Thinking about @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's reasons to hate Xmas piece and I think the reason I have grown to dislike it is partly that I loved it so much as a kid - the presents, going through the Radio times, the food, the holidays....
..and now I just don't care about it and that's sad.
..and now I just don't care about it and that's sad.
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last year was xmas (film) characters
being in Italy helps too
Hey whatever happens and how ever you do it have a lovely one. Hugs to you all Hugh
Didn't like having to negotiate only one programme at a time - Mike Yarwood clashing with James Bond - but looking back does feel somehow charming
Always loved Christmas, but after having kids I decided we would always have it at home for them to enjoy - 16 years of doing all the cooking and shopping and thinking has very much rubbed the shine off.
I loved Xmas as a kid. Then as a young adult really stopped liking it very much at all. That was sad.
Have to say, that having children myself and mixing with other friends who are parents and forming new traditions with them brings a lot of the fun back.
I'll start. The ones you never see there the other 51 weeks and who take ages to decide whether to have a half of whatever and have to back to check with the partner to see if they want a sauvignon or a chardonnay.
Erecting the tree
Carols round the tree
Live nativity (pre lockdown)
Pre lunch at the pub
Board games with adopted family
Tis what you make of it
(Commercialism and TV - not so much)
I have distilled down for myself that what I loved about it as a child was, simply, love.
Now I say no to any faux jollification, gifts, fripperies. Instead I focus this time of year on spending time with those I care about. No adornments, just being with people.
But, since @susanrwright.bsky.social is now a priest in the Church of England, I appreciate how it falls into the pattern of the liturgical year.
Capitalism overload! 😱
Was just thinking out loud!
Is this year Disney?
Late Jan is a terrible time which requires a festivity, chinese new year is well timed too but I can't claim any chinese ancestry or particular reason to celebrate this other than ITS DARK AND I'M SAD
Mind you, that was only two, then three, then four channels.
We still found something to argue over!
In between being a child and having children, and between having children and having grandchildren you can always drink.
But I think it is a time when it highlights fractures in families, so there have definitely been difficult ones over the years
Then I blew my marriage of 22 years up at midnight 25/12.
Nearly the final nail in the coffin of Xmas
Best Xmas: moved house a few weeks before. 1st child forecast birth 1/1 - no decs, no people. Xmas lunch cheese sandwiche. No butter, no pickle - just cheese/bread.
Some sort of mirror perhaps.
and anyway, your job is proper, certainly helps me to develop the necessary understanding of systems to do mine better, just involves less glitter I suspect.
I am by nature quite introverted and the societal pressure to conform to what appears to me to be little more than a pandemic of mass hysteria for several weeks of the year is, to say the least, intensely stress-inducing.
Wake me up on Jan 2nd when the relief will be tangible.
…but my kids, who get a British Christmas, absolutely love it and that’s how any waning of my own is thwarted.
https://youtu.be/SHNpS-pnH-M?si=6OsK8GwjOVN9MkNc
She looked at me like I’m mad.
It was a huge part of the excitement!
And the agony of decision in the days when there was no on demand TV. You had to carefully arrange everything to get the best programmes in!
(Paging @niallmgray.bsky.social on this too)