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I'm ready for Christmas. It's a magical time of year . :wub:
Please add your memories, experiences and videos on this thread and maybe for once we could have a wonderful British/Canadian 2019 Christmas together. ps I love mince pies :wub::wub: |
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This is the best, and most well-timed thread in the history of threads. |
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Most of my favourites have already been posted.. :D
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This is not just a music thread, it's good to share Christmas the traditions that we've had and now have transitioned and combined from the UK to Canada. I like buy a pork pie, stilton cheese, pickled onions for Christmas eve. :santa:
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Christmas morning our tradition is to have a bloody mary with a bagel, garlic and herb cream cheese and smoked salmon with a squeeze of lemon and a smidge of black pepper (freshly ground), followed by a coffee.. and then opening our stockings :D
We do mostly 'silly' santa sacks except for one or two fairly sensible items (such as socks and chocolate). After the stockings we might indulge in another small drink (water or decaf for me, lol).. before the first of the proper presents is opened. There are certain foods that must be bought at Christmas. I must make mince pies and proper roast potato's and stuffing - or there would be a rebellion. There must be mini sausage rolls, walkers shortbread, chocolate, smoked salmon, cambazola and brie, pickled onions.. Christmas wouldn't be the same without them! :D |
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Originally Posted by Siouxie
(Post 12757492)
Christmas morning our tradition is to have a bloody mary with a bagel, garlic and herb cream cheese and smoked salmon with a squeeze of lemon and a smidge of black pepper (freshly ground), followed by a coffee.. and then opening our stockings :D
We do mostly 'silly' santa sacks except for one or two fairly sensible items (such as socks and chocolate). After the stockings we might indulge in another small drink (water or decaf for me, lol).. before the first of the proper presents is opened. There are certain foods that must be bought at Christmas. I must make mince pies and proper roast potato's and stuffing - or there would be a rebellion. There must be mini sausage rolls, walkers shortbread, chocolate, smoked salmon, cambazola and brie, pickled onions.. Christmas wouldn't be the same without them! :D |
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Originally Posted by Siouxie
(Post 12757492)
There are certain foods that must be bought at Christmas. I must make mince pies and proper roast potato's and stuffing - or there would be a rebellion. There must be mini sausage rolls, walkers shortbread, chocolate, smoked salmon, cambazola and brie, pickled onions.. Christmas wouldn't be the same without them!:D
Glass of Bristol Cream before eating. |
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12757660)
Quality Street, although it would be nicer if they included a coffee cream. Whisky marmalade. And, of course, not just one stuffing. ;)
Glass of Bristol Cream before eating. but I have got two bottles of Croft original safely stashed, so cake and some Wensleydale and all will be well |
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Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12757470)
This is not just a music thread, it's good to share Christmas the traditions that we've had and now have transitioned and combined from the UK to Canada. I like buy a pork pie, stilton cheese, pickled onions for Christmas eve. :santa:
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Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5
(Post 12757678)
coffee creams :sick: are a crime against chocolate |
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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12757685)
I know that I don't really belong on this thread, but just wanted to quickly say that the traditional British roast Christmas dinner survives in Oz, even though it's usually stinking hot on Christmas Day. As the cook I sometimes long for the barbies and seafood platters my friends do, but there's something about a 'proper' dinner that makes me keep doing it. My lovely Liverpool lad loves them too.
You're always welcome in our cozy Canadian corner :welcome: |
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I must say I do miss the traditional Christmas of the past....and most of those songs remind me of them....since my parents passed away and my sister and cousins got married and had children, it was never the same again, one of the reasons I left and came to Canada... as I knew Id never relive those great family traditions...
Christmas's here have been mixed, but then these last 3 or 4 years I have developed my own tradition that seems to work well; Christmas Eve party at my buddies place....stay over there for the night.....then head back to my own place (c/w quality hangover) and after a skype with my sis and nephews in the UK, I begin to prepare my Christmas curry from scratch.... .no not a turkey or sprout in sight! lol I wanted to break with tradition for reasons I have stated above. Anyway not sure how I manage to prepare and cook it with a hang over but somehow its theraputic.... the couple of stiff kraken and eggnogs help enormously though!! Curry takes 2-3 hours to prepare, so its usually done around 5pm....around this time a lot of my friends arrive (after they have done their family stuff) for the evening.....we usually have drinks banter, play stupid made up games (it was guess the TV theme tune last year! lol) and people help themselves to curry all in a very casual manner, no big table or anything like that. So thats been a great new tradition for the last 3 or 4 years, last year was a lot of fun. Not sure what will happen this year as I dont live close enough to my friends anymore.....(i moved to be closer to a new job at the beginning of this year) however my cousin and her husband are coming over to spend a week with me....picking them up at Pearson on Christmas day!!....so I am really looking forward to this year! . |
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Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12757470)
This is not just a music thread, it's good to share Christmas the traditions that we've had and now have transitioned and combined from the UK to Canada. I like buy a pork pie, stilton cheese, pickled onions for Christmas eve. :santa:
Nice one!!! :thumbup: Thats one tradition I uphold......a visit to the British shop for pork pie, pickled onions, stilton for a Christmas Eve!! |
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Originally Posted by Paul_Shepherd
(Post 12757753)
Nice one!!! :thumbup:
Thats one tradition I uphold......a visit to the British shop for pork pie, pickled onions, stilton for a Christmas Eve!!
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12757470)
This is not just a music thread, it's good to share Christmas the traditions that we've had and now have transitioned and combined from the UK to Canada. I like buy a pork pie, stilton cheese, pickled onions for Christmas eve. :santa:
What about Mince Pies, Christmas Cake, Christmas Pudding, Quality Street, Roses...all the good stuff? |
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I just wanted to put it out there that it doesn't matter where you are in the world, whether you're in darkest Peru, deepest Africa, the Gobi desert, one of the plethora of Sunshine coasts around the world or the UK, everybody is welcome to share their Christmas or any other religious or secular holiday stories and traditions on this thread.
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Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12757991)
I just wanted to put it out there that it doesn't matter where you are in the world, whether you're in darkest Peru, deepest Africa, the Gobi desert, one of the plethora of Sunshine coasts around the world or the UK, everybody is welcome to share their Christmas or any other religious or secular holiday stories and traditions on this thread.
edit. Siouxie, I multi-quoted your post but it didn't appear. Message was for you too :) |
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OK who is waiting for the 1st poster to point out that the title should be changed to the nice Holiday music thread after all it is 2019 and we should be inclusive of all?
Those of us who are old enough remember the time when it was Christmas and nobody was offended by the word Christmas. Perhaps your parents got a Littlewoods catalogue for you to thumb through to choose your present well in advance as Amazon wasn't around. You would spend hours looking at it and not distracted by your best friends current status on Facebook or what somebody had made for supper or being a follower of the Kardashians. Christmas Eve would be spent in front of the TV picking which of the 3 channels you were going to watch. Well you didn't really pick the channel as Dad decided what was going to be watched. You put out mince pies and a glass of Sherry (Vat 69) for Santa and you went to bed early in anticipation of the following morning. You would get up bright and early without checking your cell phone or turning on the computer. There would be brightly wrapped boxes under the Christmas tree each with a label on indicating who it was for. This year was the special one as if all your wishes were going to come true the item you wanted wouldn't be in a box. You would look around knowing it was also too big to fit under the tree and there it was the bright yellow Raleigh Chopper. But before you could take it out for a test ride you knew you had to take the dog out for a walk. So you put your winter coat on and if you were lucky in the present's stakes you might find a new flat cap or a pair of clogs. You would get a piece of tinsel from the tree and attach it to the dogs collar and then take your whippet for a walk. Later on in the day you might cycle over to your Aunties for more mince pies and to show off your new bike and as a sign of goodwill you would take the bucket out to the coal shed and fill it with coal so she wouldn't have to go out later herself. But the best thing was in those days is that you could go around to the next door neighbours house and ask their 12 year old daughter if she wanted a ride on your chopper? |
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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
(Post 12757755)
Men! :rolleyes:
What about Mince Pies, Christmas Cake, Christmas Pudding, Quality Street, Roses...all the good stuff? Anyway back to food....the other good thing about Christmas..... cheese!! lots of it!! ahhh....fantastic!! Cheese is already the food of gods and Christmas is a good excuse to buy it all!! because we all know cheese is very expensive in Canada and no one knows why! so we can treat ourselves at Christmas. |
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I heard Jingle Bells on the radio yesterday. It depressed me no end.
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Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
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...your parents got a Littlewoods catalogue for you to thumb through to choose your present well in advance as Amazon wasn't around. You would spend hours looking at it ...
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When I was a kid we would go to my dad's sisters house for dinner on Christmas Eve, all my cousins would be there, grandparents would be there, we did that every year until 1992, that point on we didn't do anything for Christmas Eve and I rarely saw my cousins.
On Christmas Day as a kid we would go to my great aunts house for lunch after we opened our gifts from Santa.
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12757470)
This is not just a music thread, it's good to share Christmas the traditions that we've had and now have transitioned and combined from the UK to Canada. I like buy a pork pie, stilton cheese, pickled onions for Christmas eve. :santa:
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Originally Posted by Oink
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The most magical thing about Christmas when I was eight, it was when my grandparents came over to our house, they would turn up around 11:00am (sherry time) and then instantly my parents stopped fighting with each other. That was Christmas, it was tranquility (watching a new film after Christmas dinner) up until they [grandparents] left around 6:30pm and then it all kicked off again. :( Luckily they had bought me an Atari game console which distracted me from the vitriol. :) :(
I love the idea that we are all over here making our own ‘new’ traditions, and they are just as good for involving jars of pickled onions :thumb up Christmas for us would be unthinkable without a Lindt advent calendar, a packet of bread sauce mix (I’m the only one who eats it) and eggs Benedict which my son calls French Eggs...as we always had them there on Christmas morn....and of course Brussel Sprouts! I have have a secret grin when I imagine him in 20 years time, feeling he can’t possibly survive the holiday period without some insubstantial rubbish that we have done without trying, but has been there and has become part of ‘his’ tradition...how sweet is that! For me...since coming to Canada, the season starts when some radio station or another plays...I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas...I’d never heard it before, but It became an instant flagpole for the period. |
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Originally Posted by MillieF
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Sounds rather like the first parts of my life...Christmas between skirmishes...and vitriol all round... I love the idea that we are all over here making our own ‘new’ traditions, and they are just as good for involving jars of pickled onions :thumb up Christmas for us would be unthinkable without a Lindt advent calendar, a packet of bread sauce mix (I’m the only one who eats it) and eggs Benedict which my son calls French Eggs...as we always had them there on Christmas morn....and of course Brussel Sprouts! I have have a secret grin when I imagine him in 20 years time, feeling he can’t possibly survive the holiday period without some insubstantial rubbish that we have done without trying, but has been there and has become part of ‘his’ tradition...how sweet is that! For me...since coming to Canada, the season starts when some radio station or another plays...I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas...I’d never heard it before, but It became an instant flagpole for the period. |
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Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12757991)
I just wanted to put it out there that it doesn't matter where you are in the world, whether you're in darkest Peru, deepest Africa, the Gobi desert, one of the plethora of Sunshine coasts around the world or the UK, everybody is welcome to share their Christmas or any other religious or secular holiday stories and traditions on this thread.
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Originally Posted by MillieF
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and eggs Benedict which my son calls French Eggs...as we always had them there on Christmas morn. Gawd. I just so love those. Maybe with a large portobello mushroom and a little spinach. Fabulous. But..but...but Brussel sprouts for breakfast? Oh my. That's enthusiasm is that. |
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