-full of sherry over the television screen), Matron dashed in to turn off the machine only to press the freeze frame button by mistake, Norman Wakefield started to tremble and break wind uncontrollably and Mrs Chow, the new resident of room 37 stood on her chair and began to shout ‘we’re all going to hell, we’re all going to hell’ until Matron slapped her and knocked her to the floor.

 

Things soon calmed down once the paramedics arrived, but as already mentioned, I think Christmas will be a little subdued this year.

 

Korky

[FUJI]

LOL!

One of your best......Tales from the Nursing Home .....yet Korky.

FUJI

[Korky]

Thanks, Fooj. I assure you every word is true!

 

I'm in one of my 'can't be bothered with photographs' phases at the moment.

Korky