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Christmas Day Thread
It's been a crap year, but there's been some good posters on here over the last 12 months, where we've discussed pretty much everything at least once!
I'm spending the day on my own due to my nephew's classmate testing positive and therefore going around for their 'Christmas Day 2' on Tuesday... I told both my nephews they get two Christmas Days this year. I've had a pigs in blanket sandwhich so that'll do me for dinner.
Thoughts go out to those who lost loved ones this year which will obviously be a lot. Today will be very tough for them.
Anyway, just thought it would be nice to have a thread for those on their own and anybody else shattered after their Christmas dinner.
Just looking to see what's on the box to try and pass the time.
I'm spending the day on my own due to my nephew's classmate testing positive and therefore going around for their 'Christmas Day 2' on Tuesday... I told both my nephews they get two Christmas Days this year. I've had a pigs in blanket sandwhich so that'll do me for dinner.
Thoughts go out to those who lost loved ones this year which will obviously be a lot. Today will be very tough for them.
Anyway, just thought it would be nice to have a thread for those on their own and anybody else shattered after their Christmas dinner.
Just looking to see what's on the box to try and pass the time.
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ATB Frank..... chin up enjoy the sunny day!
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Lovely thoughts, FF.
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Nice one Frank - hope you manage to have a decent day.
Merry Christmas to everyone, especially spades
Merry Christmas to everyone, especially spades
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Iβm hoping for a food parcel later today (Christmas dinner being delivered from my nieceβs).
Best wishes to all of you.
Best wishes to all of you.
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Hope you have as good a day as possible, we are doing a lunch with family, outside ( at least it is dry) then home.
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Merry Christmas, Frank and all other posters.
Had to take the eldest for a covid test yesterday, result awaited. Wonβt spoil our day weβll all be together but sensible enough to keep apart.
Love to all.
Had to take the eldest for a covid test yesterday, result awaited. Wonβt spoil our day weβll all be together but sensible enough to keep apart.
Love to all.
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Happy Christmas everyone. Letβs get to 2021 safely, and then hopefully we can restore some sanity to proceedings.
Up the clarets.
Up the clarets.
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Merry Xmas everybody
...now back to bed!
...now back to bed!
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Merry Christmas all. I'll be ordering a huge pizza later, as per tradition. Going to do nothing all day (I am in isolation anyway). Probably play Cyberpunk 2077, watch Netflix and then crack open some Brewdog later this eve.
It's a quiet one and I'm on my own but I do not mind.
Happy Christmas and UTC.
It's a quiet one and I'm on my own but I do not mind.
Happy Christmas and UTC.
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Best wishes and happy reading.
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Merry Christmas to all. Hope to see you here soon
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Merry Christmas Frank heres to when we can all get back to normalFactualFrank wrote: βFri Dec 25, 2020 10:59 amIt's been a crap year, but there's been some good posters on here over the last 12 months, where we've discussed pretty much everything at least once!
I'm spending the day on my own due to my nephew's classmate testing positive and therefore going around for their 'Christmas Day 2' on Tuesday... I told both my nephews they get two Christmas Days this year. I've had a pigs in blanket sandwhich so that'll do me for dinner.
Thoughts go out to those who lost loved ones this year which will obviously be a lot. Today will be very tough for them.
Anyway, just thought it would be nice to have a thread for those on their own and anybody else shattered after their Christmas dinner.
Just looking to see what's on the box to try and pass the time.
All the best fellow UTC'ers
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Got t'interweb back on yesterday after being down for a week. Wife looks like she's spending the day in bed catching up on and watching Netflix and Now TV.
On my own downstairs at present. Seem to be playing butler today. Fetching her coffee and crumpets earlier. Got delivered mixed nuts instead of chestnuts the other week and we don't own a nutcracker so spent half the morning shelling nuts with a tin opener.....don't ask!
She's just buggered off upstairs with a 250g bag of Cashews as well.
I'll be making liver, onions and veggies for dinner later. Have to admit. That bottle of Merlot and those bottles of Heineken are calling my name. I've been up since 4am so feels like mid afternoon for me now. She's surprised I haven't opened the wine yet
Best wishes to all.
On my own downstairs at present. Seem to be playing butler today. Fetching her coffee and crumpets earlier. Got delivered mixed nuts instead of chestnuts the other week and we don't own a nutcracker so spent half the morning shelling nuts with a tin opener.....don't ask!
She's just buggered off upstairs with a 250g bag of Cashews as well.
I'll be making liver, onions and veggies for dinner later. Have to admit. That bottle of Merlot and those bottles of Heineken are calling my name. I've been up since 4am so feels like mid afternoon for me now. She's surprised I haven't opened the wine yet
Best wishes to all.
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Merry Christmas to all. I hope everyone who's spending it alone is doing okay.
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Sorry Ben but a tin opener you have to shareBenWickes wrote: βFri Dec 25, 2020 12:05 pmGot t'interweb back on yesterday after being down for a week. Wife looks like she's spending the day in bed catching up on and watching Netflix and Now TV.
On my own downstairs at present. Seem to be playing butler today. Fetching her coffee and crumpets earlier. Got delivered mixed nuts instead of chestnuts the other week and we don't own a nutcracker so spent half the morning shelling nuts with a tin opener.....don't ask!
She's just buggered off upstairs with a 250g bag of Cashews as well.
I'll be making liver, onions and veggies for dinner later. Have to admit. That bottle of Merlot and those bottles of Heineken are calling my name. I've been up since 4am so feels like mid afternoon for me now. She's surprised I haven't opened the wine yet
Best wishes to all.
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Sounds like something I'd do. I bought 3 tins of custard the other day from the local off-license. Realised when I got home, they didn't have a ring pull and I don't have a tin-opener, so resorted to using a hammer and a sharp knife.
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Ahh yes the ever reliable hammer.FactualFrank wrote: βFri Dec 25, 2020 12:10 pmSounds like something I'd do. I bought 3 tins of custard the other day from the local off-license. Realised when I got home, they didn't have a ring pull and I don't have a tin-opener, so resorted to using a hammer and a sharp knife.
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Merry Christmas to Clarets the world over.
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Ever reliable tool the hammer aka Manchester Screwdriver
I did that when camping once using stuff from the tool kit on the bike because I had forgotten a bloody can openerFactualFrank wrote: βFri Dec 25, 2020 12:10 pmSounds like something I'd do. I bought 3 tins of custard the other day from the local off-license. Realised when I got home, they didn't have a ring pull and I don't have a tin-opener, so resorted to using a hammer and a sharp knife.
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Grandma's just skypted auntie. Made her day!
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Iβm over in Marbella with the family in our villa until the new Itβs a lovely 19c and the Sam Miguel is nice cold and crisp all the best everyone
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Hope everyone has a good day . Frank , you're Christmas on Tuesday will taste all the better after weve beaten leeds .
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Just me and my old man this year, we went for a stroll in the local park earlier, it's cold and crisp up here today, but for once it's dry amazingly,
Surprisingly busy with dog walkers and families meeting up, I guess many folks just want to get out of the house well they still can.
I've got a few quizzes I'll post soon if anyone wants to work their grey matter after all that Xmas food.
Surprisingly busy with dog walkers and families meeting up, I guess many folks just want to get out of the house well they still can.
I've got a few quizzes I'll post soon if anyone wants to work their grey matter after all that Xmas food.
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Merry Christmas to you all from rainy Vancouver. Looking forward to Boxing day dinner, a roast with mashed potatoes gravy and yorkshire puds.
All I want for Christmas is to beat Leeds
Take care all you Clarets.
All I want for Christmas is to beat Leeds
Take care all you Clarets.
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Sam Miguel?pushpinpussy wrote: βFri Dec 25, 2020 2:58 pmIβm over in Marbella with the family in our villa until the new Itβs a lovely 19c and the Sam Miguel is nice cold and crisp all the best everyone
Is that the Aldi knock-off version?
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Nearly time for boxing day...roll on!
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Hear! Hear! at least you get the footy on Boxing Day, out of interest why couldn't they have played matches on Christmas day this year, given the hectic schedule most clubs are faced with over the next week or so this could have been one way of allowing teams more time between fixtures.
Taking BFC as just one example, we played Wolves on the 21st, then have a 6 day window until the Leeds game, and then face the prospect of Sheff Utd 2 days later, and I'm sure we can't be the only club in this situation, I know tv dictate a lot of the kick off times, but given the fact many people can't visit friends and family this Christmas, the footy would have been a welcome boost on the big day itself.
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Coronation st and a Burnley game clashing ..eeekkk.. it wouldn't work half the posters on here would watch the street b4 us!tiger76 wrote: βFri Dec 25, 2020 5:38 pmHear! Hear! at least you get the footy on Boxing Day, out of interest why couldn't they have played matches on Christmas day this year, given the hectic schedule most clubs are faced with over the next week or so this could have been one way of allowing teams more time between fixtures.
Taking BFC as just one example, we played Wolves on the 21st, then have a 6 day window until the Leeds game, and then face the prospect of Sheff Utd 2 days later, and I'm sure we can't be the only club in this situation, I know tv dictate a lot of the kick off times, but given the fact many people can't visit friends and family this Christmas, the footy would have been a welcome boost on the big day itself.
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Just had a lovely day out walking on the moors with my partner. Bottle of Champers al fresco. I am so lucky, sometimes we forget.
All the very best to all of you! And let's hope for better things to come
All the very best to all of you! And let's hope for better things to come
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Now time for Celebrity Chase.
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That will be depressing ...dont do it!
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Ho Ho Ho from me and my best friend, Spot.
He says it's been a woof year but, having started as underdogs, we worked like a dog and, as they say, every dog has its day. We certainly made a dog's dinner out of some pre-Covid matches and proved that you can't teach an old dog new tricks as we went down to our annual 5-0 drubbing at the Ethiad.
Sean was as sick as the proverbial and unleashed the dogs of war on the likes of Watford, Palace, West Ham and Norwich. Sean was now like a dog with two wotsits! He proved that every dog has its day as we finished in the top half of the Premier League.
As the new season started, it was obvious that we'd gone to the dogs and Sean was quickly on the dog and bone to the chairman who expressed the view that this is a dog-eat-dog World and he'd be lucky to get a doggy bag, let alone the dog's dinner when it came to new transfers!
Sean felt that the tail was wagging the dog and that he'd been had over the physio's table, doggy style. He was intent on proving that his bite was far worse than his bark; he was dog-tired of being treated like a dogsbody and marched into the Board room explaining that the dog-house was not for him. It was time to let sleeping dogs lie and call the dogs off. The chairman looked at Sean with puppy-dog eyes and told him that he believed Sean to be the dog's b*ll*cks of managers. Sean's thoughts turned, again, to the physio's table and he shuddered. Time for some hair of the dog and to return to our strengths; time to fight like cats and dogs.
Once again, Sean unleashed the dogs of war on Palace (again), Arsenal and Wolves. The chairman said he had to go and see a man about a dog and wasn't seen again. The fans, once more, expressed their puppy love for their beloved heroes and all was right with the World.
I'm not sure that sending Spot on that creative writing course was a good idea
He says it's been a woof year but, having started as underdogs, we worked like a dog and, as they say, every dog has its day. We certainly made a dog's dinner out of some pre-Covid matches and proved that you can't teach an old dog new tricks as we went down to our annual 5-0 drubbing at the Ethiad.
Sean was as sick as the proverbial and unleashed the dogs of war on the likes of Watford, Palace, West Ham and Norwich. Sean was now like a dog with two wotsits! He proved that every dog has its day as we finished in the top half of the Premier League.
As the new season started, it was obvious that we'd gone to the dogs and Sean was quickly on the dog and bone to the chairman who expressed the view that this is a dog-eat-dog World and he'd be lucky to get a doggy bag, let alone the dog's dinner when it came to new transfers!
Sean felt that the tail was wagging the dog and that he'd been had over the physio's table, doggy style. He was intent on proving that his bite was far worse than his bark; he was dog-tired of being treated like a dogsbody and marched into the Board room explaining that the dog-house was not for him. It was time to let sleeping dogs lie and call the dogs off. The chairman looked at Sean with puppy-dog eyes and told him that he believed Sean to be the dog's b*ll*cks of managers. Sean's thoughts turned, again, to the physio's table and he shuddered. Time for some hair of the dog and to return to our strengths; time to fight like cats and dogs.
Once again, Sean unleashed the dogs of war on Palace (again), Arsenal and Wolves. The chairman said he had to go and see a man about a dog and wasn't seen again. The fans, once more, expressed their puppy love for their beloved heroes and all was right with the World.
I'm not sure that sending Spot on that creative writing course was a good idea
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Iβd crack open a beer mate and tell her to crack her own nutsBenWickes wrote: βFri Dec 25, 2020 12:05 pmGot t'interweb back on yesterday after being down for a week. Wife looks like she's spending the day in bed catching up on and watching Netflix and Now TV.
On my own downstairs at present. Seem to be playing butler today. Fetching her coffee and crumpets earlier. Got delivered mixed nuts instead of chestnuts the other week and we don't own a nutcracker so spent half the morning shelling nuts with a tin opener.....don't ask!
She's just buggered off upstairs with a 250g bag of Cashews as well.
I'll be making liver, onions and veggies for dinner later. Have to admit. That bottle of Merlot and those bottles of Heineken are calling my name. I've been up since 4am so feels like mid afternoon for me now. She's surprised I haven't opened the wine yet
Best wishes to all.
Merry Christmas
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Iβve spent the last two hours building a Lego Turf and Iβm not even out of the ground yet
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My mate built that he was well impressed he did it in 6 hours....
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Brilliantly posted from a local ip addresspushpinpussy wrote: βFri Dec 25, 2020 2:58 pmIβm over in Marbella with the family in our villa until the new Itβs a lovely 19c and the Sam Miguel is nice cold and crisp all the best everyone
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When the seagulls follow the trawler ...... dont believe everything you read on a msg. Board
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Last time I boast about being on an exotic holiday whilst being sat at home