Christmas Traditions

[William_Montgomery]

Got any old (or new) Christmas traditions that come out for the festive period?

She's been making some nice Christmas garlands over the fireplace these last few years. Nice to come home to after a cold day's work.


Got ol' Joanna sitting in the corner too, like to give 'er a tickle and see if she gives up a Christmas tune.

 

[TeeDee]

Every Xmas day I go out early and put bird food out in a variety of locations.

 

[Chris]

My wife and I go shopping for stocking fillers every year in the same shop at the same time, and our objective is to get around the shop without being seen by the other. When we were in the US for the first year we did this, it resulted in me going down into a low squat to hide behind some shelving whilst talking to a rather bemused looking shop assistant, as I'd spotted my wife (fiancee at that point) coming out from another aisle.

 

[John Fenna]

I always get my wife a vintage "Rupert" annual .... at 76 she is now definitely in her second childhood!....
And a beret...
And a frog of some sort (fabric, ceramic, plaster etc)...
And a dark chocolate Terry's Choc orange...
All are getting harder to find!

 

[Jared]

Have a little (6" tall) jellycat santa bought in Selfrigdes 20 years ago.

Each year attach it to my the back of daysack, it's quite amusing when walking around town, and hear parents pointing it out to their kids, or store staff doing the same.

 

[Pattree]

Christmas is a big deal for us.
We always go to Keswick for the first week of December.
It’s partly to celebrate our wedding anniversary but it also kicks off Christmas and lets us shop for something other than the chain store stock.
We stay in an apartment on the banks of the Greta.

We do our Christmas shopping.
Go to the Theatre on the lake. Jungle Book. Only saw the first act. A monkey fell through a faulty stage trap door. Not hurt I’m told but the stage was assessed as unsafe. They do a great show there.
Go to the cinema - dunno what all the fuss is about “Wicked”. There isn’t nearly enough Story for the time it takes. Very clumsy theme about discrimination.
Anyway. Belly pork and Christmas pud in the Bank Tavern puts everything right.
Edited to add:
And a couple of pints of Wainwrights.

The 25th is a family feast, anywhere between 14 and 20 of us depending on who is going to in-laws that year.

Panto during twixtmas. Oh yes I do!!!

 

[Glow_worm]

And a dark chocolate Terry's Choc orange...
All are getting harder to find!

Surely not... They appear in the shops in October!

 

[John Fenna]

Surely not... They appear in the shops in October!

All the other varieties do - but not the Dark Choc version

 

[Pattree]

Surely not... They appear in the shops in October!

They’d all gone when I went to harvest some. All I found were one mint one and one dark one in a battered box on the wrong shelf.

 

[StevieE]

Yip. Terry's Chocolate Orange tradition for over 30 years for all the adults though no-one ever eats them

 

[Pattree]

Yip. Terry's Chocolate Orange tradition for over 30 years for all the adults though no-one ever eats them

Que?

 

[William_Montgomery]

Due to it being the missus' birthday on Christmas day, we've always got a birthday cake on the go.
This was a good one from a couple of years back, and ties in nicely with the bushcraft theme (she loves a good camp fire).

 

[Tengu]

I love chocolate orange.

Milk.

Mostly this time of year I keep my head down.

And make home made mincemeat...

 

[Pattree]

Untangling strings of lights!!!
A genuine test of patience that in the years before my beard, I failed annually. The solution is the same as for guylines - you have to KNOW that they are not tangled, merely looped and keep the faith!

 

[Toddy]

My homemade mincemeat is so potent this year that it's almost needing labelled as not suitable for anyone driving

I wasn't quite paying attention, until I realised that we needed another bottle of brandy.....fortunately we had cointreau

 

[Tengu]

Yes, that would work.

 

[demented dale]

Got any old (or new) Christmas traditions that come out for the festive period?

She's been making some nice Christmas garlands over the fireplace these last few years. Nice to come home to after a cold day's work.


Got ol' Joanna sitting in the corner too, like to give 'er a tickle and see if she gives up a Christmas tune.

Years ago I always used to go hunting every xmas day with my Harris Hawk. Just made me quite sad in a nostalgic, passing of time way..

 

[Toddy]

I used to work events with a fellow who brought along his raptors. He flew the Harris hawk (always a female, he said they were the brains of the 'family' groups) in his demonstrations. Always impressive

 

[forrestdweller]

i'm a grinch, so no special traditions for me...

 

[Herman30]

i'm a grinch, so no special traditions for me...

Likewise. Only tradition is a few varietys of cold fish dishes washed down with vodka or aquavit. This year it is ukrainian milk purified vodka.