r.i.p. Christmas cards?

[BufferParticipant @buffer]

So did you have Christmase dinner at the pub on Christmas day?

[John Doe 2Participant @johndoe2]

No, just a very pleasant couple of hours before Christmas lunch/dinner at home.

[BufferParticipant @buffer]

So a bit like a passenger going abroad then I suppose you could have gone the day before or after but didn't.

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

Posted by duncan webster on 18/07/2023 00:59:56:

Anyone who mentions Christmas before the start of advent should be soundly thrashed.

"… and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"

[derek hall 1Participant @derekhall1]

Mentioning the "C" word in July!

There should be law against it ….

[John Doe 2Participant @johndoe2]

It's interesting the reaction one gets when talking about flying on Christmas day. Many people seem to view doing so as a basic human right ! Whereas, for example, the building industry shuts down for about three weeks over the Christmas period.

Flying on Christmas day means that thousands of airport workers have to get up early and go to work – baggage handlers, security staff, fuelers, ramp workers, handling agents, check-in desk operators, terminal staff, firemen, cleaners, runway inspectors, bird scarers, air traffic controllers, aircrews, car park staff, maintenance staff……..the list goes on.

One of our cabin managers told us of her 9 year old son bursting into tears when he saw her in her uniform in the early hours, because he realised that yet again, Mummy would not be at home on Christmas day……..

The traditional English pub doesn't have to open on Christmas day, and had that pub been closed, we would have gone elsewhere, or indeed have stayed cosy at home by the fire.

 

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Edited By John Doe 2 on 19/07/2023 10:40:41

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

My Christmas dinner is usually sausage, egg and chips, and has been for at least 40 years.

Roy

[Bob Unitt 1Participant @bobunitt1]

Posted by roy entwistle on 19/07/2023 11:01:43:

My Christmas dinner is usually sausage, egg and chips, and has been for at least 40 years.

Roy

Delicious !

[JAParticipant @ja]

I had a four hour long Christmas once, flying between Los Angeles and Aukland. Not much to say except I did not think much of United Airways staff.

At 19 I had Christmas in hospital recovering from a nasty complex appendix removal. As many will remember they were pretty brutal places with large wards. The ward I was in had about 40 beds and as you got better you were moved further away from the nurses' office. The dead were wheeled out every morning. Just before Christmas, and after various choirs had sung to us, a lot of patients disappeared just leaving about ten of us for the day.

Some recent Christmases I have been alone which is great since I don't have to be polite to nasty family members.

JA

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