* Rocking around the Christmas Tree * - It's the 2018 Christmas Chatter Thread

System

Kerri - Ive got more chance of platting fog than getting her to have anything green !

Treasurequeen

my favourite panto: Cinderella
Favourite drink: I don't drink alcohol but I love a glass of iced cold fiery ginger beer or elderflower cordial.
favourite desert: lemon roulade
favourite treat: munching on orange matchmakers whilst wrapping gifts
worst food: Christmas pudding, mince pies, Christmas cake and marzipan fruits.

jakes-mum

Worst foods are definitely christmas pudding, mince pies and christmas cake! who thought up these things? _pale_

Still nothing christmassy going on, but my benefits man came to see me and has taken all my forms (including my ESA! :eek: ) and is going through them all with a fine tooth comb. We were waiting for a supporting letter from my OT (which arrived yesterday) so he will come back and fill the form in hopefully next week I feel soooooo much calmer right now.

now its back to cajolling kid number 2 into the shower and kid number 1 out the door, I swear trying to get the pair of them to do stuff is like wrangling cats!

nic2075

I can't believe we are in June already, and already at the 10th, how did that happen? Life just seems to pass faster and faster. I always look forward to Christmas approaching, but I'd like time to slow a little. Before my kids are all too old.

I missed the festive trivia, but it put me in a Christmassy mood.
Fave Panto- Cinderella
Fave treat- hot chocolate with the works
Fave drink - baileys. Only ever drink it at Christmas
Worst food- Christmas pudding
Fave dessert - home made pavlova

I'm hungry now lol. I've been sticking to slimming world this week and last. I've lost 1/2 a stone so far. I've a bit to go, but I've enjoyed everything I've easten this week. I'm back to doing the old green days mostly. I don't eat much meat anyway. So far it's working for me. Just need to get after eights and hot chocolate out my mind now lol.

vulpix

My internet drops out all the time and I just lost a post.Will be much briefer this time round.

Oh dear Chrissy,I hope your daughter is starting to feel the benefits of her tablets now.

We got a prom dress that we both like!Also got underwear and shoes.Just need a bag.She is not into the spray tan/nails/hair /makeup thank goodness.What we have bought already has cost enough.

MIL is back home but not what you could call well.

I got 3lbs of raspberries for £1 today at a market/carboot.6 jars of jam made for gifts.

Am at school tomorrow so will get some elderflowers off the tree in the playground to make cordial and liqueur. My strawberries have masses of fruit so will also make some jam. I feel like I have made a start on the home made hampers.They went down well last year so will do them again with some cash.DD2 will have cash and a few bits to unwrap.

sorry,too tired to repeat all I said before.

Love to all Vx

System

Worst food 100% christmas cake/pudding cant bear to look at it even .


Had Dd back to the Drs monday on top of everything else she has a virus , he is however going to do another blood test next week just to see if things are improving .


The dreaded PIP forms arrived yesterday so im hoping to complete them Thursday/Friday.

jakes-mum

Afternoon christmassy people

Hope your DD is better soon ChrissyG

I have been laid up for nearly a week with a horrible virus, no cold or cough or anything like that, just lots and lots of pain and feeling like 17 million buses all drove over me one after the other I first thought it was because of the whole DWP debarcles but DH woke yesterday and was complaining of the exact same thing. I still am not anywhere near right but can at least use the laptop without feeling like i'm dying. Have not felt like this in such a long time

On the diet front, DH has lost a stone since we started last month, I have lost like 2 pounds i've actually got to the point that i've asked my doctor to check my thyroid as it just doesn't make sense, I don't eat sweets, eat very little food but still the weight wont budge, I know i'm not active due to the health problems, but I did 2 weeks of checking the calories on my food and i'm well within the perameters according to the NHS for intake as an inactive person

Still nothing christmassy, just feel way to poorly right now to do anything, I have to go with my mum to take DD to have her hair cut in half an hour so will struggle through that and then come back to my chair.

Peppapig

Worst food is definitely brussel sprouts - and not just at Christmas either:D It’s a tradition that I make myself eat one sprout with my Christmas dinner but that’s it for the year. Everyone else in the family likes them but not me.

JAKESMUM sorry you’re having such a rough time with this virus, it sounds horrible. Hope you manage ok this afternoon and feel much better soon.

CHRISSY your poor DD is going through it too, hope she’s soon feeling better. Good luck with the forms.

VULPIX result on the prom shopping. I love the casual way you’ve just made six jars of jam, that would rate a post all of its own if I ever managed it. Your home made hampers sound lovely.

Nothing happening on the Christmas front here, I’m finding the garden is holding my interest at the moment. Yesterday I ate my very first home grown strawberry. It was amazing. Unfortunately I’m on holiday next week so I’ll miss any that ripen then. My loss will be my neighbour’s gain although they give us their surplus cooking apples so it’ll be nice to be able to reciprocate. I think I’ll expand my strawberry growing next year if all goes well. I’ve got three little baby berries on one of my blueberry plants too so I’m on a roll at the moment. Someone is giving me some tomato plants when I come back from hols so fingers crossed they prove fruitful (sorry:p). We’ve got good weather again today, long may it continue.

Hope everyone is ok.

vulpix

rashin,fashin,******* !!!! dastardly.Yet another post lost,will I never learn.

Basically said,Peppa, making jam is easy,glad you are enjoying your garden and have a nice holiday.

Jakes Mum,hope you are all feeling much better by now.

some other stuff

What was your worst and best present?

My worst was a dead tortoise with horrible glass eyes,best an unexpected engagement ring from Mr V.

Vx

jakes-mum

Morning

Still feeling lousy, doctor has put me on duloxotine for the pain with a casual 'try and get through the first 5 days as you might feel nauseous' Took one last night before bed, woke up all through the night in so much pain and then wide awake 6am thinking 'I don't feel good'. Really really feel washed out and the nausea comes and goes. I do NOT like these tablets at all but will try and stick it through the 5 days until the nausea is supposed to wear off (Lying DH who was also prescribed them said 'oh yeah, you only suffer with about 20 mins of nausea on them' lies I tell you! lies!!!)

Vulpix your jam sounds lovely, I would love to try something like that, unfortunately I did not inherit my fathers green thumb in any way shape or form! I even managed to nearly kill a cactus and had to donate it too my parents to bring it back from the brink :rotfl:

Worst and best present:

Worst was actually a birthday present but was so bad I think it qualifies. A so called 'friend' took a photo of me and put it in a cheap silver frame that had a picture of a dog and the word woof underneath for my 18th. I gave it back to her and walked away.

best present was from my DH, he was never the best at presents and did tend to buy me things that he wanted that he knew i'd say no too, like a DVD player when they first came out (I had never wanted one and had said no numerous times to the rediculous price tag so I got one for my birthday because he thought 'I would like it' *rolls Eyes*). Anyway, I have a huge love of crafting and about 6 years ago (15 years we had been together so I was used to the fake prezzies lol) he gives me a big square gift, I open it up and its a four tier storage box for all my craft things, each drawer comes out and has a lid so you can use them seperately. No word of a lie, I cried. Best present ever.

Second best, DS follows his dad in the present department if he can actually be bothered to get one :rotfl:, last christmas he nicked one of my photos off FB of me, him and his sister, printed it off at boots and put it in a frame. That was really special as 1) I have very few pictures of me with the kids as I normally hold the camera, and 2) it was the first time he'd thought about and gone out to get a present for me, normally he sticks his name on the gift his sister buys.