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What is your Christmas Day minor inconvenience?
For us, it's the oven heating element knacking, leading to the tripping out of all the house electrics. When trying to start cooking the dinner.
Remember kids, its all relative...
I don’t like turkey..and everyone else does, so I am out voted!
Last night's kebab is repeating itself.
my boss turning up at work to wish us a merry Christmas
And Micro Sims has just pushed one out! No one else available to palm a nappy change onto!
Apparently someone's Alexa's broke so they are sitting in the dark in silence unable to turn the lights on
In a momentary lapse in hand-eye co-ordination yesterday my eye targeted the box of Coconut Lindor on the supermarket shelf (which are delicious and rarely in stock locally) but it turns out my hand picked up the Mint one instead. Harumph.
Staying in the garden summer house that I built years ago.
Went to the pub last night and went to sleep with a full bladder.
Got up at 3am to empty said bladder. Stood on the frozen decking having a piss and next thing I know the GF is panicking and asking what happened.... I was lying face down in a puddle of my own piss covered in mud.
Think I must have knocked myself out.
Have cracked my head, split my nose and cut my pinky finger.... much to everyone's amusement.
The maid hasn't replaced the soap in our bathroom.
Also lost a contact lense last night, it is somewhere on my bedroom floor or bed, so I have to tread very carefully until (or if) I find it.
Old gas boiler went down on Saturday morning.
So, no central heating and no hot water either.
House full of folks.
Borrowed some fan heaters and oil filled radiators and with a good gas fire in the lounge we seem to be ok for heating.
Booked a room at the local Travelodge and everybody went down there for a shower. (not as one group!).
Still turkey cooking and lunch about 2 o'clock.
Mum Sims have forgotten the pigs in blankets!
Alpin wins.
I just have the plague.
rear tyre is flat; has either
1. a knackered valve
2. a hole in it from yesterday's ride.
poobumwee
Nightshift last night and tonight for both of us.
A very quiet and dry Christmas.
There appears to be a seasoning shortage
Nice and quiet day for me.
Shoulder sore from the shingles.
Thought I might squeeze in a gentle ride if I dosed up on painkillers.
Tried, but gave up pretty quick.
No go yet.
Looks like may have underestimated the chipolatas. Again.
They didn’t have my favourite Tassimo pods in on the big Christmas shop, so I’ll have to make do with my second favourite
Christmas is ruined
...oh... hang on a minute... I’ve just realised I havent the remotest intention of drinking anything non-alcoholic for the next week
Christmas is saved. Hurray! 😀
First time using the induction hob, and all hells broken loose.
”read the manual, read the ****ing manual y’a moron!!”
🥴🃏🎭
I had a blinder this morning. Went for a walk with my dad, brother and son in Ashdown forest. Towards the end of the walk my dad got “caught short” and had to have a dump behind a tree. Classy...
@Alpin - same thing happened to me on New Year’s Day morning 2000. I fainted due to low blood sugar (after drinking on an empty stomach) and hit the bath on the way down breaking my nose, two black eyes, cut lip and concussion
My local was full of ****s wearing 'comedy' christmas sweaters. With all their friends visiting and expecting their free christmas drink for the entire party and looking very shocked when being charged for their drinks.
12 hour working day.
t'was the valve, you'll all be doubtless relived to hear.
Looking at Facebook and seeing one of my riding buddies has done a Hellvellyn double today, must admit he did ask me if I was coming but passed it up not even had Christmas Dinner yet arrghhhh!!!!
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The gift I bought my brother (spiffy automatic coffee maker) costs twice what he spent on his gift card for me.
Now I have to spend the rest of the day planning how to steal some coffee back from him to make things "even."
Eldest_oab, 30 mins before a double rate shift at the hotel he works at, just find out he forgot to wash his uniform...
Sorry guests for stinky service tonight...
Everything was going smoothly, dinner cooking nicely, etc. Until my BIN turned up, walked through the hall, up and down the carpeted lounge, through the kitchen and into our daughter's bedroom and then, and only then, realised he'd trod in an enormous dog poo and was walking it round the house.
Bleurg. 4 hours later the house still smells of crap!
Our pup has just thanked us for the tiny bit of turkey and sausage hidden in her food - by weeing on the lounge carpet and depositing three piles of sick on the carpet too.
Removing the end of my finger, whilst peeling celeriac 😒
Went to sisters for lunch, normally a quiet sedate affair, but they now have a mad dog that wouldn't stop jumping on me. Then the mad bad relatives turned up, and it was time for me to go.
‘Looking at Facebook and seeing one of my riding buddies has done a Hellvellyn double today, must admit he did ask me if I was coming but passed it up not even had Christmas Dinner yet arrghhhh!!!!
I was fine till I realized how flat my riding was.
Our pup has just thanked us for the tiny bit of turkey and sausage hidden in her food – by weeing on the lounge carpet and depositing three piles of sick on the carpet too.
And that’s why our mutt doesn’t get people food.
Think I must have knocked myself out.
You won't like this on Christmas Day but that really needs a visit to A&E. Sorry.
My phial of coronation oil is not as historic as Jacob Rees-Mogg’s.
But otherwise, all is good. My sympathies, alpin. That sounds, erm, uncomfortable.
Kryton jnr pressed the Up lever on the remote control whilst i was carrying his new drone cradling the central unit with one hand a finger inside each prop cage.
Kryton jnr pressed the Up lever on the remote control whilst i was carrying his new drone cradling the central unit with one hand a finger inside each prop cage.
Ouch 🤪 did you lose any skin/finger tips? I sport a couple of nice finger scars from a similar incident.
Did you leave dna at the scene?
5 stitches in finger due to being distracted whilst doing washing up. Two hours in and out at minor injuries unit which I felt was pretty fast especially comparing notes with three other "lacerations" in there as well.
Santa baby laid a cable under the tree for me.
Norovirus or just a generic vom/poo combo delight.
Upstairs sockets failed not too much to worry about.
Then discovered the garage was on the same circuit(?).
Panic as deep freeze and outside fridge full of Christmas stuff.
Traced it to the plug on the wine cooler. It still had that cardboard cover thing on it which had absorbed moisture and presumably tracking between pins.
Cleaned it all up removed cardboard all working again.
Mrs M thinks I am a genius and not an eejit for leaving it on the plug to start with.
Another washing up injury. At weekend - washing a china cup which has a 'chip' in the rim - slashed right into the base of my little finger. Deep wound, hasn't stopped weeping since - doing Xmas day washing up wasn't fun. Think it's getting infected though !
Been down and out with a rough cold of late, hopefully will feel ok to check into a three day golf/spa break today. Happy to get away from it all.
Christmas Eve....
Dishwasher failed irreparably 🙁
The car went sick last week, quick google said it was likely to be; expensive, ouch or eye watering. Fortunately it was merely expensive (turbo boost sensor).
I left the staff Xmas cake at one of the stations and had to drive back for it. Oh the shame!