How are you spending the Christmas time?

[Master Ray]

Seeing as it's now December, thought I'd resurrect this one...

What you lot doing?

[Bunny]

Well. As the good lady is now in my part of the world, Im cooking the first Xmas dinner for us, the littlun and her daughter. Which is the first dinner I'll have cooked since splitting up with my ex some 6 years or so ago. So its my first Christmas at my home with my loved ones. Quite excited, as it feels more like a Christmas should be. Previously Ive spent Xmas over in Norfolk. As littlun is nearly three he's starting to understand it, so Im excited forvhim.
I'll shut up now!! 😉

[Wessexy Witch]

Prolly not a lot.
Watching telly I guess and taking it easy after the cancer op.
Got a brain scan on 20th Dec.
I'll have to buy most of my prezzies on line because I can't get put and about yet.

 My kids are 21 and 17 so the excitement has gone. They will both be spending Christmas with their dad ,but I suspect the older one will be working (he works in the local 'Spoons, and they never close).

It's the run up to Christmas I enjoy, especially working in school. This week I would of been doing Christmas crafts so I would be covered in glitter and cotton wool everyday making something festive. Teaching all the kids songs for the nativity and getting the costumes made, I love all that stuff !

I'll be singing to myself with a tea towel on my head this year !
 

[Amandistan]

My grandmother is paying for me to fly to America and back. If not I would be spending it in Morocco or Turkey.
In a mostly muslim county because I find that time to be very depressing.

[Master Ray]

My grandmother is paying for me to fly to America and back. If not I would be spending it in Morocco or Turkey.
In a mostly muslim county because I find that time to be very depressing.

Hope you have a nice time, A, and your problems related to 'home' / family don't upset you.

[Amandistan]

I will. I will only be there for a month and a half. Enough time to make a bit of money for longer travel.

[Pol]

Think I'm spending time with my mate this year, haven't finalised it yet but we spoke briefly about it today, there cooking thankfully for us both

[Coolea]

Two week holiday in Thailand, nice. Full moon party on Xmas day.

[Heno]

i'm going to think about homeless migrant people freezing and no one grasping the nettle and actually engaging in what looks to be one of the most ridiculously and inexplicable humanitarian situations ever created. they've been trying to close the borders for ages. and yet the refugee or asylum seeker or misplaced person is everywhere in the world and 95% the world is third world.

stupid questions?

dopey bastards

[Master Ray]

For the first time in many years, it looks like I'm actually gonna be having a proper Christmas dinner on the 25th... my Mum and her husband usually go to a hotel in Keswick, but after recent weather events... it's not happening.

Sounds a bit awful to be kind of happy about such bad events (I do feel terrible for those poor folks who got a tidal wave in their living rooms, honest!) but... I haven't had a proper Christmas Day dinner with family in years... does this make me a bad person? 

[Pol]

Every cloud ray ( no pun intended well maybe a bit) enjoy your meal

[Johnz]

I'll be working all the way through which is fine. Christmas is mid-summer here and as I'm from the northern hemisphere I find it hard to feel sentimental when it's 25 degrees and sunny.

[Stephanie]

A bit of "business as usual" at first:

seeing NMA in Cologne is definitely part of the holidays for me - so that is on tomorrow

On Christmas Eve, which is kind of the main thing here in Germany, me and my parents are visiting long-time friends of theirs for Christmas dinner

On the 25th it will be dinner at my parents' again, this time my aunt and her wife are coming over for the first time in forever. Not looking forward to this one but I hope it will be ok and will make my mum happy.

On the 26th there will be a couple of friends over at our place, I thought it would be nice to have a get-together with friends who, for various reasons, aren't overly keen on Christmas and dread the holidays.

So it should be quite nice, all in all and I hope everyone on here will have  at least o.k. holidays (nice would be better  ), whatever you are up to.

[Rusco]

On Christmas Eve, which is kind of the main thing here in Germany, me and my parents are visiting long-time friends of theirs for Christmas dinner

On the 25th it will be dinner at my parents' again, this time my aunt and her wife are coming over for the first time in forever. Not looking forward to this one but I hope it will be ok and will make my mum happy.

Oh, Stephanie, that reminds me about how damn excellent the German, traditional(?) restaurant food is. When we went to Berlin on the 30th anniversary gigs in 2010 one of the best part besides the gig was a perfect cookery you lot do over there in Germany: casserole, potatoes, cheese...  Althouh I'm not quite sure how "traditional" these ingredients are but they were really good!

[Stephanie]

Definitely a typical dish - glad you enjoyed it. 

Every region here has, of course, a set of dishes that distinguihes them from other regions - but a nice casserole with potatoes and cheese is something you'd be served about anywhere in Germany.