christmas memories.

[webbo3]

what christmas memories do you have from your childhood?

mine are.

1. going to the fruit market with my dad and buying the veg and a crate/box of satsumas
2. watching the great escape. (it was always on)
3. having a glass of advocat
4.the family comming round and playing cards on boxing day.
5 always having a terrys choc orange.
6.taking the dog for a walk on boxing day seeing the mendip hunt start.
7. having a big bowl of nut (brazils,hazels and walnuts) but never getting any nut just shell.

Dave.

[Captin Kirk]

having Ritz biscuits AND Chedders in the house
My nan eating figs
Either my brother or I getting the blame for breaking another of the baubles from the tree

[craft1948]

Snow and sledging......my dad roasting chestnuts on a shovel on the fire........my gran getting p!ssed and dancing with my uncles with one of her brothers playing the fiddle......being allowed to stop up late.

[webbo3]

oh yeah, captin kirk, i forgot about figs and dates.

Dave.

[Postdog]

Getting the beano and dandy annuals and reading them infront of a roaring fire

being allowed a glass of beer

[Barmaid]

Grandad standing for the National Anthem
Grandad getting pi$$ed on whisky
Grandad telling the same jokes, year on year on year
Grandad telling us war stories
Breaking my mum's leg when she came down the stairs to break up a fight.
Waiting for my brother to be born (he was due on 17th and rocked up on 28th)

[daffy654]

Ok folks,get the violins and hankies ready......................

My memories of childhood Christmas:
Being the only child left in the kids home because all the others went home for Christmas.
Waiting for my mum to turn up with Christmas pressies and being let down...again :-(
Not getting Christmas dinner because the kids home cook is off for the day.

[craft1948]

ferk me daffy.......you should have come round for some chestnuts.......we hadn't got much but we shared it.

[JMR27]

Leaving a carrot for the reindeer but my dad saying it would be better if I left a sherry for Santa....and the magic of Christmas Eve.
Getting a ticking off for fiddling with the wrapped presents.
A box of dates on the sideboard.
Watching people swimmimg in the sea on Boxing Day...brrrr

[JMR27]

oh daffy that's so sad

[daffy654]

That is why I am so protective of my own children now Craft,and why I have always made sure they have never wanted for love and attention,I have always tried to make their Christmases memorable for them too!

[webbo3]

aww daffy , what a sad story, my mum was in a childrens home and her stories were not nice either.

Dave.

[daffy654]

They weren't nice places Dave!
There is a children's author (Jaqueline Wilson) who writes a series of books about kids homes (Tracey Beaker) and it makes me so mad that she makes them seem like nice,happy places where everything always turns out ok.....utter tosh I tell ya!!!
They did make me the strong person I am now though so I do have that to be grateful for.lol

[Mamyalynne]

Oh Daffy that makes my heart ache ♥

my memories...wooden dolls...sleeping top to toe with lots of children in Grans bed after a hectic party....searching the house for hidden pressies....the dog knocking over the xmas tree...carol singers
who could sing and midnight mass.

[craft1948]

My family (well my grandma's) were Irish from the poorest part of York. There were 11 of us in a 3 bedroomed terraced house but we were never hungry and the kids (me and my sister) were always looked after. There was a local orphanage called Greycoats near us and all the street, which were in the same boat as us, tried to have a kid from the home for Xmas and Boxing Day. I never thought much about this until I grew up.

[Jan1957]

A few the same as others

Sleeping top to toe in bed with my 3 sisters
The family playing cards on boxing day
Searching for presents when Mum and Dad went out
A box of dates
Pantomime at the local theatre "He's behind you"
Dad cooking sausage rolls and mince pies
Playing Mousetrap

[ladybird49]

Bluddy ell youlot , youre NEARLY making me cry , thankfully my christmasses were great as a kid

[ladybird49]

Lol jan i slept with 2 of my sisters top to toe :)

[Captin Kirk]

"Breaking my mum's leg when she came down the stairs to break up a fight"

Note to self ... never mess with Barmaid!

[JB]

Waiting for the puppet show to start . My mum changed the curtains in the living room after I'd gone to bed on Christmas Eve, so I was a bit confused on Christmas Day - and refused all offers of presents until the curtains opened and the show began....which it didn't!
When I was older, the Christmas ritual was going to 'Billy's on Derby Lane' on Christmas Eve for all the fruit and veg. The queue was down the lane, and it always took at least two hours, but my mum and nan always insisted it was the best quality. Personally, I always felt guilty about 'Tom's' - he was the bloke who supplied us with fruit and veg the other 364 days of the year!