Anyone else NOT doing Christmas?

[Harry H]

I just don't like Christmas.
I have kids and have done my best over the years to big it up for them.
They are now 16,and I have had a dreadful year financially.So no i pads or Reeboks for them this year.It won't hurt them!

My Gran,who I lived with as a kid,died on Christmas Day 1982.
I can't help thinking about her on Christmas Day.

I don't begrudge others having a good time,but for me Christmas is hard work.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

bah! Christmas....humbug!!!
Hope you enjoy it but to me,just another day.....Lol!

 

[Quinney]

Won't be celebrating as working for the same rate of pay as every other day of the year, how shite is that.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

That is usual for most jobs whether paid or voluntary where other people are concerned. It is quite expensive to obtain, about £70 I think.

The statutory fee for an enhanced CRB check is £44, and it's £26 for a standard check. In addition, there is any fee that is charged by the organisation that arranges the check. This can be from £7 upwards, depending on who does it. It's usually a fairly quick job - but will take longer if you have moved around several addresses.

I guess the young Miss B's might have taken a longer than usual time, given the fact that she has spent some long-ish periods out of the country in the past couple of years.

 

[Muhammed - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

It's a no brainer really, in this country it's ALL about kids:

not when youre about to get a fuckin XBOX it aint



AND you're 52

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Hasn't hit me till now, seeing all the pictures on facebook from Australia... I miss Christmas

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

The statutory fee for an enhanced CRB check is £44, and it's £26 for a standard check. In addition, there is any fee that is charged by the organisation that arranges the check. This can be from £7 upwards, depending on who does it. It's usually a fairly quick job - but will take longer if you have moved around several addresses.

That's gone up a lot since i got mine done in 2007 think i paid about a tenner.

 

[wolfie]

I did a golf tour in France a few years ago and we played on Good Friday which was a normal working day there. I thought that was odd too as they are predomiantly Catholic

Think you will find that France is a secular state albeit with catholicism as the majority religion.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

not when youre about to get a fuckin XBOX it aint



AND you're 52

I stand corrected. Good point well made!

 

[Churchy]

Not doing to much out here in afgan, just a normal days work, but i do wish everyone a happy xmas and new year

 

[Nibble]

I usually look forward to Xmas but this year I am filming on boxing day so cannot get to family and my Mrs is spending a quiet Christmas and New Year with her brother as his wife sadly died 2 weeks ago so it is just gonna kind of pass me by this year, will whack the radio on, cook up a chili and take a seafront stroll later. Not even gonna be drinking as gotta be up at 4.30am tomorrow for a likely 16-18 hour day. So, a good day to my fellow Non-Christmasers!

 

[Return of the Rev]

same

can't wait to open my musalmic ray gun

BET MY SONIC REDUCER COST MORE
SHOULD HAVE SOME NICE PICS FROM BBQ WITH FALMER IN THE BACK GROUND!

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

No point In me celebrating to be honest. Not got my daughter with me to enjoy It and It's got no meaning apart from capitalism. So I'm not celebrating this year because I've got nothing to celebrate. Simples.

 

[NMH]

Not doing to much out here in afgan, just a normal days work, but i do wish everyone a happy xmas and new year

Good on you mate, I hope you have a safe and comfortable time out there then, celebrate when you can get to Falmer

 

[bhaexpress]

I'm keeping a low profile, having no kids means that Christmas isn't that important to me anyway. However I won't have to put up with silly squabbles over what to watch on TV, wait until mid-afternoon to eat lukewarm turkey and spend money on presents for people that they don't want anyway. I can eat when and what I like as well. Wonder if I'm the only person who won't be drinking alcohol over the holidays ? (I have been diagnosed with a couple of health problems which rather surprised me but my doctor is very vigilant).

Still, I hope everybody else has a nice day and I do sympathise with those out there who don't have anything to celebrate, it'll be over soon now anyway.

 

[Beach Hut]

No drinking, swearing or smoking for me...............








f***ing hell, I left my fags down the pub last night

 

[Leas]

As a Christian its Christmas every day

 

[Kent Seagull]

Some interesting points about the Christmas holiday here. quite surprising that many of the things we associate with Christmas have a pagan origin, the date for a start, then Xmas trees, holly, mistletoe are all things left over from pagan times.

Christmas, Yule and the Winter Solstice | Mysterious Britain & Ireland

 

[readingstockport]

Not xian and not pagan and no family living in this country so I don't celebrate the xian hijacking of the pagan festival. Just another day to me.

 

[luke17]

Can't stand Xmas day myself, had a nice lie in this morning now off to the pub for a couple of hours come home have dinner couple more drinks then i'll go to bed for several hours and wake up and watch whatever rubbish is on the box.