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Christmas Day suggestions, anyone?
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Partner and I are spending Christmas Day together as just the two of us at home. His son is coming over on Boxing Day.
As the neighbours are starting to get very noisy, I need to have a backup plan to get us both out of the house for a few hours. No, we don't want to visit the neighbours! I've been thinking of going for a nice long walk after an early dinner, possibly seeing if the local pub is going to be open for a couple of hours, but eventually we'll have to come back home and if recent days have been any indicator, we'll be subjected to a lot of noise from their TV in the evening.
I really don't want to start a noise war with them by blasting out my own music or turning the volume right up on my TV, but I was hoping for a quietish night in front of the telly with OH.
I do expect there to be some noise at this time of year - families getting together and the occasional party - but I have a dreadful feeling that Christmas Day is going to be an absolute noise fest all day well into the night. And as we live in a one-room-wide terraced house, there's not really anywhere indoors to escape the noise. And I want to use avoidance/mitigating methods, rather than confrontational ones.
And yes, these are the same neighbours I've mentioned on a previous thread.
As the neighbours are starting to get very noisy, I need to have a backup plan to get us both out of the house for a few hours. No, we don't want to visit the neighbours! I've been thinking of going for a nice long walk after an early dinner, possibly seeing if the local pub is going to be open for a couple of hours, but eventually we'll have to come back home and if recent days have been any indicator, we'll be subjected to a lot of noise from their TV in the evening.
I really don't want to start a noise war with them by blasting out my own music or turning the volume right up on my TV, but I was hoping for a quietish night in front of the telly with OH.
I do expect there to be some noise at this time of year - families getting together and the occasional party - but I have a dreadful feeling that Christmas Day is going to be an absolute noise fest all day well into the night. And as we live in a one-room-wide terraced house, there's not really anywhere indoors to escape the noise. And I want to use avoidance/mitigating methods, rather than confrontational ones.
And yes, these are the same neighbours I've mentioned on a previous thread.
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Buy yourselves some decent wireless headphones each and enjoy watching TV.You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.
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Bit late to go get any now, unfortunately.0
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Fill car up, and go out for the day tomorrow. The roads will be busy....avoid alcohol...it stops you from driving..if it gets too loud...you cant escape...0
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Depending on Storm Barbara, & the availability of pubs, I'd go on a long walk. Syncopation is "irregular movement from bar to bar" - so syncopate?
If you stick to the drivers delights, you can add a car to the mix, but please consider the weather & who else will be on the roads?
Hoping you have a very Happy & reasonably quiet Christmas!0 -
Pubs are unlikely to be open. Some open in the morning "for regulars/locals" and have peanuts or roasties on the bar. They then close for the day. Others will close all day, opening just in the evening.
That bit in the middle of the day, between, say, noon and 7pm, you're unlikely to find one open.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Pubs are unlikely to be open. Some open in the morning "for regulars/locals" and have peanuts or roasties on the bar. They then close for the day. Others will close all day, opening just in the evening.
That bit in the middle of the day, between, say, noon and 7pm, you're unlikely to find one open.
Eh?
Practically all the pubs down here are open at lunchtime. Quite a few have sit down meals booked but you can still go and have a drink at the bar. The one I am popping into before braving OH's grandchildren is open 12-30 -
Wireless headphones, how romantic, ha,ha. Jokes.
Go for nice walk then lunch and pub as pn enjoy yourself.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Pubs are unlikely to be open. Some open in the morning "for regulars/locals" and have peanuts or roasties on the bar. They then close for the day. Others will close all day, opening just in the evening.
That bit in the middle of the day, between, say, noon and 7pm, you're unlikely to find one open.
Pubs will be open, well those who would be doing the christmas lunch.
Others might be open too.0 -
If nothing else 'spoons will be open as they are open for Christmas dinner.I Would Rather Climb A Mountain Than Crawl Into A Hole
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