I am so with you, tenfoot.

My dad highway engineer by profession carpenter by birth , He spent most of his free time down the cellar making furniture/fitted units for our house . I got my own home made work bench one year a tool cupboard containing decent adult tools another . A cabinet of draws with a fold out 8 foot by 4 table for my train set was a highlight of one.

We will be recreating a family Xmas at my mum’s this year but the kids will be getting commercial toys not home made carpentry.

I miss when it started on christmas eve and finished the day after boxing day instead of this 2 month farce we now have.

That’s never happened.

I miss sneaking into my mum & dad’s bedroom to find the presents they had hidden in their wardrobe.

(Sorry mum for the time you came home to find me and my brother setting up the 29ft TCR set in your bedroom some weeks before Christmas Day).