100 Days To Christmas

[MikeyBikey]

The year just seems to have disappeared in my unrelenting round of appointments. And. to my surprise, I was reminded it is only 100 days to Christmas. Before than I have seven birthdays needing cards.

Christmas will be home alone for the fourth year. The card list is also quite short as so many people have walked away since my amputation. It's not that I have really changed but a combination of people not coping with illness/dyability and for others beong too much bother. Oh well, not true friends then!

 

[stephenS50]

100 days to Christmas?..I better start thinking about what I'm going for my brother & sister...they are so difficult to buy anything for....or I might do what I did last Xmas and give them £100 to spend as their Xmas present.

 

[Leadinglights]

100 days to Christmas?..I better start thinking about what I'm going for my brother & sister...they are so difficult to buy anything for....or I might do what I did last Xmas and give them £100 to spend as their Xmas present.

We have said for a few years we wouldn't do presents for the adults but guess what had happened, every time/ we all get something for the adults anyway. I was really touched last year when my eldest grandson who had just started earning bought really thoughtful presents for everyone.

 

[Martin.A]

We do a family Secret Santa, with a maximum spend per person, using the drawnames Secret Santa App.

 

[Dishevelled]

We do a family Secret Santa, with a maximum spend per person, using the drawnames Secret Santa App.

We use that too. We get a secret Santa present, a charity shop present and some sort of game each. The kids then get money towards whatever they actually want.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

it’ll be here before we know it!

 

[Martin.A]

it’ll be here before we know it!

My wife has already received a Xmas Catalogue from The Cinnamon Trust, where she's a volunteer dog walker for people who are unable to walk their dogs themselves. Next up the DUK Xmas Raffle dropping through our letterboxes?

 

[AndBreathe]

The recent Balance magazine had a catalogue in, which included cards.

< shudder >

I have a list of things I want to make to gift this year, so I'd best get cracking......................... soon.

 

[Chris Hobson]

Will you be getting a prosthetic MB? Nowadays the things seem to be really high tech and have a really quite cool sci-fi vibe, like being a cyborg. I have a titanium dental implant but that doesn't really have the same cred.

 

[nonethewiser]

We were in local garden centre earlier where they are busy altering store to put out Christmas stock, Home Bargains had it out 4 weeks ago.

Before we know it it will be here, we like to do tours of Christmas markets in December, never buy ajything as they are so expensive but nice to soak up atmosphere.

 

[Satan’s little helper]

I always look forward to coutersigning myriad of cards before the last post? Almost as much as I like to fill out a DIAB1 form which happens around the same time, every 3 years. Our local garden centre put on a winter wonderland display of animated polar bears 15 years ago making lewd or obscene gestures. There was also a battery powered singing mouse with dodgy diction singing something "sailor lyrics" to the tune of jingle bells? It made the Are you being served Christmas special look tame.

 

[Sally71]

It was my birthday last weekend, I usually find once that’s out of the way Christmas comes far too quickly. Have a couple of family birthdays in October and then that’s it. I refuse to even think about cards or Christmas shopping until at least the end of November, but then have to be very careful that I don’t end up in a panic at the last minute! Do enjoy the Christmas chocolate though, some of that has already fallen into my trolley when I’ve been in Tesco the last couple of weeks… 🙄

 

[gail2]

i dont really do xmas As for cards my family and friends know that instead of sending them out , For each card I get I make a donation to a charity instead. This year its the East Angian Air Abulance . Xmas is a time for memorys of those who have gone for me

 

[martindt1606]

Ocado booked for the 22nd. Just need to save up now for the minimum £90 order......

 

[CliffH]

My wife has already received a Xmas Catalogue from The Cinnamon Trust, where she's a volunteer dog walker for people who are unable to walk their dogs themselves. Next up the DUK Xmas Raffle dropping through our letterboxes?

 

[CliffH]

it’ll be here before we know it!

 

[Martin.A]

In Matalan a couple of days ago. They have Xmas stuff on sale, and today WHS have Advent Calendars out.

 

[CliffH]

In Matalan a couple of days ago. They have Xmas stuff on sale, and today WHS have Advent Calendars out.

My partner and I have two different Advent calendars each year: not the rubbishy modern ones with year-old chocolates in them - but proper 'old-fashioned' ones with a picture behind each door . We have two so that, each day, each of us can try guessing what the picture is.

 

[MikeyBikey]

Ocado booked for the 22nd. Just need to save up now for the minimum £90 order......

I have also just booked for the 22nd. Went for Sunday as last year I got a Foot Clinic appointment (yes, it has dragged on for over a year! ) at last moment. They kindly let me cancel the order as I had proof but it was a lean event! Tricky making up the minimum order for one. For a family one turkey nearly gets there. Terrifying price increases!

 

[SimonP]

My youngest is already playing Xmas tunes in the car on the way to school (and even if I take the CD out once I've dropped her off it's always back and playing the next morning by the time I get into the car after locking the house!)