Anyone else excited?

It was an amazing Christmas.

Agree with Tooglamtogiveadamn

IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE!!!!

I am enjoying every moment of it, even if the cream cheese frosting for the Yule log is liquid rather than soft and ready to apply. I followed the recipe and I have done it before .

Meanwhile, supper time.

I am excited! The marzipan is now on my first ever homemade Christmas cake and it will be iced by Mr P tomorrow. Enjoying a vodka tonic right now. ?

Let's take a lead from the boys and chill out
Magsy; Thank you; although the "experts" are promising 33C for Christmas Day so "chilling out" will require quite a large stockpile of "coldies', but I'm sure we'll manage, stretched out on the lounger under the sun-umbrella. ; totally relaxed as I'll be on my own so no guilty conscience worrying about "grumpy" girls tearing their hair out in the kitchen. Anyway, you are too modest; after years of practice (how many would you say?) it'll be a doddle! Christmas comes but once a year... just relax and keep that sherry close to hand.
Good Luck and have a Merry Christmas.

Sorry Grandads, merry Christmas to you all too! Lovely to hear you are all jolly - you deserve to be santas. Let's hope the girls lighten up. I think one of the problems with the girls is that we all take on too much at this time of year, expecting everything to be perfect, and then get exhausted and grumpy. Let's take a lead from the boys and chill out.

Happy Christmas Tooglam and all other Grans, jolly or otherwise
Magsymoo: Hang on Magsy! There are still a few Grandads around and we are always jolly; otherwise we don't get the job of Santa.!
My Christmas Message from (not to!) the colonies to all you girls, is it's Christmas, so Kiss and Make up!
Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas Tooglam and all other Grans, jolly or otherwise. It's a pity when a lovely positive post degenerates into a slanging match and a race to the bottom in trying to out misery everyone else.

Monica - it was not my intention to disrupt the thread, but I am entitled to my opinion, as indeed you are yours. However, my feathers remain unruffled - Happy Christmas to you.

magsymoo I wholeheartedly agree with you. Happy Christmas!

That's alright Monica.

Gonegirl, my apologies. The problem with social media, we dip in and out of it when we can or want to, so some threads get very disjointed. and responses to one post look as if they are responses to another.

If you enjoy,best of luck to you.It provides some challenges for some.

I didn't get that right did I.

I wasn't actually referring to anything you said Monica. Just to billybob's post.

Sorry. I'm up with the stick and down with the rocket at the moment.

Gonegirl you have every right to misinterprete what I said. I assume you will not be celebrating Christmas because you will feel that any celebration or overeating would be a betrayal of all those without a roof over their heads.

Don't suppose the angels in Regents Street meant much to them.

She's right. Seeing the homeless does take away from it. It was cold and wet when I was there last weekend. We had a warm comfortable hotel to head back to.

There are plenty of other threads where the problems of homelessness are discussed and there are few of us who are not unaware of the problem and many who are playing their part in helping to resolve or deal with the problem.

But, just now and again, it is nice to have a thread in which we are entirely frivolous. This was mean to be one of those threads.

"should"

That's nothing to do with Christmas. It's just more poignant at this time of year, but homeless people are there all year round. It's the result of deliberate government policy re housing, benefits etc. If anything seeing those less fortunate than ourselves should make us appreciate what we can enjoy even more.

I visited London last week and saw homeless people sleeping on pavements, cold, wet, truly awful, heartbreaking, they wouldn't have much to get excited about at any time of the year.

I don't often post on gransnet but often read the posts and what strikes me is how often a positive and upbeat message is responded to by such negativity and, at times, unpleasantness. There is always such kindness expressed when someone is ill or is suffering emotionally but as soon as someone is positive, enthusiastic, full of joie de vivre, they get knocked down. Surely there are some jolly, happy grans out there! I, for one, am excited about Christmas!

if I express a lack of enthusiasm for Christmas?
oldbatty; There's no need to tell me what you lack! Lots of things I don't like either, including boring the pants of anyone unnecessarily. Like back at the World Cup when certain posters felt motivated to tell us all that they didn't like football.! Why do such people bother? We used to call it keeping one's own counsel; i.e. mouth shut!
Have a Very Happy Holiday!
Cheers

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live^.