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With Christmas less than a month away.....

Guess which way I voted  ;D ;D ;D

Derekthefox :D

ooo, let me think now Derek....... ::)

Just remembered, have addresses for some A4A peeps!  ;D

Well I am not the only one anyway Emma !!!

Derekthefox :D

1st week in December then Derek  ;D :o

Seasonal bah humbug greetings to you Mr January Man  :-*

I'm not - but not for "bah humbug" reasons. Instead this year everyone will get a letter/email and card money is going to charity (I may even buy a fruit tree or something for someone in Africa). If I get my act together in time (not likely) I might send homemade christmas cards instead. (I took some pictures of holly in the snow early this year.)

Usually 2nd week Dec  other than my great nephews in Australia. What are their children to me? Is it right to call them great great nephews? .(Well we can't all be clever ;D) Have sympathy for and oldie (uneducated?) and keep answers polite. ;D ;D

Think a while back in Kitchen Garden mag, there was an article about making your own paper out of veg peelings...

I really hate to admit this (therefore I haven't posted in the pole) but the Governor sends our Christmas cards out each year.

Does this make me a Male Chauvanist Whatsit????

I can just hear you ladies lining up to take a pop at me over this admission...

Fire away  :-[....I can take it!  :-\

Derek

i am sure you are great at hoovering and ironing, derek.
it all balances out :)

will send cards sometime in the next two weeks - but i only send selectively. i also buy at the card aid shop so more money will go the charitable way. only close family and friends get cards - which keeps the list to below 20 ;)

Svea

Me....Ironing....the Governor wouldn't trust me to do the ironing...heaven forbid!

I only managed to do the washing a few times when she was in hospital having the girls...

I somehow managed to get a yellow duster in with the wash....she wasn't happy with the delicate shade of lemon her undies went... I personally thought they were quite sexy ...but who am I to comment???

Hoovering...did that once too.. didn't stop there..started to polish furniture wash down paintwork on skirtings, doors etc.... the Governor asked me if I was trying to tell her that she wasn't doing it well enough....I was banned from that moment on.

The guys on here may think I have cracked it and am having an easy time...Well I suppose I am... but I really do want to help around the house... I am just not allowed.. :'(

Derek

Being a Johnny-no-mates, I don't have that many cards to do, and mine are pics of the kids, home made.  They are doing some also, cottonwool snowmen, for immediate family.  ;D

Awww Derek, you're really not missing out on too much fun, really! Perhaps you could go on a cleaning hol somewhere? You know, a week in a hotel, where you can clean to your heart's content... ;D Still in denial bout Christmas here, have 3 more days, then will belt out Jingle Bells and go into mad frenzy.... ;D

Quote from: Derekthefox on November 28, 2005, 12:46:42
Guess which way I voted  ;D ;D ;D

Derekthefox :D

Ummmmmmm - the same way as me  ;D

No cards for me this year.  I will be sending a goat.  Last few years I have bought crap cards form poundland and donated the money I would have spent to British Epilepsy Association.  Emails this year  ......... and a goat.

Only sending cards to a select few, bought immunisations for a child instead.

Those I do send will be posted 3rd week in December

well Redclanger, it seems like the bah humbug brigade is still alive and kicking. This is very reassuring for me, as I feel I am prolonging a literary tradition, and would hate to see it fade away in a dollop of Christmas gooiness !!!  ;D

Derekthefox :D

As I have prob said before I don't actually dislike Xmas.  I hate the greed involved.  Must have two tins of sweets.  Must have two types of Xmas cake.  Must have more food than you would normally eat in 3 months.  We don't by presents for each other that cost more then £2.  Then we treat each other in the year to something that we would normally not buy ourselves as it would be considered extravagant.  I am getting my sis a pair of posh garden gloves as she is too tight to buy good ones.  She is buying me a ladies fork.  I always use the huge one and moan it's too big.  It's the commercialism that pees me off.

Baggy You will so love a ladies fork. My old neighbour (now deceased) gave me an old one and I love it.Just can't hack the heavy ones now.

I got all keen and made our cards a couple weeks ago - now entire house is covered with glitter ;D Will be posting them when i get my act together & find addresses (that'll be Dec 23rd then...) ;)

Quote from: BAGGY on November 29, 2005, 13:20:24
We don't by presents for each other that cost more then £2.  Then we treat each other in the year to something that we would normally not buy ourselves as it would be considered extravagant.

I spend a ludicrous amount of money on presents for my husband and son at Christmas because I like to and want to, it doesn't make me feel guilty, it makes me feel wonderful that they will be receiving many things that they want but we could not afford throughout the year.  I donate to my specified charity every month (as does my husband) through direct debit and I participate in the "buy and extra gift" and hand it in at Superdrug for the Sally Army to give out each year too.

For next Christmas I am seriously considering applying to volunteer in one of the many homeless shelters, hopefully local to me, else in London.  I think it will be wonderful. 

Oh, and in keeping with the thread topic....2nd week of December, LOL!   

I commend your charity Yellow Petals.

Derekthefox :D

I love my £2 pressies from everyone.  When you have so many to buy for we kind of got into the 'jumpers for everyone' rut and it all got a bit silly coz we used to double up on pressies and spend the new year exchanging them.  We try to find really good idea for each other and the kids always make something for aunts, uncles and grandad (and he usually cries).  I have got some cracking pressies from the pound shop and various bits in closing down sales.  In July for example,I managed to get an artists carrying case for £2 for my nephew who is at uni doing art.  I suppose in the end it is what floats your boat.  As long as everyone has a great Xmas who cares if some of us think it's humbug.
(have to do pre-xmas dinner 2 weeks time as in-laws are going abroad for 3 mths.  And there was me thinking I had got off light this year with bubble and squeek day )

QuoteI am just not allowed..

You lucky bas**ard Derek. ;D

I can't vote in this poll - we start ours at the beginning of December and do 3 or 4 a day until we get to the end of the list - there's no option for "all of the above".

I make a lot of my cards & buy the rest from http://www.charitycards.co.uk/ - I would recommend them if anyone's looking for charity cards.

Romeo says "bah humbug" all the time in the run-up to Christmas but he loves getting Christmas cards  ::) !

YP, I could kiss ya!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

I've upset all my children by volunteering for Help The Aged on Christmas day, and have contacted www.thrive.co.uk to see if my pitiable skilss would be any use to them  ... < ... have also set up a private charity for the barmaids at my local, after all ... they have to put up with me ALL year !   :(

Glyn

You may well be right my friend...I told the Governor last night how lucky I was to be looked after in such a wonderful way... but that I felt terribly guilty...and I do. :-[

She told me not to be so silly..

My questions are..

1.  Am I eligible for a diploma in creep'olgy?

2.  or... is it merely the fact that having been married for so long and bringing up two wonderful daughters the female manipulative trait is rubbing off on to me??

HEY..Have I discovered, at long last, how the female mind works..  NO CHANCE  :o  :o

You do realise that I am in a hole here...when do I stop digging??? 

Derek

I use the pound shop for stocking fillers too, all sorts of weird things are bought by me !!! Gardening knickknacks, kitchen gadgets, CHOCOLATE ! , tubs of this and that, CHOCOLATE ! , tools, CHOCOLATE!, stationery, CHOCOLATE ! ...

Get my drift ... ?

Derekthefox :D

DtheF - Why do you feel quite light headed now? Is it all that CHOCOLATE or the thought of forcing rhubarb for your next supply of wine?

STOP DIGGING, DEREK!! Is one huge hole... ;D ;D ;D bit of infill may well be advised bout now... ::) ;)

Several reasons, Delilah, yes the rhubarb wine will do that, but I will be having a go at some parsnip before that I think ... whereas chocolate ... I tend to pig out, and then get that sort of sick feeling ...

Derekthefox :D