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-   -   Time for a Christmas thread? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/time-christmas-thread-905929/)

dave_j Dec 22nd 2017 7:46 am
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12404194)
Luxury
But ah wos 40 at the tyme.

Siouxie Dec 22nd 2017 8:39 am
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 12404200)
In our house he left them in the front room. Aka the best end, the front parlour. What poncey southerners would call the leeownge.
Who are you calling a poncy southerner Mrs? Me Mam came from Yorkshire and me Da' came from Wales!

I can't help it if I was born 'dahn sarf'

:lol:

caretaker Dec 22nd 2017 9:12 am
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Shortest day of the year, as opposed to the tallest day of the year.

bats Dec 22nd 2017 9:35 am
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12404214)
Who are you calling a poncy southerner Mrs? Me Mam came from Yorkshire and me Da' came from Wales!

I can't help it if I was born 'dahn sarf'

:lol:
So you had a leeownge?

Siouxie Dec 22nd 2017 10:17 am
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 12404242)
So you had a leeownge?
One wouldn't exactly pronounce it like that, but yes, one did - and also a dining room and a scullery. :p


What's the one present that you got for Christmas that you remember from your childhood?

For me, it would be the scooter I got - replacing the 15 year old hand-me-down. I can still picture it.. red with white chunky wheels and a little brake block at the back you could step on. I was convinced that Father Christmas must have bought it, as I didn't think my parents could afford it.

It was like this

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qowAA...J7I/s-l300.jpg

BristolUK Dec 22nd 2017 10:55 am
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 12404200)
What poncey southerners would call the leeownge.
My mum was a poncy southerner (that thing you could play music on was a Pee-ah-no) but she called it the front room or the living room. And sometimes the sitting room:lol:because we must have stood in the dining room.

BristolUK Dec 22nd 2017 11:06 am
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12404258)
...For me, it would be the scooter I got - replacing the 15 year old hand-me-down. I can still picture it.. red with white chunky wheels and a little brake block at the back you could step on. ...
I had one!!!!
I remember the wheels being chunkier but that might just be because I was a nipper at the time.

Did your footplate come off? Mine did and there were two little bits of metal across the bar that it was fixed to. I still scooted on it but occasionally my foot slid off the bar and got caught by the metal edge. :eek:

Those things were so sturdy I used to scoot down the street and jump off and watch it go on its own with no damage. :rofl:
(except maybe the footplate breaking off :o)

bats Dec 22nd 2017 12:02 pm
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12404271)
My mum was a poncy southerner (that thing you could play music on was a Pee-ah-no) but she called it the front room or the living room. And sometimes the sitting room:lol:because we must have stood in the dining room.
Yep, the front room is the living room. I did know people who had drawing rooms, and some had lounges - and some the aforementioned leeownges.

Siouxie Dec 22nd 2017 1:07 pm
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12404276)
I had one!!!!
I remember the wheels being chunkier but that might just be because I was a nipper at the time.

Did your footplate come off? Mine did and there were two little bits of metal across the bar that it was fixed to. I still scooted on it but occasionally my foot slid off the bar and got caught by the metal edge. :eek:

Those things were so sturdy I used to scoot down the street and jump off and watch it go on its own with no damage. :rofl:
(except maybe the footplate breaking off :o)
Yup, I remember the wheels being chunkier too - like a wide wall white tire.. but I couldn't find a picture of the exact one - this was the closest to it.

My footplate didn't come off, but then I was a delicate little imp (so the school nurse told me) being tiny and not very weighty, lol.

:)

scrubbedexpat091 Dec 22nd 2017 2:48 pm
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
I'll be spending Christmas at the airport so all those folks who want to travel can do so.

I think we get holiday pay though.

Shirtback Dec 22nd 2017 8:19 pm
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12404258)
What's the one present that you got for Christmas that you remember from your childhood?

For me, it would be the scooter I got - replacing the 15 year old hand-me-down. I can still picture it.. red with white chunky wheels and a little brake block at the back you could step on. I was convinced that Father Christmas must have bought it, as I didn't think my parents could afford it.

It was like this

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qowAA...J7I/s-l300.jpg
I had one of those scooters too :).

The Christmas presents I remember most (and still have!): The Chronicles of Narnia (1973) and The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England (1975).


Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12404328)
I'll be spending Christmas at the airport so all those folks who want to travel can do so.

I think we get holiday pay though.
I’ll raise a glass to you and your colleagues. I worked Christmas for many years, glad I don’t anymore but it was usually quite jolly (good for tips and presents too ;) )

mikelincs Dec 22nd 2017 10:23 pm
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by Shirtback (Post 12404401)

I’ll raise a glass to you and your colleagues. I worked Christmas for many years, glad I don’t anymore but it was usually quite jolly (good for tips and presents too ;) )
Where I worked in the NHS we were out of site of patients, so got no tips. Some of the doctors would give us gifts, mainly either bottles of cheap sherry of cigarettes, this practice was stopped. One year I had cause to visit the maternity ward to take blood from a new born, and the sister in charge of the ward did give me a bottle of stout, they gave them routinely to help new mothers to produce milk, luckily it didn't work for me.

Shirtback Dec 22nd 2017 10:50 pm
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by mikelincs (Post 12404433)
Where I worked in the NHS we were out of site of patients, so got no tips. Some of the doctors would give us gifts, mainly either bottles of cheap sherry of cigarettes, this practice was stopped. One year I had cause to visit the maternity ward to take blood from a new born, and the sister in charge of the ward did give me a bottle of stout, they gave them routinely to help new mothers to produce milk, luckily it didn't work for me.
What killjoys ;).

I recall the days of glasses of stout for breastfeeding mothers in NHS hospitals. Also the smoking rooms for patients...

scrubbedexpat142 Dec 22nd 2017 11:25 pm
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 12404200)
In our house he left them in the front room. Aka the best end, the front parlour. What poncey southerners would call the leeownge.
Er, do you mind! Drawing Room, if you please!

scrubbedexpat142 Dec 22nd 2017 11:29 pm
Re: Time for a Christmas thread?
 
Also the smoking rooms for patients...
Stopped us dying from the shock of withdrawal! :lol:


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