shaun4860 Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Mine aren't good memories sadly, lots better now I have my own young family Mines the other way round Had great xmas's as a child, Not so good now, just another day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Sitting at the oak table in the front room rather than the pine one in the kitchen. Oak logs on the fire. Wearing a new jumper with a kitten on the front which my Mum must have knitted and a purple check pinafore also made by Mum. Home made trifle and Christmas cake on the table which had a white linen table cloth. I think I was about 5 or 6 then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyska Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Mines the other way round Had great xmas's as a child, Not so good now, just another day How ironic You know what, I almost asked why you spend the 25th alone.....none of my business, but I hope you have a good day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 I remember the poem, 'twas the Night Before Christmas.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin lad Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 i remember in all the years at primary school i never once got a sixpence in my xmas pudding but everyone else did, not the same but my lad now 23 got drunk one boxing day when he was 4 by eating way too much home made tirimasu lol wonder if he will remember that when he 50 haha colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royboy Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Mine is when I jumped on my Grandads springers back it snapped and cut my lip, the next day Father Christmas was in school so I had my picture taken on his knee with a big cut on my lip ! They where the days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 I remember when christmas was all fields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 And you could go out on christmas eve and have an eggnogs, double creme de menthe, a drambuie, a triple Cointreau a bag of chips and have the fare for the tram home. You'd come home with more than you went out with some christmas. It was good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Sweepy Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 I remember one year asking for Basil Brush And as we sat opening are presents, My little sister was sick all over him, So I took my Basil Brush and wracked her over the head with him, I ended up in my bedroom and poor old Basil had a early bath Spent rest of Christmas day, staring at him hanging by his tail on the lining line as me nan's terrier tried ring him by the neck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 I vaguely remember my first Christmas, it was cold, very cold, and snowing.and it was night time, I remember seeing star's in the sky too. The only clothes I had were an old tatty red dressing gown with ladybirds for button's and a wooley bobble hat pulled over my ears. My first toy was a wooden sledge, that I was left by someone, well I say left I mean I was left on the sledge dumped down at lhe local orphanage. Oh how times have changed. Those were the good old days when Christmas was Christmas, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Sweepy Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Mr Dougy, you nearly have me feeling sorry for you, babes!!! xxxxSuzy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 I remember when christmas was all fields. people just dont know how lucky they are nowdays, where once was wilderness now are bungalows with those rather nice tie back curtains and faux brick drives, thank goodness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 I remember when christmas was all fields. And you could go out on christmas eve and have an eggnogs, double creme de menthe, a drambuie, a triple Cointreau a bag of chips and have the fare for the tram home. You'd come home with more than you went out with some christmas. It was good. That's the environment agency for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 I remember one year asking for Basil Brush And as we sat opening are presents, My little sister was sick all over him, So I took my Basil Brush and wracked her over the head with him, I ended up in my bedroom and poor old Basil had a early bath Spent rest of Christmas day, staring at him hanging by his tail on the lining line as me nan's terrier tried ring him by the neck Thank's for that Suzy - now all I have to do is clean the tea off the keyboard. One of my earliest Christmas Day memories is from the time when we kept poultry, and the rooster "Old Bill" had his neck wrung for Christmas dinner. All four of us kids were loudly lamenting the loss of "Old Bill", and I think that he ended up in the bin. And of course the other early Christmas when an evil aunt bought cap pistols for my brothers and I, and we were recreating the "Gunfight at the OK Corral" at 3am Christmas morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCamper1982 Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 It's quite touching to read everyone's stories, I always remember going to bed so exited and wakeing up with pillow cases full of presents at the bottom of my bed. My mum didn't have much money when I was little and I don't know how she managed to spoil me and my sister to this day. Good old mum, she's the best! Happy Christmas everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Causing a massive soot fall when I tried to climb up the chimney (big open fire) when Santa didn't bring me what I wanted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Sweepy Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Like most children we always put a plate of food for Father Christmas and some carrots for his reindeer I did the same with my boys and like my dad did with us Leave a few crumbs and a thank note My boys are all grown up now But it's still something I do, silly I know but Christmas wouldn't be Christmas if I didn't leave old Santa a bite to eat And funny enough it's always gone by morning But I have a feeling that's more to do with a 21 year old coming home with the munchies, after a night on the beer Then some old fat man breaking into my house, because I make such wonderful mince pies!!! Xxxsuzy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humperdingle Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Must have been around 10 years old... an Atari console, plugged into my black & white TV, playing Defender Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickS Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Staying with my grandparents in Ferndale in the Rhondda and sharing the attic bedroom with my brother and 4 cousins. Not much sleep but Father Christmas still managed to sneak in and fill the stockings we left out with chocolate coins, some toys, satsumas and, for reasons that remain a mystery, walnuts, hazelnuts and almonds but no nutcracker. Ice on the inside of windows, miners' boots, smell of coal smoke, having to turf sheep out of the garden - it all seems so long ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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