Happy Christmas to all of my forum friends

We've been visited by waves of family for the past two weeks. Great to see them all, and at least they did the driving, not us - but we had to bring in the little 'real' potted Christmas tree that I've looked after lovingly for the past three years, earlier than I would have chosen. So today I took down all the baubles and lights and got it safely outside, where it can use the present spell of mild weather to re-acclimatise itself. Cards came down too, and house is now calm and peaceful again.
I like Christmas - especially when it's over!
 
Gosh Marigold, I only got my cards up yesterday but they'll stay up until twelfth night. No tree because the cat attacks it - or would if he were here; he's been missing for two weeks but I'm still hoping he'll turn up.
 
Oh dear, Margaid, I'm so sorry to hear that Mischief has gone missing. I hope you have some news about him soon. It must be very hard, just not knowing where he is.
 
Hallelujah. That's that for another year. Just need to get through the New Year sales adverts etc and then look forward to the holiday adverts - NOT. ?
 
That’s it Tweetypie. For me Christmas is represented by endless commercials for cologne for both sexes. Every advert is on the same naff theme just the product name changes. Call me old fashioned but soap and water seem adequate rather than this years creation of musk, bergamot and civet for £120 a bottle.
 
Oh that made me laugh. Bergamot. I've even seen the stuff in Mark's and Spencer's. Seems anything with bergamot has a minimum £50 price tag. The other one is OUD. Oud??? You mean wood, said I, to the toffee nosed assistant in House of Fraser.!! Plenty of that in the forest ??
 
Am I glad I don't have television :D I'm spared all this stuff. As I can get everything I want at the moment in the one-horse town where I live, apart from a bit of Christmas stuff (not much) in the supermarket I don't suffer the exposure. Two carol services in one day was pushing it a bit ...
 
Oh, but that's my idea of bliss! Being able to go to the crib service, then Midnight Mass, then to the service on Christmas morning! It's the only time I get to go to church more than once in 24 hours without my husband saying I'm "obsessed"!
 
I went to church for the service of 9 lessons and carols, and at OH's insistence I didn't sing the alternative words to Whilst Shepherds watched. Missed the crib service as I was working.
Bergamot, Ylang Ylang oil, whats wrong with good old fashioned creosote I say. with a touch of man glitter AKA sawdust to enhance the effect.
Lakeside still rammed with bargain hunters, plus the fun of the office bods completely forgetting all about the Amazon warehouse working all over the holiday period and suddenly trying to find drivers to run the special Amazon buses from 4am on Boxing day.
 
All I can remember is the bit about 'Almighty Fred.'

Does anyone know 'The tale of E***** N**'? Dad would refer to it but then always said it was too rude to repeat. All we managed to get out of him was:
'....As cold as a frog in an ice bound pool.
As cold as the end of an Eskimo's tool ....'

... Ah! Found it. Yep, that's rude alright! Even warrants a few asterisks in the title!!!
 
My dad always used to say, " it's as cold as Eskimo Nell" but that's all we ever got.
Don't know a rude version of Whilst Shepherds Watched that must have passed me by. I do remember "We Three Beatles from Liverpool are", and "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells" from my youth.
Anyway Happy New Year to one and all may it be happy and healthy for you all, and rodent and mite free.
 
When I was a child, back in the 1940s, we had a wind-up gramophone and several records, including Icicle Joe the Eskimo, a jolly little ditty which, although unexceptional at the time, would probably now be considered beyond the pale and racially offensive. Me and my beloved golliwog would dance around the living room and collapse on the sofa at the rousing climax;
'And he always says, whenever it snows, Jolly good luck to the Eskimos!'
https://youtu.be/OC5w73cHgXw
How times change - for the better, in some ways.

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Happy New Year, everyone!
I am unexpectedly off work today. I was due back, went in, but the client had got confused and thought I wasn't due until after New Year's Day, and wasn't home! So, my aim is to deChristmas my house (yes, I know, 12th Night etc., but I've always had it cleared, and cleaned the house for New Year's Day!).
 
Nice one LadyA.
For the first time ever I am not going up the Village Hall, getting riotously drunk, talking rubbish and kissing everyone at midnight. This year a roast beef dinner and a quiet night appeals more. Oh and a bottle of my favourite wine, D’Arenberg The Dead Arm.
My husband will be back in February. Best order another bottle!
 
OH took the Christmas decorations down today, as she dislikes them up in the New Year, like you Hen-Gen we had roast beef a joint from our neighbours Dexter. Spending a quiet evening with some cider and cheese and biscuits then it's early to bed,up at 3 30am to start work at 4.30. OH starts at 7am.
 
Happy New year everyone. Hope you've spent the evening the way you wanted.

Any new year's resolutions that anyone cares to admit to?
 
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