Quiet here tonight,
Not a soul was online, just a single Admin (they don't count as a person) almost as if everyone has better things to do on the lead up to the festive season? Nah, can't be.
What are your plan for the holidays? Feel like sharing what you'll be doing over the break?
Nothing changes for me, same shit different day. I'll be working even though it's only a few days a week, weekends feature in these days.
Hoping to get away shooting at the end of December, early January.
We're heading to Kaikoura as usual, we have a 5th wheeler there & a couple of quad bikes (Yam 700 & Yam 400) We tow a boat up each time & fish for Blue Cod & Crayfish (with pots). We're not allowed to gather Paua (Abalone) since the earthquake, gotta give the remaining stocks a chance to recover.
We have kids & grandkids come & stay with us over the break, sometimes we have 23 there, we've got 11 grandkids, it's all about the grandkids, creating memories for them. I reckon, if later in life, they can recall good memories at Grandmas' & Grandads' camp, going fishing with him and all the camping stuff, that's the best you can hope for as a life legacy.
The wife and I were going to take the boat out, but I must be getting soft as it's too hot at the moment.
Was thinking of doing some surf fishing though we'll probably wait until all the tourists leave in the new year as they are everywhere.
You want to see how they crowd in, tents and vans along the beachfront.
Buggered if I know how you can call that a holiday shoulder to shoulder with screaming kids, load music, drunken revellers and all the other wonderful things.
Xmas Day i enjoy. Its my day to settle back, eat, drink, swim. Love the kids opening presents. I keep a low profile, no hassles or arguing. Whatever they decide to talk about, sit and listen usually. Im a tugboat in pool, stuffed by days end. Prawns n beer, often their crap music, sometimes even hear something i like. A day i like. The rest of Xmas season is just a terrible time.
Looking forward to having my son, daughter and the grandies over for Xmas all being well l'll get dad and he can join us to. Boss lady has her brother and his mum attending also.
No Boxing Day Street Races this year.
Christmas is just another day for me but as usual I will try to get out on the bike and have a decent ride out if it's dry.
I will enjoy free time working on my friend's 1979 gs850g :smile2:
All round to my aunties on Christmas Day, as she's a cook we sit down to a 3meat dinner, roast turkey,roast beef and a cold ham , roast tatties,Yorkshire puddings all your veggies, glorious gravy and her husband being Irish supplies the Guinness,there's gonna be about 20 of us this year so lots of noise,especially the kids and there electronic toys. :cheers:
Ive wanted just the good lady and myself for one year as is usually a 8 on Christmas and same on Boxing Day - so the pandemic has actually done me a favour this year. - will still do traditional day meal with all the trimmings but without all the stress
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Not big into Christmas, and it's not a good time for my missus for... reasons.
I was hoping to avoid my family as there's always WAY too much drama but seems I've somehow been roped into it.
I have to work up til Christmas and everyone else in my family is either retired or (in my sisters case) unemployed. So they have forgotten what its like to work and have to fit life in around that. We'd just rather do outr own thing.
Anyway... yeah looks like a drive to the sunny coast, a drama filled 'drunk uncle' day, no drinking for me and drive back home.
I really hope it's not raining because I'd much rather ride - that way I don't have as much hassle with the traffic.
Sounds like a ball of fun Mike! Not.
Due to bad planning & poor negotiation on my part I appear to be visiting family for a few days. I normally avoid it like the plague as I utterly hate xmas & my so called sister will be there. I've not spoken to it since I was 14 & I've never spoken to it's offspring, that won't change either.
I'd rather sit at home & do a bit on my Bonnie.
Our kids flew the nest years ago, and unlike every Christmas past, we`re not gonna be able to have a get together on the day, so we`re on our own. Boxing day we have the outlaws over. With having plenty to eat and drink, it could be a whole lot worse.
As our New Year celebration plans were binned weeks ago, i`m kinda looking forward to `beyond boxing day` when I can, at last, begin a total bathroom refit :bugga:!
Up until yesterday we were to have Christmas dinner with our daughter and her wife - new Covid rules in Wales mean mrs Notty and me will now be on our own - omg I will have to talk to her all day :bugga:
Picked up the 3 GKs yesterday - daughter husband abandoned them so not much fun here - Trying to provide a good Xmas to the family but hard work for the Mrs. with a 1,3,7 year old and WE are 70 - never figured I be doing this going into retirement. Last day at work 31 December then looking to move out of the big smoke and find some tranquility in a different neck of the woods messing around with my bikes and cars. As Roger Daltrey said "21 is going to be a good year".
Wherever you are have a gud'un!
Quote from: Notty on Thursday, 17 December 2020, 11:50 PM
Up until yesterday we were to have Christmas dinner with our daughter and her wife - new Covid rules in Wales mean mrs Notty and me will now be on our own - omg I will have to talk to her all day :bugga:
That'll get back you know
@Knotty :stir: :stir: :stir: :stir:
Global, feel for you. Totally wrong to have to do but no choice. My neighbours exact same. Both about to retire. Now have 3 kids in their care, parents druggos. Late 70s for them when last finishes school. Unreal people, didnt deserve that coin toss. Makes me so mad.
Fortunately we have free movement around Brisbane so I'll be ferrying my folks around to Christmas lunch with my partner Bobbie and her extended family. Prawns, Moreton Bay Bugs, Oysters and cold meats. Loads of dessert and a sleep to round of the afternoon. :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :boogie:
I'm scooting from Wales over to Bristol today to drop some socially distanced pressies into my kids and the Grand children. Then, as my Dad is nearly 91 and it's sadly likely to be his last Christmas, I'm picking him up and he's coming home with me to stay for a few days. He's been housebound now since March and apart from various health workers visiting him due to his age and my visits to deliver food etc he doesn't see anyone. Rightly or wrongly, I don't want him being alone over Christmas.
Christmas day will just be me, Mrs F, my Dad and her Dad for the traditional Christmas dinner and then probably fall asleep on the sofa watching some repeated crap on TV.
Enjoy whatever you're doing and make the most of it.