Comrade

Take care of yourself

Know where you are coming from CO. .

still not long now til it's all over..  oh and all the New Year Malarkey too.. 

Comrade lovely to see you, Wishing you all the best for 2011, and truly hope it's a brilliant New Year for you 

It is nice to see you Comrade. I can empathise  with your incisive description.
Christmas for many is an extremely sad time. Nostalgia and reminiscence, and, as you rightly say, one's inner feelings are sometimes sharply contrasted with what is going on around you.
Warmest good wishes Comrade  

Mr. CO, know the feeling. Today seems to be the day for ghosts of Christmas past to want to get in touch. Wish they'd just sod off, some things are better left in the graves they were put in

Thank you everyone and sorry for those who feel the same.

If I'd seen this I wouldn't have posted mine sorry

Big s for all.

Heartfelt.

Oh Wurthers!!

Comrade

Hi Comrade.

Christmas can be the best time in the world but you are right, it can be the loneliest as well.What to do? There is no quick and easy answer. I think the run up is probably worse than the actual day - the TV and shops are full of the "ideal" happy family and friends stuff.
If it helps ( and I doubt that it will) Christmas, on the whole is fake. It is a time when people forget their problems, eat too much, drink too much, get into debt over buying presents that are out of their reach financially and( thanks to advertising) have expectations that can not often be realised and then rows ensue.

Believe me, it is easy to feel lonely, isolated and despairing in a house full of people ... 

So maybe a lot of us need this one day when we can pretend that everything is going to be alright, when we can stop the world for a little while and when ( for a few of us) we really can be with those we love best in the world.

But it is only a day... then it is gone.
Take care xxxxxxx

Worry not! Twill soon be January and a whole new year in which to take control. Was I the only one who became really annoyed whilst listening to Chris Evans

And his chef mate dispensing advice on turkey, goose, duck, three birds, fat, thaw etc? Not only to the thickoes buy these inappropriate and unappetising creatures but having bought 'em the don't know what to do with 'em. Salmonella and Clostridium all round!