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And instead of boring dry turkey you've cooked a lovely turkey Biriani using the recipe your new best friend Mrs Singh shared with you.
Re perfume ads....totally agree, except now they're so bad they're good and I stop what I'm doing to watch them. If it was still video times I'd have a compilation. Favourite is the Marc Jacobs one set to a great Suicide song where the four models all then say Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy slightly out of time with each other and then giggle. WTF was the ad exec on that day?
WTF was the ad exec on that day?
£250K per year?
And instead of boring dry turkey you’ve cooked a lovely turkey Biriani using the recipe your new best friend Mrs Singh shared with you.
I was going to suggest something similar. I’m cooking Tandoori turkey tonight for some work mates, I’ll report back.
Alternatively you could try Jerky turkey, a recipe from your West Indian neighbor?
I don't know why, but I find something really sinister about that Marc Jacobs Daisy advert. Really freaks me out.
Daughter is home from university over Christmas, so I'm pleased about that. Have Brexity relatives to contend with, but not until Boxing Day.
if I was more savvy I'd just loop the end bit and have them saying Daisy Daisy Daisy for ages, that would be dead good.
I'd then send it to my friend, who's eldest daughter is called Daisy so he can have it as his ringtone and really piss her off.
Oh, and. I think this is a specific variant for Binners. Eau de Sausages
First day of my Christmas leave today and its pissing down, so no riding likely.
Forecast tomorrow is looking spot on, MrsMC has booked tickets for a family trip to the cinema at 12.30, could not have ****ed up my plans to go out for a long road ride any better if she'd tried!
MIL and partner were meant to be flying into Gatwick this evening from Belfast for 10 days with us over Christmas but have had to cancel due to bad fever. Gutted particularly for my partner and his mum who don't get to see much of each other and they are good fun. It would've been our 1st Christmas together in 3 years.
On the plus side I've only just got over being really ill for 10 days so takes the pressure off a little and means I don't have to give up my ensuite or listen to the other half snoring after too much food and booze. Also last night at the pub we ended up inviting a friend who was going to be alone on Christmas day (before the cancellation)so now they'll be plenty of food to go around.
Forecast tomorrow is looking spot on, MrsMC has booked tickets for a family trip to the cinema at 12.30, could not have **** up my plans to go out for a long road ride any better if she’d tried!
My FIL is in his late 70's, but a bloody lovely guy and very open minded and left thinking, mix him with another son in law, Latvian who says he's Russian not Latvian, proper backwards in views on race, sexism and all sorts, he's married to the sister with a trans son. Then the other sister is married to a trader who is I expect true blue but open to discussion. To be honest I think he'd vote for whoever makes him the most cash, big detached house, wine room etc etc, but we get on well. They make for a really interesting mix and I'm the centralist in comparisson to all the other views so as long as the 3 sisters manage not to fall out with each other (reversion to the teenage years when they all shared a bedroom in their ex-council house) we might just make it through.
Forecast tomorrow is looking spot on, MrsMC has booked tickets for a family trip to the cinema at 12.30, could not have **** up my plans to go out for a long road ride any better if she’d tried!
Tell us that your wife hates you at Xmas without telling us. 😀
Xmas itself is looking good. Sunny, temps in 20s, no visiting or weirdness, 9yo getting a new bike so there'll be fun to had there. All grand.
Then it's all going pear shaped, flying into MCR on 27th to visit family, using flights I booked pre covid and can't seem to get refunded. Costs more to stay in a small northern market town than in the centre of Bordeaux,
Tell us that your wife hates you at Xmas without telling us. 😀
Not sure it's just a Christmas thing...🤷♂️
The other gem was MrsMC had done the big pre-Christmas shop on Tuesday, so I only needed to pop up to the corner ship for milk today - cue my mother 80 year old mother phoning at 7.30 last night to see if I could pick up "a couple" of things I was heading to Aldi this morning....🤬
To be fair, Aldi was quieter than I expected
I’m working from now until the 27th. Would normally go to see my dad but a fairly major falling out a few months ago means that we haven’t spoken since, so the run up to New Year will be quiet, especially since I’m back to work on NYD.
Haha, after dodging it for three years I tested positive for Covid this morning (bought a test before visiting family over the weekend as I'd felt odd Thursday and Friday). Oh well, enough food to lash together for the next few days, gives me a good excuse to strip down the mtb on the patio. New Year, new bike.
Not looking forward to tomorrow. The good bit is I'm spending it with my parents. Th bad bit is so is my racist, bigoted, conspiracy-theorist, billy-no-mates, gammony, Farage/Trump/Tory supporting bore of an uncle. He genuinely has no real friends and no proper hobbies so all he talks about is politics and as a cherry on the top he refuses to acknowledge anyone else's opinion other than his own. A complete and utter moron of a man who has never fully grown up - lived with his mum all his life until she passed away a decade ago, never achieved anything of note but thinks he's a success as he has a few quid in savings (all stashed in cash round his council bungalow as he doesn't trust the banks) - and is slowly going blind. He has no empathy towards anyone or anything ( literally walked his last dog to death despite our protestations) so sucks the joy out of every situation he is involved in. The only reason he's allowed over is mum takes pity on him (her brother) and lets him come round as he'd have nowhere else to go. He will walk in, start talking (and not shut up until he leaves which will be when he chooses, not when it's a natural time or polite to!) and not help whatsoever, waiting for 'his' food to arrive, take his presents then continue talking again.
I hate the man but for the sake of my mum I'll put up with him for a few hours.
MrOvershoot
I will be with my late wife’s parents for Christmas. This is a good thing 🙂 They also said don’t feel the need to stay too long.
This is also a good thing as I love them dearly. But I have started a relationship with the most fascinating beautiful woman I could have ever hoped to meet!
There I’ve said it online and its not a moan 😀
I hate to be the bearer of more good news but its been a fantastic visit so far with everyone happy for me in my new relationship.
And that has just built & built. Is WhatsApp sex a thing? As so far my underwear is a mess 😮
Happy Christmas you miserable buggers 😀
I generally love Christmas these days however I'm currently being forced to watch that abomination of a second rate private school carol service that ITV are insisting on televising as the wife insisted on watching it rather than Carols at Kings because 'it's all been done by Kate, and she's lovely'
It's ****in' awful and has so far ruined just about every decent (and quite a few bad) Christmas songs while at the same time having ever iota of soul and feeling sucked out of it.
Keeping Up Appearances Christmas Special double bill. I’m going to iron some show tea towels.
Covid still a thing - yes eldest daughter tested positive yesterday back from darn sarf. thanks megabus / London.....Kind put a spanner in the works
Tesco wrapping paper.
hannah - don't forget to polish your toaster...
Rocked up in Pembrokeshire yesterday at a holiday cottage to find the MIL testing positive for covid after feeling ill for a few days and travelling all the way there with a lateral flow in her bag “just in case”. SIL and my wife insisted on staying and carrying on with the planned big family Xmas.
I opted out and drove 200 miles to my parents arriving at nearly midnight in Lancashire to hopefully have a chilled time with my family, and deal with the fall out next week.
Only reason I didn’t go straight home was a broken boiler so would have been home alone with no hot water or heating. Another bit of joy to sort next week.
Is WhatsApp sex a thing?
Don’t think the OP meant that kind of moan.
Starting this year I have promised myself not to engage with energy vampire(s), so I have cut off many people in my life, yes I did. That's the Xmas "gift" they get from me. LOL! Life is short.
Dinner with the in laws tomorrow. Get on great with them except they called tonight to say the beef is cooked already. So it’s massively over done cold beef tomorrow. Best go large with the roasties.
... except they called tonight to say the beef is cooked already. So it’s massively over done cold beef tomorrow.
LOL! Put it this way at least you get fed. I won't complain so long as others are cooking. LOL!
The only thing I’m appreciating about Christmas is having the whole month off, apart from three and a half days. Other than that, there’s nothing really to enjoy. At least I won’t be sat at home all day Christmas Day with a one person microwave meal, I’ll be driving down to Salisbury at lunchtime. 🙁
No close family and currently single, so will be spending the next few days volunteering at a project providing Christmas for people experiencing homelessness which, based on previous years, will be fun and will be a chance to catch up with some of the people I volunteered with distributing meals to the same group during the Covid pandemic.
After all my gloating the dog went for the mother-in-law, twice. She has then not slept through the night needed to pay at 3:45am and then needed to puke at 6:45. So I missed most of the meal last night dealing with her, have hardly slept and my wife wanted to stay for 2 more nights FFS!
I'm tempted to go home with the dog and come back and get her in a couple of days.
I always have a huge amount of sympathy and take a degree of comfort every year when this topic comes up . 1st 20 years of marriage working as a postie by the big day I was knackered and looked forward in vain to a quiet peaceful Xmas day . It never was , FIL insisted on taking over in the kitchen which led to hot and holy rows , every year I pleaded for it to be different but it seemed my voice wasn't heard . Even with the effect it had on Mrs OF she couldn't bring herself to say bugger off .
Then when our son turned 18 he discovered alcohol but not in a pleasant way to the point of violence and having to call the police. Then when he calmed down the normally placid BIL decided it was his turn. Unbeknown to us he was a regular drug user , when he kicked off it came to a head with him being sectioned .During all this I just wished I was a million miles away . In fact Xmas 2011 we did do that . Almost . We spent the Xmas in NZ the farthest we could go before we started coming back .Xmas day was a little hotel right on the beach hardly another soul around 😎 Our meal wasn't until the evening so I went into town found a garage open and bought 2 meat pies. Best Xmas dinner ever 😎
So yep I have every sympathy for people when the day is built up to such high expectations which rarely come to fruition. This year we both tested positive for COVID last week so it's Darby and Joan today with video calls which is fine by us for now .
So try and have a good day one and all but just try and stay calm it's only one day ♥️
Bloody hankies off the MiL!
Don't get me wrong I'm a big hanky user with various nasal issues, but as such I have standards! These are pretty patterns but practically see-through. I'll give them a wash and see what they're like, but I'm expecting bloody useless.
I was looking forward to my usual, predictable, and welcome Wiggle voucher 😂😭
The irony is I'm feeling ****ing awful with sinusitis and back in bed 😂
The Royal family is the best industry the UK has according to MIL...I just laughed and walked off...
SIL leaves back door open when she goes out for a fag, come back in finally shuts the door then complains the house is cold!!!
AA,you could point out that it's pretty useless as they practice tax avoidance.
AA,you could point out that it’s pretty useless as they practice tax avoidance.
As do plenty of other corporations funded by the publics money.
Just me and mrs100th. It'll be quiet as she's in work tomorrow and that'll be busy. It's a no present Christmas, money to charities. Only a couple of minor moans. It's a full Christmas dinner with a 12lb turkey, which seems excessive.
She's taken a few days off so we can spend time together, oh and her step siblings are coming for a few days, festive 500 shot then.
And why, as your only gift, would you think I want a framed photograph of your children?
a_a we've an open door smoker too, when she's had a few (I think she starts the day half ranked) she just flicks the fag butts around so days of finding dog ends and apologising to our neighbours.
..... and Christmas Day blown apart by my mother who's been feeling rough for a few days and has now set me the task of tracking down a prescription for antibiotics.
Mil & sil down, one does everything with the volume set to 11 and the other an open door smoker (she now puts the butts down the drain rather than flick into the garden, an improvement I guess).
It'll be ok so long as the wife dials down the enforced jollity, everyone is not right with that long lasting bug going around so tempers are a lot shorter.
We have an open door smoker also.
Moaned the house and the radiators were cold when they came back in.
"Yes they go off* when the door is left open - its an anti global warming feature"
seems to have cured that.
*Technically not a lie.
Last Christmas was a write-off as wife and no. 2 spawn came down with the ‘Rona the week before Christmas (I’d spent Christmas Eve in the Zona Corona at work, albeit in full noddy suit, goggles and FFP3…). So we are eating the beef that’s been in the freezer for 12 months.
Year before wasn’t great as MiL had newly diagnosed terminal Ca.
This year seems to be going OK aside from no. 1 having a bit of a moan as she doesn’t think she got enough presents 🙄 and I’ll be able to retreat to the kitchen soon and get on with cooking.
I can't walk at the moment 'cos of a ****ed up knee, so the wife took the dog out and left me in charge of lunch. I've got everything sorted to be ready in about 10 mins from now, and she's now come back and has totally taken over but will 'need a shower' before she can sit down for dinner. I've been made to feel like a total incompetent, won't even let me in the kitchen because she's huffing and fluffing around. Still, nose off to spite face, yorkshires aren't done yet so they'll be ready about 15 mins after everything else. I could point this out but I'm being told to stay out of the way.....
^^^ sounds like an excuse to relax and watch some crap on the telly.
We're off to the local for our dinner in about 4 minutes. It's been a really chilled day. Walked the dogs, mushrooms on toast for breakfast, and a couple of glasses of prosecco so far.
Hope you all have a good days as you can.
Merry Christmas!
First cold I’ve had in three years…but
Went to the beach to walk the dog and then popped into to see a 90-year old woman who lives on her own in a remote cottage - feeling very virtuous.
Having moved 500 miles north, no longer having to worry about Christmas Day ruined by my Brexity SIL.
Round at the unlawfuls.. just wandered into the kitchen to check what delights we are having. It's a boiled dinner!
Boiled swede
Boiled parsnip
Boiled cauliflower
Boiled potatoes
Boiled carrots
Boiled broccoli
Luckily the turkey wouldn't fit in a pan so is in the oven. The highlight of culinary expertise and a special recipe is black pepper in the stuffing!
To make matters worse I'm driving so Mrs cloudnine can have a glass of boiled wine.