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CHRISTMAS 2020

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well folks its just over 5 weeks to christmas :rolleyes: ..we are all living in trying times and do not know what restrictions will be put in place due to covid but i think whatever they are we must try and make the most of it....for myself i usually have my brother and sister (both live alone) my youngest son and his partner over on christmas day..also my eldest son who lives here with me...even if we are allowed to all get together i think we have pretty much decided that for safety reasons we will all stay in our own homes this year...i will however be able to see my grandson james who lives next door as he is in my childcare bubble:) so we are starting this thread which i hope can be light hearted and be a way of for our members especially those who live alone to keep in touch over the festive season..let us know what plans you have or hope to have...post your favourite christmas songs for us all to enjoy....reminisce about how your christmases were as a child but above all please stay safe everyone we need you all back for 2021 :) :) ...i will kick start this off by playing one of my favourites and one that most of us will remember...the times i have rolled out of a pub to it...:):):)

lyn and the team xxx

 
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Lovely idea Lyn. Like you, this year, we as a family will not be meeting up in person but we will face time each other. We do miss our grandkids but best safe than sorry. I don’t know how to post music but if I did it would be Frank Sidebottom “Christmas is really fantastic”. ( I’ve always been odd)
 
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At the moment, our plans are to have a day at the seaside, maybe Filey in Yorkshire. I may even go for a dip in the sea.

We did this about ten years ago, thinking we were unique, only to find a two other groups of people doing exactly the same.
 
Grea said:
Lovely idea Lyn. Like you, this year, we as a family will not be meeting up in person but we will face time each other. We do miss our grandkids but best safe than sorry. I don’t know how to post music but if I did it would be Frank Sidebottom “Christmas is really fantastic”. ( I’ve always been odd)
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oh. how i loved it when mom took me down the bullring at night. to see all the baraboys carts lit up with lamps.and to go in peacocks to get another hand puppet for my punch and judy collection. and on the way home pop into lewis's toy floor for a look at the toys,and wish.... how loverly then yet so sad now.... merry christmas all.
 
paul stacey said:
Really enjoyed the film on #8, I wonder if anyone has film of the old Woolworth in the Bull Ring, or the meat market on Christmas eve in the Bull Ring, late 50's early 60's, would be wonderful. Paul
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hi paul i will see if i can find any of those for you

lyn
 
A very nice idea for a post, I think most of us are concerned how different this Christmas will be.
Our one Daughter is buying their tree this weekend and putting up the decorations so the grandchildren can start getting into the spirit, not sure if we will be able to see them though.
On a positive note, I have a house full of wine and bubbly from a postponed October wedding !
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Love this song and Stop The Cavalry. I used to be the last one to leave at work and I left the tapes on. Over and over.They lifted me. I remember one Christmas, a girl sobbing, in the Tele Sales as she had to stay on her section too. All the other offices and works were partying or gone to the pub or home. Christmas Eve they shut at lunch time. Over the years I had to stay either to put the classified to bed when it burst or fell massively short at the Newspaper, then years later when adverts had not come in, electronically. The Paper make up if you like, the planning was in Cov and it was electronically put together and Printed in Brum after. And I was remembering then the wild Christmases in my teens there when Santa took young wanna be's in to his grotto made for the staff childrens' party. Or in the dark rooms......or the pub at the back The Old Stag, heaving, full of us lot, Equity and Law and the Posties. But I always go back to my childhood. Getting caught writing on the wallpaper to Santa where my bedroom was, afraid he couldn't get my tricycle down the chimney, the mincepie and a carrot for the reindeer. Wearing my new itchy jumper to please Nan going over to give our presents to her grandad and great gran, in the snow, having my 3 gran's together and aunty and grandad on Christmas day ay ours. Mum and dad always invited a person on their own, over the years. Grandad made 5 Christmas cakes as presents, great gran made the puddings. Spoiled me, revelling in the Christmas cracker toys, putting a plastic Hercule Poirot moustache in my nose, I always sneezed Spoiled with toys bought on tick, which I didn't realise then. Bluebird Toffees in pretty tins. School carol service. Making home made decorations....Memories. This year, if we can, my partner's older daughter and chap will come as always on the day, the younger one won't she was going to say in a hotel with the grandchildren, new baby too. Thanks for much for the post.If I think of a song I like best I will put it on or tell you.
 
Nico said:
Love this song and Stop The Cavalry. I used to be the last one to leave at work and I left the tapes on. Over and over.They lifted me. I remember one Christmas, a girl sobbing, in the Tele Sales as she had to stay on her section too. All the other offices and works were partying or gone to the pub or home. Christmas Eve they shut at lunch time. Over the years I had to stay either to put the classified to bed when it burst or fell massively short at the Newspaper, then years later when adverts had not come in, electronically. The Paper make up if you like, the planning was in Cov and it was electronically put together and Printed in Brum after. And I was remembering then the wild Christmases in my teens there when Santa took young wanna be's in to his grotto made for the staff childrens' party. Or in the dark rooms......or the pub at the back The Old Stag, heaving, full of us lot, Equity and Law and the Posties. But I always go back to my childhood. Getting caught writing on the wallpaper to Santa where my bedroom was, afraid he couldn't get my tricycle down the chimney, the mincepie and a carrot for the reindeer. Wearing my new itchy jumper to please Nan going over to give our presents to her grandad and great gran, in the snow, having my 3 gran's together and aunty and grandad on Christmas day ay ours. Mum and dad always invited a person on their own, over the years. Grandad made 5 Christmas cakes as presents, great gran made the puddings. Spoiled me, revelling in the Christmas cracker toys, putting a plastic Hercule Poirot moustache in my nose, I always sneezed Spoiled with toys bought on tick, which I didn't realise then. Bluebird Toffees in pretty tins. School carol service. Making home made decorations....Memories. This year, if we can, my partner's older daughter and chap will come as always on the day, the younger one won't she was going to say in a hotel with the grandchildren, new baby too. Thanks for much for the post.If I think of a song I like best I will put it on or tell you

Great memories Nico, thanks for sharing them!
Lynn.
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chrissweep said:
A very nice idea for a post, I think most of us are concerned how different this Christmas will be.
Our one Daughter is buying their tree this weekend and putting up the decorations so the grandchildren can start getting into the spirit, not sure if we will be able to see them though.
On a positive note, I have a house full of wine and bubbly from a postponed October wedding !
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ahh ahh chris...wine and bubbly..we now know who to call on then when we can :D :D :D
 
I could go on forever:laughing:, Nan always wore her nice dress on Christmas day, 'me posh frock' it was though. Replaced her pop beads with glass ones. She got out a pewter boat shaped dish with punched holes in, threw a box of Quality Street in it, put her string of 10 cards up. When Grandad was alive he decorated their place with the paper bells you open out. I still like them.
He used to buy a small real tree till I was five for us at our house and some lights, all of twelve. They reminded me of little ice lollies. We had bakelite stars and icicles on ours that were supposed to reflect and didn't, foil crimped dangly tinsel, silver one side coloured the other that you twirl.It used to get squashed. A proper fairy with wings. Baubles not all round I liked the long pointy ones. and chocolate penknives and things in foil. The decorations had a special smell in their box. Dad's Rolls Royce and wherever mum worked at the time's childrens' Christmas party. I went to please them I think. And the panto. I liked that, and seeing Father Christmas at The Co Op, Woolworths and Owen Owen. Which was very special. It didn't occur to me as a child he was in 3 places and the sleigh ride to toy land didn't really move.I was afraid of the life size reindeer in Owen Owens.Great Gran took my hand and placed it on one under hers, a poignant memory. Mum got fed up as the prices went up and the rubbish plastic present usually noisy you were given. But I loved it. The tree house, with little windows and doors. "What lives in there mum?." "A mouse!" I have just started to give those Christmas decorations away to the grandchildren. Loved the Christmas service the crib with real straw, the Christmas story, something Dickenzian on TV, carol singers. Salvation Army. Am stopping for a bit, give someone else a chance!
 
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Astoness said:
well folks its just over 5 weeks to christmas :rolleyes: ..we are all living in trying times and do not know what restrictions will be put in place due to covid but i think whatever they are we must try and make the most of it....for myself i usually have my brother and sister (both live alone) my youngest son and his partner over on christmas day..also my eldest son who lives here with me...even if we are allowed to all get together i think we have pretty much decided that for safety reasons we will all stay in our own homes this year...i will however be able to see my grandson james who lives next door as he is in my childcare bubble:) so we are starting this thread which i hope can be light hearted and be a way of for our members especially those who live alone to keep in touch over the festive season..let us know what plans you have or hope to have...post your favourite christmas songs for us all to enjoy....reminisce about how your christmases were as a child but above all please stay safe everyone we need you all back for 2021 :) :) ...i will kick start this off by playing one of my favourites and one that most of us will remember...the times i have rolled out of a pub to it...:):):)

lyn and the team xxx

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Lyn, great idea and wonderful thoughts! And yes, a Very Merry Christmas to one and all!
 
I've got one of those doorbells that plays tunes, everyone hates them but I love it as we can hear it beter than a single ring. I've just changed it to play Jingle bells, nobody will be ringing it anyway though!!
Best wishes for however you spend Christmas.
rosie.
 
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