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[HolyCount]

Well, once again, we did all of our Christmas shopping in a one day military planned operation, as well as me starting the day early shut in the kitchen baking my (what has become ) traditional zillions of Welsh Cakes. I inherited my Gran's bakestone (which weighs a ton!) so it has fallen to me to produce the goodies!  Unfortunatley I only get to eat a few as most go to family and friends ( even "export" a batch to France!).

So all I have to do now ( which I dislike more than shopping!) is to wrap everything ... put together His Lordship's bicycle and write cards (not too many of those, luckily, as we have an "understanding" that I would rather put a few quid to Macmillan than to Hallmark ).

Anyway .... how are you all doing 

[albitz]

Havent even started to think about it yet.

[TheBoy]

I really need to consider what to buy Mrs TB for her birthday, which was in November

[Debs.]

  It is not without some irony that I have decided to opt-out of it all and leave christmas to the non-Christians this year......it only seems to fulfill a social function at the most superficial level: consumption, self-indulgence, excess and at times, no-small measure of guilt and sadness.

I love my dear-friends and family and I enjoy them year-round; not just at this 'notional' celebration.

So, please don`t take offence: it`s not that I don`t care; actually, it`s because I do!

[HolyCount]

It is not without some irony that I have decided to opt-out of it all and leave christmas to the non-Christians this year......it only seems to fulfill a social function at the most superficial level: consumption, self-indulgence, excess and at times, no-small measure of guilt and sadness.

I love my dear-friends and family and I enjoy them year-round; not just at this 'notional' celebration.

So, please don`t take offence: it`s not that I don`t care; actually, it`s because I do!

Nope -- don't have any of that ... one bottle of wine, good roast for dinner on the day ... other than that, "business as usual". Apart form the bank hols, both me and the missus are in work ( the missus is doing New Years Day too). So, we indulge the various kids, and that's it.

[Dishevelled Den]

It is not without some irony that I have decided to opt-out of it all and leave christmas to the non-Christians this year......it only seems to fulfill a social function at the most superficial level: consumption, self-indulgence, excess and at times, no-small measure of guilt and sadness.

I love my dear-friends and family and I enjoy them year-round; not just at this 'notional' celebration.

So, please don`t take offence: it`s not that I don`t care; actually, it`s because I do!

You know? I get that. 8-)

[Richie London]

roll on january 

[Del Boy]

I haven't bought one present yet  :-/

[Dishevelled Den]

It is not without some irony that I have decided to opt-out of it all and leave christmas to the non-Christians this year......it only seems to fulfill a social function at the most superficial level: consumption, self-indulgence, excess and at times, no-small measure of guilt and sadness.

I love my dear-friends and family and I enjoy them year-round; not just at this 'notional' celebration.

So, please don`t take offence: it`s not that I don`t care; actually, it`s because I do!

You know? I get that. 8-)

Although I must say that I enjoy the notion as it gives me a feeling of temporary contentment when I muse of what it must be like to have friends and family gathered in enjoyment of mutual company.

(I have no 'friends' just colleagues and acquaintances and my only contact with my very small family circle is infrequent - I mind neither in the least.)

[HolyCount]

It is not without some irony that I have decided to opt-out of it all and leave christmas to the non-Christians this year......it only seems to fulfill a social function at the most superficial level: consumption, self-indulgence, excess and at times, no-small measure of guilt and sadness.

I love my dear-friends and family and I enjoy them year-round; not just at this 'notional' celebration.

So, please don`t take offence: it`s not that I don`t care; actually, it`s because I do!

You know? I get that. 8-)

Although I must say that I enjoy the notion as it gives me a feeling of temporary contentment when I muse of what it must be like to have friends and family gathered in enjoyment of mutual company.

(I have no 'friends' just colleagues and acquaintances and my only contact with my very small family circle is infrequent - I mind neither in the least.)

Zulu -- you have us   ( not sure if that's a good thing or bad     )

[redelitev6]

  No !

[Mysteryman]

We (the wife) have just put our decorations and tree up. Made me feel quite festive........for about five minutes.

[Dishevelled Den]

Zulu -- you have us   ( not sure if that's a good thing or bad     )

  That's very sweet of you to say K.

Having been a 'strange' child always content with my own company I've never considered the lack of what one could call friends as being a disadvantage.

The closest I've been is having had close professional colleagues (other officers I've partnered over the years) but I would never consider them to be friends in the conventional sense.

In all I'm quite happy and well adjusted with my situation but I do wonder from time to time what it would be like to have close friends with whom one could relax away from the professional environment.

[albitz]

It is not without some irony that I have decided to opt-out of it all and leave christmas to the non-Christians this year......it only seems to fulfill a social function at the most superficial level: consumption, self-indulgence, excess and at times, no-small measure of guilt and sadness.

I love my dear-friends and family and I enjoy them year-round; not just at this 'notional' celebration.

So, please don`t take offence: it`s not that I don`t care; actually, it`s because I do!

You know? I get that. 8-)

Although I must say that I enjoy the notion as it gives me a feeling of temporary contentment when I muse of what it must be like to have friends and family gathered in enjoyment of mutual company.

(I have no 'friends' just colleagues and acquaintances and my only contact with my very small family circle is infrequent - I mind neither in the least.)

You and me both Uncle Z. ............although I hope you dont include your nephew from the East in that remark.

[HolyCount]

Zulu -- you have us   ( not sure if that's a good thing or bad     )

  That's very sweet of you to say K.

Having been a 'strange' child always content with my own company I've never considered the lack of what one could call friends as being a disadvantage.

The closest I've been is having had close professional colleagues (other officers I've partnered over the years) but I would never consider them to be friends in the conventional sense.

In all I'm quite happy and well adjusted with my situation but I do wonder from time to time what it would be like to have close friends with whom one could relax away from the professional environment.

Zulu, I, too, was ( and am) content with my own company (looks like the littl'un is following my foortsteps there too). I have a few friends, although we rarely meet ( even being in the same town), but if any of them needed any help it is there, and vice- versa. Unfortunatley I also appeared to be popular and always seemed to attract a group of "followers" in whatever endeavour I was into at the time!

If I had lived a few hundred years ago (forgetting that the family, at that time, was somewhat "elevated" socially) I would have jumped at the chance of being a professional hermit.