Gawd, I am so smug ... can I go first?

I've made the cakes and the mince pies. I've made lunch for Boxing Day. Bought and wrapped most of the presents. Written the cards. Even got the tablecloths out ready to iron.

Tree coming this weekend from a local farm.

I am ready (ish)

Doncha just hate MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

None of the above yet. Bits and bobs for the freezer but wondering wether to bother with a tree this year. Bit short on space and where to put one.

Done it all and now looking forward to Boxing Day, Football, and Kauto Star.

Bought cards today & sent a parcel oop north!
Am down to the family home 22nd & cooking a Turkey dinner for all and back here for Christmas eve...am on my own from then on...so have no decs up & will be eating a frozen meal!

 Sorry to hear that slim. You must come on here to read all our nonsense to remind yourself that people are actually a right pain in the arse  

presents all bought and wrapped.......(some since october!).......cards that have to be posted have gone...cards that i hand out to rellys etc written and just got to be given out.....turkey and other bits in freezer....

tree and decs up since end of november.....

did buy loads of bud cos it was on offer in sainsbury's......but i seem to be minus alot of bottles already........

nought wrong with a frozen meal ... but Christmas decs are about memories ... so get yourself down to the german market and buy something that will remind you of the first Christmas of the rest of you life

Cards written but not sent yet
Tree is up
some presents got just waiting for other's to arrive
bought some wrapping paper today
will do food shopping nearer the time

I should point out that we send cards, and any cards received are blue tacked up. No dex. Presents are a negotiated value set-up. Christmas dinner is outsourced. Anything else is a waste of hard earned cash. Boxing Day is where it's at!

 I remember last year Prom..I was banned from here just before Christmas, but Lori allowed me on for Christmas day! 
I might go into work if they call Rapid Response, that will definitely help me appreciate my peace & quiet 

 I will have my cards up on the window sill Rexi! 
Am sure I will be on the webcam to the family too 

Tree is up.
Some of the decs are up
Turkey is ordered.
Loads of pressies to buy
no cards written yet.
So just about where I should be for the time of year. 

I'm nearly ready to start worrying about not doing anything about anything. 

Have you nicked the lyrics from that song my Uncle Noddy sent you, years ago? 

Oh dear . Some cards have been bought but not written yet. Only bought about three presents - decs still in the loft will probably go up around 17th or 18th ...........a few bits in the freezer and that's about it. 

Still plenty of time

I can't imagine you being banned. What did you do? 

He's not getting his money back if that's what you're after 

Tree's up but I can't stop tweaking at it. I keep doing that poncy wannabe art critic thing of looking at it, changing summat, standing back, stroking chin, changing again...this even interrupted Corrie earlier

Decs are up (although I don't do tinsel, just little Christmassy things around the house) and I don't really bother with cards (only for my mum and my boy). Son's main present bought today - every year it gets more and more bleedin expensive

Dinner will probably be at mine this year so me and mother will be doing the cooking (well, I'll help where I can but I'll probably be told to sod off out of the kitchen when I start shouting at the veg), although I am buying a stuffed boneless turkey joint and cheating cos I can't be doing that chopping it up and stuffing the bird business (M&S usually do a divine lattice topped one that you just bung in the oven and it is trés lurrsh)

I'm looking forward to the pigs in blankets. And even better that I won't be waking up with one on Christmas morning

Oh god i am so with you on that one

Renton & I were comparing good looking women....mine happened to have extremely pert and very naked breasts which upset our American hosts somewhat 
I forget myself sometimes 

My pig always kicks his blanket off. 

I am quite good at upsetting Americans. Not deliberately of course. I was in Orlando on a business trip and got absolutely blasted and back at the hotel some PR woman joined me in the karoake bar where we did You're The One That I Want but we were so pissed we got mixed up and I sang the pink bits and she sang the blue bits. The looks we got, I felt like I had to explain we weren't going to eat their firstborn. (not that we could speak at the time) 

I did that with my mate's husband at our children's school disco.Neither of us were drunk just having a laugh.
His son and my daughter were horrified - we did the whole thing - it was so funny

 Would love to have seen that...
It does baffle me sometimes, the priorities of right from wrong that some folk have!

It's amazing how people get so worked up about what they think isn't 'correct and proper'. Fine lot of good it will do them if we all get nuked tomorrow 

To be fair, they were only 10.
We probably scarred them for life...

Some people are so serious about things that are meant to be fun. Some guy got up after us and sung a Rick Astley song and got huge applause. We found out from the barman that he does that every night. Goes to a f*cking hotel bar karaoke to sing Rick Astley and was some kind of local 'star' because of it.

I fail to see how us flailing about incoherently singing all the wrong lines was less entertaining

They obviously had no damn taste 
or could be the 'Rick Wannabe' had other assets you weren't made aware of....like a massive shooter  

I would have happily shot the annoying twonk if murder wasn't against the law. I hate laws 

Bit of a Smithy are you !
Could you not have claimed self defence....that works in the US doesn't it! 

 Oh! is that daylight...time for bed methinks!
Night Prom!

No, what would have worked would have been my ears were damaged on the premises by his constant monotonaul wailing and I could have sued the hotel. I wish I'd thought of that at the time. You can sue for anything over there. I sometimes wonder if it's worth going back just to work as a full-time suer of various establishments 

Night night slim this place always turns into the Waltons eventually 

I did my cards about 3 weeks ago Tree has been up over a week Ive made the christmas cake and am feeding it drambuie. Ive made mince pies, bought and wrapped most of my presents and posted the ones that need to go to Scotland, I reckon i will be completely done by the weekend. Ive written the list for the food that needs to be bought for the main event (which other half is cooking) so between now and then i will be just 'enjoying' the Christmas spirit. We have a list of places we want to go and christmassy things we want to do

I have written my cards but haven't sent them yet.
The tree and decs are going up at the weekend.
Some of the Christmas food is already in the freezer/cupboards. We'll still go out on the 22nd December and buy enough food to last a month.
I haven't bought many pressies yet but I have a very good excuse. I can't get out to the shops due to the Artic conditions we are having up here in Scotland.
I am determined to have everything done by 15th December.

Tree is up.
Not sending cards.
Presents remain in the most part unbought.
No turkey ordered, going out to eat.

No

No

No

Yes..!   Boned, stuffed and rolled and weighing in at approximately 22lbs.
Ordered my chipolatas and streaky too, and a large tub of goose fat for the roasties.

Cosi, you have the right idea my friend. At Christmas the most important thing is the grub