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Post by Moose on Dec 21, 2016 0:04:02 GMT
It's Christmas dudes. Let's get this forum moving.
What are you all doing for it?
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Post by Kye on Dec 21, 2016 3:03:54 GMT
I have 5 services from Christmas Eve until Christmas Day. Then I have to amuse my family on the 25th. Then I will collapse in a heap.
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Post by Moose on Dec 21, 2016 3:55:01 GMT
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Post by Mari on Dec 21, 2016 7:57:53 GMT
Grandmother's birthday on the 24th, evening service, breakfast and lunch at my parents' on the 25th, we provide the snacks for game time, 26th film and food at the in-laws, we provide the sweets and main. 27th collapse in a heap. 30th discussion of wedding decorations with my sisters, 31st end of the year, thankfully just me and Peter, 2nd hopefully getting the keys to our new home, though that is still not definite due to mortgage people dealing with a backlog. Sigh.
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Post by tangent on Dec 21, 2016 9:16:59 GMT
Today (Wednesday 21st) two Father Christmas appointments, tomorrow afternoon a leaving do for the Nursery leader. Then nothing until the late service on Christmas Eve and the early service on Christmas Day. Then six days in bed until New Years Day.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 21, 2016 15:22:08 GMT
All sorts of people seem to be passing through London so I have a few catch-up meet-ups.
Then I will go via some friends in Gloucestershire to my sister's place in west Wales where my parents and another sister will also be. That could be too much Christmas spirit. I will collapse in a heap when I get home again.
Little Miss JoeP is doing the sensible thing and having a quiet Christmas with a Lord of the Rings marathon.
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Post by Moose on Dec 21, 2016 19:48:28 GMT
That sounds like a great idea, I might emulate her.
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Post by Elis on Dec 21, 2016 20:11:31 GMT
We will be at Frank's sister's and her partner's place on Christmas day. I don't know of any plans for other days yet. Tomorrow, there will be Christmas shopping g at Sainsbury's and the chopping for the obligatory hering salad.
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Post by Mari on Dec 21, 2016 21:04:47 GMT
Yuck, why is that obligatory?
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Post by Elis on Dec 22, 2016 8:16:33 GMT
It's just done every year. I don't think it would be possible not to do it. Too many friends like it as well.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Dec 22, 2016 8:43:15 GMT
24th will be packing and making sure the house in is order. 25th will be flying on a plane then having dinner with the Vietnamese family (probably at like midnight Melbourne time). 26th will be going to the tailor to get measured up for our traditional vietnamese outfits. Somewhere between then and NYE will be a couple days in Mekon Delta, then back to Saigon for NYE and 1st Jan will be the wedding. Then on 2nd collapse in a heap.
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 22, 2016 12:49:21 GMT
I have 5 services from Christmas Eve until Christmas Day. Then I have to amuse my family on the 25th. Then I will collapse in a heap. Do you do like for people with birthdays on 25th? "As it's Sunday anyway, we're going to just have one big service!"
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Post by Kye on Dec 22, 2016 12:54:52 GMT
Christmas trumps the regular Sunday, but I don't usually have 2 services on Christmas Day.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Dec 22, 2016 16:48:42 GMT
Christmas Eve Mass at 1000 for the folk who don't like to come out in the dark or have family commitments; two Crib Services at 1500 and 1630; 2330 Solemn High with as many twiddly bits as we can manage. Christmas Day 1030 Family mass; midday - begin leave until 0900 New Year's Day by command of the bishop.
I may not have the energy to actually collapse ... I may have just to transmute into a heap like state ...
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Post by Miisa on Dec 22, 2016 19:40:20 GMT
My plans of having a long weekend of intoxicated knitting all to myself were foiled as my sister came to visit my mother (she doesn't come often) so I promised to have Christmas eve dinner with them (ad will be driving to the cottage, so no drinking), then my mother had a minor stroke of some kind a week ago so that requires daughterly stuff and visiting as well, and my dad is also in the area, so we are all going to meet up in Helsinki on Monday with family friends. Plus I am giving my ever-dwindling colleagues a break by volunteering to work on Christmas eve (the big day for most people here).
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Post by Kye on Dec 22, 2016 19:58:25 GMT
That sounds very hectic!
Sorry to hear about your mom...
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Post by JoeP on Dec 22, 2016 21:09:28 GMT
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Post by Elis on Dec 23, 2016 7:42:09 GMT
Sorry to hear about your mother, Miisa.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 24, 2016 14:45:43 GMT
What? Everybody has gone elsewhere, leaving me to hang with Cleo and Murray in a blissfully otherwise unoccupied house for two whole days.
Soon, it will all be over and we can come out from hiding and continue our lives.
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Post by tangent on Dec 24, 2016 19:20:39 GMT
Hang in there, Miisa.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 28, 2016 12:54:22 GMT
I have finished Christmas and am now ... collapsed in a heap.
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Post by tangent on Dec 28, 2016 14:01:15 GMT
No more alcohol for me until New Year's Eve, my brain cells need time to recover.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 28, 2016 16:40:44 GMT
Champagne!
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Post by Moose on Jan 6, 2017 22:24:31 GMT
Ouch sorry I missed this somehow - how is your mum now Miisa?
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