Whats on your Christmas List?

[Tengu]

The skills to do justice to the Brantub?

a job?

a family who dont sulk/fight over whos not going to get what/go on a diet/tell me to give to a charity I dont approve of/watch queens speech....

(Im sure theres more)

I dont dare ask for anything because they dont want me to give them anything, and so Im not getting anything in return...xmas is for giving you know....

Id also like a birthday at least two months earlier or later in year.


one thing Im thankful for is there are no children in my family (besides me) However children are pleasable (I wont say easy to please) and they are at least grateful for what you do,

 

[jojo]

Mind if I join you?! I'm not a christmas fan!

And me? Please. ....... Can't stand the hype.

 

[bikething]

I`ll make my way over to the grumpy old man corner :sulkoff:

Bah humbug!!

Christmas is for kids and shopkeepers, and I am neither....

Room for a (not so) little one ???

Maybe this should be a poll? - Us grumpies seem to be ahead at the moment

 

[Salix]

Christina aguillera........
Kelly Brook.................
Kylie...........................

not in any particular order of course.......................

but my second choice would be a kayak trip in Sweden

Mark

 

[suburban bushwacker]

'packable' fly rod for me please santa!
If you've got any spondis left a ticket to colorado to go with it would make a nice set.

 

[British Red]

Another "don't celebrate Christmas" here. Not a church goer at the best of times and I see no point of buying things that will be cheaper a week later.

That said my daughter comes for a week and we have a lovely time. No decorations we haven't made by hand. I make sweets, chutneys and pickles. Hampers of my booze and BBs cakes plus various jerkies and sweetmeats are given as gifts. Its nothing to do with "Christmas" and far more about the old celebrations when animals were killed and preserved, feasts were had with the excess stored foods, fires were laid and the nights drew in. Nothing commercial or preachy about it

Red

 

[woodstock]

one of these and thats it.....http://www.tilleyuk.com/hat_category.asp?gender=&catId=1

 

[decorum]

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.



http://washingtonmo.com/christmas/lyric/1062.htm

 

[crazyclimber]

a really really nice roast dinner, a loooong lie-in the following morning, followed by a month off (paid of course) for a trip up to Scotland. Or the Alps. Or Norway.

Unfortunately though my boss is not a very christmasy person

 

[bushyboo]

only good thing about xmas is its only a week till hogmany

 

[Nightwalker]

Im 21 and sick of Xmas already! I enjoy the food & spending time with family, but thats about it. Probably just because of the money side of things. An obligation to spend on others when your hardup for cash; not something im looking forward to atm. uppy_dog

 

[lottie.lou]

I've realised its not Consumermas that I dislike its the nation and their buying obsession. Since I started making peoples presents and cards I've really started to enjoy the time. I'm not a Christian but I think its a nice excuse for the family to get together and stuff our faces.

 

[jasons]

I am going to ask for a bookful of weekend pass.Do need any more kit

 

[Chris G]

Well I've bought "Bushcraft" and Antonio's first book for my b'day and crimbo, and my mother in law has bought me Bear Grills new book as well. So a winter of reading and trying for me

Chris

 

[Jedadiah]

A new inter vertebaral spinal disc, but I shall have to wait until April for that.

Crikey, i bet that's going to be difficult to wrap! All i want for Christmas is my family happy, in good health and close by. But, just to stop everybody who's reading this puking over their keyboards, i think Sharon (Mrs Jedadiah) has bought me a Bahco folding saw. I think she's been doing some lateral thinking and got me an orange one rather than a green one as i mentioned months ago that Timinwales put his green one down at the Moot this year and spent ages looking for it!

I may get some other bit's and bob's but as much as i do like that warm feeling deep down inside that Christmas gives me, i feel that it has become very commercialised and seems to be an opportunity for people to spend money they have not got on presents that people don't want. As much as i'm not religious, i do like the optimism that Christmas seem's to bring and the selfless act's that seem few and far between nowadays.

Infact, scrub that lot, i want tickets to go and see John Fenna starring in pantomime, you can keep your Ray Mears talks!

 

[Matt Weir]

I think I've shot my next few Christmas bolts with my bionic eyes so I made myself a hobo stove

 

[Earlyturtle]

Trying to budget it all right now (bit early I know, but I have a lot to sort out).
Judging by my hands, what I really need is some tough gloves.
What I'd like? A chopping block, and to run into some fallen birch on my travels...

 

[Treeclipper]

My Sami leather pouch for coffee ,
my Steel from Firemaker
& a Hammock for my son ,so he can come with me.

Tree

 

[Mang]

I'll probably ask for Mr Mears' wild food book over the DVD because I though the other guy didn't work well on the TV

 

[dave k]

a family who dont sulk/fight over whos not going to get what/go on a diet/tell me to give to a charity I dont approve of/watch queens speech....

I hear you there the in-laws last Christmas... We had left at this point (long trip home, blah blah) and there were 2 daughters left behind. Mother in law declaires that daughters were really a mistake, and it doesn't matter really as she has 2 grandkids (from first daughter) and it doesn't matter that the other daughter (that really wants kids but is not likely) doesn't have any because they couldn't give them any love or attention. Cue lots of tantrums and crying..

Glad I was driving home at that point!!

Nearly as good as the time I was taking the wife away for a weekend at a spa. MIL comes out with the line `it'll take more than a weekend with you two to get anything like normal`.!!