Christmas lockdown?

Oh, come on , Kitty, hardly “lumbered”. He’s one of the lucky ones and I bet he’s looking forward to it.

Lucca ?. Does your name, incidentally, have any connection with that beautiful Tuscan city? One of my favourite places!

I think what maw says is right - we all have our own sadness at this time.

My sadness is that poor DS1 is lumbered with coming to us on Christmas day. And, who wants to spend Christmas Day with their aged parents!

Callistemon

BlueSky

Lucca Kalu Calli and many more on here with DC and DGC in Australia. Shall we charter a jet and all go over together when this is over?

Yes, good idea! We could ask permission to go now ( family) and then isolate for 14 days first. I think, though, the plane will have to do some hops around Australia as well.

Just drop me off in Brisbane please. I so need a cuddle from DD.

BlueSky

Lucca Kalu Calli and many more on here with DC and DGC in Australia. Shall we charter a jet and all go over together when this is over?

Yes, good idea! We could ask permission to go now ( family) and then isolate for 14 days first. I think, though, the plane will have to do some hops around Australia as well.

Oh gosh, sorry Lucca I really wasn’t getting at you, please don’t think that for a minute.
The trouble with all of us being in different variations of the same boat is that sometimes we can think “I feel that way too, only it’s even worse in my case ” We all have our particular worries and sorrow especially at a time of year which means so much to us as mums and Grans.
I may envy some whose families live near enough to see them but I realise how lucky I am that we are in the same country - let alone continent! ?????

I think this year there is a definite year for a gn panto and party! We had one years ago and we had an actual Carol singalong - not virtual!!

Oh yes Lucca perhaps them being younger would be better but I wouldn’t like to think I’ll never visit again! ???

Yup. I’m in. Or bring them all over here. Think what fun they’d have on the plane!

Lucca Kalu Calli and many more on here with DC and DGC in Australia. Shall we charter a jet and all go over together when this is over?

FlyingHxndbag

Thanks WinterWhite, I didn't mean for it to be provocative, I meant it as the truth. X

That’s the point FH. It’s the truth that you are planning a celebration which is against all guidelines. and you must realise that you shouldn’t be, however hard that thought is.

In fact worn out more than one pair of shoes, Lucca! ?

Thanks WinterWhite, I didn't mean for it to be provocative, I meant it as the truth. X

Hi all. Just to say I was not being competitive about who is more stressed,sad,lonely etc I know in many ways I am lucky. I was merely replying to a post about plans for a Christmas celebration which, in my view, were irresponsible. And in fact vis a vis the pandemic we have all walked a mile in the shoes !

I may have that somewhere.
My Mum used a ginger parkin recipe from the Cannon cookery book, long since thrown out.

Callistemon

That looked a bit like a page from an old Cannon gas cookery book!

Delias complete cookery book - much loved and used with stains, marks, bits of dried up ingredients throughout.

Sorry, X post, I was replying to winterwhite

Oh I thought this was an open forum. I do apologise for treading on your toes, if you pardon the pun. .

I think posters realised that.

It's all rather Bel Mooney.

winterwhite

Keep going Flying Handbag. It was a provocative post, but we all have limits to what we can take and 'no one should judge who hasn't walked a mile in your shoes'.

Really ? What shoes would those be? Someone who doesn’t care about other people being infected? I expect men who beat their wives argue that they have different limits to men who don’t so shouldn’t be criticised.

I was replying to Flying Handbag at 6.04.

no one should judge who hasn't walked a mile in your shoes

It's not where FH has walked that concerns me, but where she is planning to walk to, that causes me concern.

That looked a bit like a page from an old Cannon gas cookery book!

winterwhite

Keep going Flying Handbag. It was a provocative post, but we all have limits to what we can take and 'no one should judge who hasn't walked a mile in your shoes'.

Have I missed something? Is it a competition now?

My mother used to make parkin.
No-one now likes it except me though.

Keep going Flying Handbag. It was a provocative post, but we all have limits to what we can take and 'no one should judge who hasn't walked a mile in your shoes'.