Christmas has come early
Grandad December 23rd, 2007
I know some of you have been celebrating Christmas since last July.
It has apparently been the sole topic of conversation in some quarters.
Here at Head Rambles Manor, we try to do things traditionally, but through force of circumstance, we have to start Christmas early this year.
Tomorrow, we are expecting K8 and TAT, along with Laughing Boy and Puppychild to come and stay. They’ll probably change their minds and not turn up, but that’s life.
So I am starting Christmas today.
Later, once I have plucked up the courage, I will venture forth into the estate, and will proceed to freeze my nuts off while cutting copious amounts of holly and ivy.
If I survive that, I have to fight with the strings of lights, and find which of the many sets actually work, and try to find where the hell I put the spare bulbs from last year.
If I survive that, I’ll decorate the place.
We have a strange house that doesn’t lend itself to large Christmas trees, so we have a very small one, just for the sake of tradition. I decorate the room with lights instead.
If I survive that, I might have a drop or five of the hard stuff. I’ll need it.
Most of you are sensible, and confine your blog reading to office hours. Let the company pay, I say. I can tell that from the visitors to the site. You usually start surfing around ten in the morning. It’s good of you to put in an hours legitimate work.
The really sensible ones will be reporting for work tomorrow. There is no point in wasting a days leave when you know the day is going to consist of drinks in various offices before everyone f*cks off early.
So I don’t expect many readers after that.
So, I wish you all a Peaceful and Happy Christmas, and to my American friends, lest you be insulted, I wish you a Peaceful and Happy Holiday.
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And to you Grandad. Enjoy yourselves!
Grandad,
If all is quiet, you can have a couple of extra drinks for those of us who are working through the holiday.
I’m taking Wednesday off to go to a rugby match, otherwise it’s business as usual.
I was talking to an IT guy who works for one of the US multinationals. Their Christmas holiday starts on Tuesday and finishes on Tuesday. A friend who manages an electrical retailer similarly has just one day off. I’m not sure how some people are getting two weeks off!
Deborah - We’ll do our best
Ian - I’ll raise a glass to you. I think you are being a bit lax in taking Wednesday off though?
For myself? I might take Tuesday off….. Or part of it anyway…
Happy Christmas! Grandad
I hope you survive it when it does FINALLY arrive!
The reason we surfs (plebs) don’t visit your site any earlier in the day is because you have us so well-trained, we know what time to expect your daily ration of fun.
Thanks for all the wonderful entertainment, Grandad. You’re a star trooper!
Nothing says Happy Holidays like drinking while playing with sharp objects and electrical thingys
Please do them in the proper order, I don’t think we can survive into next year without you.
…and step is right, Pavlov would be proud
Starting the day before Christmas Eve sounds like a good idea to me. Much better than October!
Herself was telling me that back in Poland, the celebrations start on Christmas Eve when all the family bring home a tree and decorate it. It stays up about a week and then they celebrate the end of christmas by undecorating it as it were. Much more sensible and family orientated than the “who gives the best presents” type affair that we have here now.
Happy Christmas as well to you and yours Grandad.
Steph - What time do you all start drooling?
Stepford Mum - I have just frozen my assets, getting holly. I won’t be playing with anything more dangerous than a whiskey bottle….
Robert - I’m starting today, only because the Mob are expected tomorrow, otherwise I’d do it then. The whole lot comes down on the 6th, before I become tired of it. The Twelve Days of Christmas. La la la la la,,, la la la la.
Welcome Howard, and thanks. Happy Christmas to you too.
May your cups overfloweth with CHRISTMAS Cheer! I know mine will.
Merry Merry Christmas!
Olga - I intend to be in my cups by midnight. Thanks for all your support during the year.
We are well into the Christmas here! I raise my glass to you and yours. Cheers from Elly, George and this ould biddy!
Yeah, that’s it - drink! I knew I was forgetting something. Thank’s, Grandad.
Grannymar - You’ll be bored with it by Tuesday. Enjoy!!
Sneezy - There is always something you forget…
Merry Christmas to you and yours….have a drop on me…:)..put it on my tab…someday I might get over there and pay it…but probably not…
Merry Christmas Grandad! Wish I was there long enough to toast to your health. I’ll then toast to your better half’s self, and then a toast to K8 and then a toast to *hic* the reswt of ur fambly wun buy *hic* won. anthen a…[thud!].
And a Happy Holidays to all the rest. Yes, even to you Politically Correct…uh…people.
Well we’ve already cranked up in the antipodes. Um I’m not in the office but it is around 10:00, by 3:00 I intend to be drinking daquiries and watching Christmas movies. Tomorrow, well all Hell will break loose of course! Have a fabulous Christmas with friends and family, be amazed by the sparkly bits around the house, relish those who are close and remember those who are not! And if you’re a really good Grandad, Santa might drop something nice down your chimmney! Cheers and salutations!
I am going to bed for Christmas, I plan to arise at some stage in the new year maybe the 1st or 2nd. Have a happy and safe Christmas!!
Robert [B] - Thank you very much. Very generous. You tab now stands at €1,205.26. But don’t worry - there’s a couple more days to go yet…
Kirk - I meant to do my recipe for a Christmas cake, involving a bottle of whiskey. I forgot. I’ll have to do it next year! Here’s to next Christmas!!
Cheers Baino. I’ll raise a glass to all my blogging friends. And I intend to have a roaring fire in the hearth to greet Santa.
Nonny - The most sensible suggestion yet!
“Hard Stuff” being eggnog or Potcheen?
I usually lurk in round noon or after midnight your time. Ah, the joy of timezones. 
Merry Christmas to all in Head Rambles manor. 
Hi JD - Hard stuff is whatever I can lay my hands on - whiskey, anti-freeze, brake fluid, methylated spirits - you name it.
And Merry Christmas to all in Jefferson Davis County.
Happy Christmas Grandad.
Happy Christmas to you too, Jack.