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Post by dohnut on Nov 15, 2024 14:29:56 GMT
That time again. Love it.
A Christmas Carol. Best is the Patrick Stewart version but the Ross Kemp one good too. What it several times every year. Soon time to get the tree out and put the decorations up.
Mince pies, Sherry and Christmas dinner with family.
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Post by mrb on Nov 15, 2024 15:14:52 GMT
That time again. Love it. A Christmas Carol. Best is the Patrick Stewart version but the Ross Kemp one good too. What it several times every year. Soon time to get the tree out and put the decorations up. Mince pies, Sherry and Christmas dinner with family. I’ll raise you Alistair Sim for best Scrooge..I don’t mind the odd mince pie..But the Chrismas dinner is number 1 for me |
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Post by bigron on Nov 15, 2024 15:31:39 GMT
I'm not a Christmas lover ( especially this coming one being the first one without mum ☹️ ) i will however accept the invitation to go to my nephews for a large family get together , no doubt i will consume a fair bit of booze to ease the pain .
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Post by FargO on Nov 15, 2024 16:28:32 GMT
My Mum died this year as well Ron - 2 weeks before her birthday (she would have been 101). She lived in the Isle of Dogs throughout the blitz and used to tell us about the church near her block of flats that was flattened by a landmine.
As for Christmas, I enjoy It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol and a whisky or two. I don't enjoy the commercial hype nor the religion propaganda while there's genocide going on in various theatres around the world.
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Post by dohnut on Nov 15, 2024 16:57:25 GMT
That time again. Love it. A Christmas Carol. Best is the Patrick Stewart version but the Ross Kemp one good too. What it several times every year. Soon time to get the tree out and put the decorations up. Mince pies, Sherry and Christmas dinner with family. I’ll raise you Alistair Sim for best Scrooge..I don’t mind the odd mince pie..But the Chrismas dinner is number 1 for me Forget about Alistair Sim. He was good. |
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Post by redshank on Nov 15, 2024 17:22:47 GMT
Love the carol Oh come Oh come Emmanuel.Will watch the religious service on Christmas day then it will be an ordinary day.May have roast lamb.Then look forward to Boxing Day and all the sport.I love the King George at Kempton Park.I can then fast forward to Spring of 2025.
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Post by dohnut on Nov 15, 2024 20:53:25 GMT
Not so much now but midnight mass was a tradition in the doh household. That and the carols add on. I appreciate for some Christmas and new year is a really tough time. At the stroke of midnight news years Eve/day I say a silent happy new year to many of my family no longer with us. Never forgotten. I dare say many of us do.
Christmas Day brings back so many good memories of times gone by. With it the hope we are creating good memories for others in our family. Time moves on. Recall Leslie Crowther in the childrens hospital. Think Max Bygraves did similar.
It’s a day to be enjoyed whilst you can.
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Post by theydonorient on Nov 15, 2024 21:38:02 GMT
Alistair Sim was good , the Ross Kemp retelling was a good attempt at a modern version but for me the best of all was the 1970 musical version Scrooge with Albert Finney, Alec Guiness, Edith Evans, Kenneth Moore, Anton Rodgers, Gordon Jackson and a host of stars.
If this version doesn’t bring home the story whilst throughly entertaining you then you must be a Bah Humbug !
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Post by arrgee on Nov 16, 2024 0:28:43 GMT
Jingle All The Way is the ultimate festive movie,followed by Die Hard and Die Harder with an honourable mention for Home Alone 1&2, Krampus and Scrooged. I will confess to a liking for It's A Wonderful Life which is best watched late on Christmas Day when everyone else bar my daughter and I have gone to bed.
PS Do not watch Cats - I watched it once and not sure I have wholly recovered.
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Post by billericayo on Nov 16, 2024 6:01:27 GMT
I'm not a Christmas lover ( especially this coming one being the first one without mum ☹️ ) i will however accept the invitation to go to my nephews for a large family get together , no doubt i will consume a fair bit of booze to ease the pain . Time is a great healer bigron, just enjoy the occasion |
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Post by billericayo on Nov 16, 2024 6:06:04 GMT
Not so much now but midnight mass was a tradition in the doh household. That and the carols add on. I appreciate for some Christmas and new year is a really tough time. At the stroke of midnight news years Eve/day I say a silent happy new year to many of my family no longer with us. Never forgotten. I dare say many of us do. Christmas Day brings back so many good memories of times gone by. With it the hope we are creating good memories for others in our family. Time moves on. Recall Leslie Crowther in the childrens hospital. Think Max Bygraves did similar. It’s a day to be enjoyed whilst you can. Always wanted to tell us a story did Max |
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Post by mrb on Nov 16, 2024 7:36:44 GMT
Not so much now but midnight mass was a tradition in the doh household. That and the carols add on. I appreciate for some Christmas and new year is a really tough time. At the stroke of midnight news years Eve/day I say a silent happy new year to many of my family no longer with us. Never forgotten. I dare say many of us do. Christmas Day brings back so many good memories of times gone by. With it the hope we are creating good memories for others in our family. Time moves on. Recall Leslie Crowther in the childrens hospital. Think Max Bygraves did similar. It’s a day to be enjoyed whilst you can. Midnight mass was forced upon me and my siblings at Christmas! |
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Post by dohnut on Nov 16, 2024 12:48:37 GMT
Not so much now but midnight mass was a tradition in the doh household. That and the carols add on. I appreciate for some Christmas and new year is a really tough time. At the stroke of midnight news years Eve/day I say a silent happy new year to many of my family no longer with us. Never forgotten. I dare say many of us do. Christmas Day brings back so many good memories of times gone by. With it the hope we are creating good memories for others in our family. Time moves on. Recall Leslie Crowther in the childrens hospital. Think Max Bygraves did similar. It’s a day to be enjoyed whilst you can. Midnight mass was forced upon me and my siblings at Christmas! A tradition in my childhood household. Strong Catholic upbringing, midnight mass an extension of the Sunday ritual. As an Altar-boy I got the chance to participate in the service too. Much of it in Latin, something I was forced to learn at school. Hated it. Always struck me how odd it was the congregation following the Latin Service when few, if any, knew what they were actually saying. The other thing I observed was how many pious people came out of the pub, smelling of booze. The start of my understanding of the hypocrisy of religion. So many examples later. |
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Post by mujtahido on Nov 16, 2024 13:21:42 GMT
I still love Christmas Eve there's always a lovely feel in the air everyone is relaxed and in a happy mood enjoy a nice afternoon drink in the pub with friends can’t beat it
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Post by redshank on Nov 16, 2024 16:35:47 GMT
We keep a candle burning over the Christmas time for all those that are not with us.I will wear my brothers watch who died in 1984,brother Walts ashes will be in a prominent position and photographs of others that have died including my great friend Henry.
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Post by OrientEd on Nov 16, 2024 19:34:22 GMT
That time again. Love it. A Christmas Carol. Best is the Patrick Stewart version but the Ross Kemp one good too. What it several times every year. Soon time to get the tree out and put the decorations up. Mince pies, Sherry and Christmas dinner with family. 'That time again' begins on December 1st MINIMUM!! A a Trekkie I love Sir Patrick Stewart but it's WAAAAY too early to put his and the other X-Mas films on!! |
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Post by redshank on Nov 18, 2024 11:35:57 GMT
I will buy the most expensive bottle of Madeira I can find where I do my usual shop.
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Post by Thor on Nov 18, 2024 13:40:46 GMT
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Post by tattyfilarious on Nov 18, 2024 14:06:07 GMT
Enlighten us, what is your favourite Madeira?
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Post by redshank on Nov 18, 2024 17:14:49 GMT
That will do,but I was thinking in the £40-£50 bracket. |
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