What are you doing for Christmas Day?

[FactualFrank]

Birthday on the 23rd, the main day on the 25th and then have other family coming around on Boxing Day. Nothing New Years Eve - overrated, so do bugger all.

What do you have planned?

[karatekid]

Turkey and plum duff.

[Claretincraven]

Nothing.
Doing my bit to reduce infection levels which will no doubt increase because all and sundry will be mixing with each other for 5 days just after the schools have broken up.
Hey ho.

[FactualFrank]

Turkey and plum duff.

Not sure she'd appreciate you calling her that.

[Burnley1989]

First time in my life it will just be me, my Mrs and my 3 kids, cooked for 22 at my house last year and 17 the year before so I’m actually looking forward to it for a change.

Going to my parents on Boxing Day though which I’m looking forward to.

[FactualFrank]

Nothing.
Doing my bit to reduce infection levels which will no doubt increase because all and sundry will be mixing with each other for 5 days just after the schools have broken up.
Hey ho.

You have to have a bit of fun and relax a bit. I'm only mixing with people in our bubble.

[FactualFrank]

First time in my life it will just be me, my Mrs and my 3 kids, cooked for 22 at my house last year and 17 the year before so I’m actually looking forward to it for a change.

Going to my parents on Boxing Day though which I’m looking forward to.

And there's thinking the 3 kids would be more than enough... 22!? You mad git.

[ElectroClaret]

I certainly won't miss NYE, awful night.
Probably getting ******, trying to forget this dreadful year.

[FactualFrank]

I certainly won't miss NYE, awful night.
Probably getting ******, trying to forget this dreadful year.

Are you with me, in that NYE is overrated?

[Burnley1989]

And there's thinking the 3 kids would be more than enough... 22!? You mad git.

Stopping the falling out was the hardest part, too many personalities and nationalities , plus I couldn’t heat enough soup My Mrs dad set one of the tables on fire with his napkin

[GodIsADeeJay81]

Wake up alone, early

Then go visit my 5yr old daughter, spend the morning there.

Pop round to my 2 teenage sons and drop their stuff off, but won't be staying there.

Round to a mates for Xmas food.

Go home alone and enjoy a peaceful evening

[FactualFrank]

Stopping the falling out was the hardest part, too many personalities and nationalities , plus I couldn’t heat enough soup My Mrs dad set one of the tables on fire with his napkin

Soup, soup, soup... we need more bloody soup!

[ElectroClaret]

Are you with me, in that NYE is overrated?

Are you kidding FF?
Various dick-heads demanding you shake hands with them, when you've no idea who they are.

Forced jollity is nauseating.

[FactualFrank]

Are you kidding FF?
Various dick-heads demanding you shake hands with them, when you've no idea who they are.

Forced jollity is nauseating.

I take it you agree with me then.

The last few years I think I might have been on here when midnight strikes!

[tim_noone]

If theres anything in it I'll be emptying santas sack as I do every Christmas morning.....

[FactualFrank]

If theres anything in it I'll be emptying santas sack as I do every Christmas morning.....

I've seen things like that on Pornhub.

[tim_noone]

I've seen things like that on Pornhub.

[Wile E Coyote]

new years eve can be good or bad, depends on the people and circumstances. I have had some great nights, and some truly awful.
if the yardstick is televised fodder, then you have got it badly wrong. jools holland and fireworks is a relatively new, and extremely ******* torrid affair. small wonder many are just grateful for the dawn of a new day.

[Vintage Claret]

We'll be observing the 3 household rule so just 7 of us at son, daughter-in-laws and grandsons house for Xmas dinner.

Might risk a hug of my family on arrival and departure, not had one for 9 months

[Awayfromburnley]

Top tip, especially to relatively intelligent people :

For God's sake don't change what you've been doing!! This isn't WW1 football in the trenches and everything stops for a day, it's a bloody killer disease and the only reason is being relaxed is political.

Kids finishing school, uni and all merging and add to it that everyone will be indoors-its bordering on criminal, in my opinion, that this is being done.

I despair that people are going to relax their approach , it is a cast iron certainty that people will die because of it.

From one Claret to another please just think before being an accessory in a death of a loved one.

[Vegas Claret]

cause of the time difference (8hrs) it's usually a case of get up early and get on skype etc to speak to folks back home. Then start drinking as early as possible whilst I prepare the food, eat food, fall asleep lol

[Holmeclaret]

Still deciding whether I should have relatives over. My parents live in an annexe to my house. Both of them are in their mid eighties and have done fantastically well during the pandemic, keeping themselves away from myself, my wife and kids as far as possible and we’ve tried to do the same. They would like family over but I feel we’ve all come this far now, why take the risk when they might get the vaccine soon? I know that they’ll want to do more than just wave from their part of the house. I’ll be like the Grinch who stole Christmas if I insist on cancelling but I think I’ll have to do so.

[ClaretAndJew]

I'm going to wake up alone. I will then spend all day doing nothing. Order a takeaway. Eat. Go to bed.

Christmas? Bah, Humbug.

[Foulthrow]

I'm going to wake up alone. I will then spend all day doing nothing. Order a takeaway. Eat. Go to bed.

Christmas? Bah, Humbug.

Well. You are Jewish so why would you be celebrating?

[Holmeclaret]

[clarethomer]

We are not relaxing our approach so will just be us over Xmas.

Been invited to the in laws where there would also be an elderly person invited too. Given we have primary school kids who could be asymptomatic, I couldn’t live with the thought of anything happening as a result of these relaxed days to the elderly relative.

The in-laws are concerned at the other impacts of loneliness this is having on the elderly relative so we made the decision that the best way was to make that as safe as possible.

There will be plenty more Christmases to enjoy so happy to just do my bit this year for the greater good.

[jrgbfc]

I've always preferred Boxing Day really. Footy and the pub but not sure what I'll be doing this year, will feel very strange.
Not particularly bothered about NYE, but I'll definitely be raising a glass to celebrate the end of 2020. Hopefully get out for a game of golf or a decent walk on New Years Day.

[NewClaret]

We usually see the in laws on Christmas Day but my father in law has a round of chemotherapy two days before and has been shielding all year due to other health conditions, so that was a very easy decision to cancel.

My family, who live in a tier two area, want to get together as normal on Christmas Eve. But as others have said, that involves 1 primary school, 3 high school and one Uni student mixing, so I’m trying my hardest to resist without being the grinch. I’ve proposed we do it virtually but not sure how that’s gone down with the others yet. Other options have been mentioned, like all visiting at different times, paying for tests the day before, etc, but to me it’s easier & safer to do something virtually.

It is a hard choice. I haven’t seen my wider family at all since March and my parents only once outdoors. I do think you’d be incredibly unlucky to have it and pass it on with infection rates 0.5-1% in our area, the chances are low, but I’d never forgive myself if I did so best to keep everyone safe & wait until next year is my view.

[expoultryboy]

Normally have my lads and their family round on Christmas day , but this year its just me and the mrs . We've all decided to have a large family get together at Easter instead . Makes more sense

[Steve1956]

Just me & the wife,she will cook all day,i will laze about playing with my new toys,a bit like every other day really.

[NewClaret]

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Just me & the wife,she will cook all day,i will laze about playing with my new toys,a bit like every other day really.

What have you asked Father Christmas for mate?

[Steve1956]

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What have you asked Father Christmas for mate?

Peace love & Happiness for the world.

[NewClaret]

Peace love & Happiness for the world.

Just this board would be a start mate!

[Steve1956]

Just this board would be a start mate!

That's what I had in mind when I said it

[WadingInDeeper]

Our Christmas Day is usually very busy and very hectic, rushing from home, to nursing home, back home for a light dinner, out to the in-laws for tea or preparing from them to come to us.

This year we are looking forward to a break, relaxing, and will almost certainly stay in our bubble of 5. After much discussion, one child who works down south is staying with friends down there as we all felt it wasn't that safe to travel, they would need to isolate on return and a recent cross-country train wasn't that pleasant. We will have pre-recorded a Christmas morning service ready to stream on-line, no nursing home to visit (even if we could) as my father passed away and, with their children home for Christmas, our in-laws will have a Christmas bubble without there being that many in it (although we may walk past if rules allow for it). This year will be strangely relaxing.

We would have been very cautious about forming a Christmas bubble bearing in mind when schools break up and the time for symptoms to show.

[RalphCoatesComb]

Watch a re-run of my favourite Stupid VAR decisions

[Bosscat]

If theres anything in it I'll be emptying santas sack as I do every Christmas morning.....

Too much information Timbob... how you conduct your sex-life is not a topic we wish to discuss on here

[ClaretTony]

For the first time ever I'll be spending Christmas on my own this year but hoping I can get back to a proper Christmas with family and then friends and football in 2021.

[Tribesmen]

Not much just the two of us so plan to keep off the beer until the dinner is cooked then let the party begin .

[Steve1956]

I'm going to wake up alone. I will then spend all day doing nothing. Order a takeaway. Eat. Go to bed.

Christmas? Bah, Humbug.

You can come round to my place if your alone buddy,i'm going to have loads of new toys to play with..no one should be alone at Christmas.

[Bigvince]

I’m gonna open the last window on my advent calendar

[FactualFrank]

Just to confirm, we won't be going stupid. There will be 5 of us on Christmas Day and 9 on Boxing Day and that will be it. My brother-in-law's mother won't be coming due to her age.

[Billy Balfour]

It will be me and missus and the two pan lids in our house this Christmas. We are not going to change what we have been doing for nearly 9 months, especially when a vaccine is just around the corner. We'll take our presents round to our parents and grandparents and any brief socialising will be done at a safe social-distance in their gardens. This way we can be sure that the only 'gift' we give them this Christmas is one that they actually unwrap and enjoy, not one that might put them in hospital or worse.

[FactualFrank]

I’m gonna open the last window on my advent calendar

I bought one in Liverpool. All the windows are already smashed in.

[tim_noone]

You can come round to my place if your alone buddy,i'm going to have loads of new toys to play with..no one should be alone at Christmas.

What about..CT?

[kentonclaret]

Judging by the scenes in Central London (outside Harrods) yesterday and at Nottingham's outdoor Christmas Market "being sensible" isn't even in the vocabulary of many people, pandemic or no pandemic.

[FactualFrank]

Judging by the scenes in Central London (outside Harrods) yesterday and at Nottingham's outdoor Christmas Market "being sensible" isn't even in the vocabulary of many people, pandemic or no pandemic.

Common sense is severely lacking in this country. The country overall are a bit thick.

[TVC15]

Usually a Christmas of 3 families and 2 sets of grandparents - and more recently a few boyfriends and girlfriends of the grown up adult children too.

With elderly grandparents and my nieces and nephews returning from University etc our family have decided it’s too much of a risk - the other 2 families and one set of grandparents are still going ahead but we have declined and the 4 of us are going to have Christmas with just my dad round as he’s inside our bubble and on his own.

It will still be a nice day but like the rest of this year not normal and no doubt tinged with a bit of sadness too.

Hopefully next year back to some kind of normality for most of us.

[IanMcL]

Great Escape anyone?

[TVC15]

Great Escape anyone?

Yep would love to !!

Oh you mean the film ?