Well That’s Christmas Cancelled For Us

DGD came back from University in London last Friday and LFT showed positive so she went for a walk-in-CPR test on Saturday and yes she has it. Luckily she has had 2 jabs and seems to be OK but the Boxing Day gathering at theirs has been put back 10 days to 27th. Fine by us - we'll have our leftovers from Christmas Day on Boxing Day. We just have to roll with it and realise that despite the virus, we will meet again as Vera used to sing and Her Majesty told us last year!

My DS and family from overseas found a small window in the restrictions and made it here last month. First time I'd seen them since Dec 2019 and his DS since July 2019. I feel I've celebrated already with all the family together again and we even ate in a cafe which was fully decorated for Christmas! When my DS moved abroad some years ago, we actually did a surprise Christmas dinner with all the decs for him - in September. So make of the situation and the day what you can, it's not cancelled just postponed.

Ha ...maybe I am more fortunate than most then !! I have no family and will, as usual, be spending the season on my own .....got used to it now ...got in the chocolates, the Baileys, chicken breast (too much on a crown !) etc etc and hope there's something worth watching on the tele .............Happy Christmas everybody ...........I have done a lot of travelling this year but its looking like my New Year jaunt to foreign parts is off ...........hope I will still be around when travel is possible again !!

Dickens I do hope it works out for you and your son can get to you. Wishing you well x

Theoddbird

Dickens I do hope it works out for you and your son can get to you. Wishing you well x

... thank you!

He's arriving here tomorrow - so it's looking good!

Sadly yes I have been affected since July 2019 when my DS were last over here in the UK. He works in Tokyo Japan closed their borders and I honestly feel it will be summer 2022 when I see them again. All due to Covid. Christmas again will be very quiet as friends who were coming feel it’s safer for them to stay home n not get the virus. Incidentally today Tokyo a city of 14 million have registered just 7 Covid cases.

That’s such good news. Really pleased for you. Enjoy that special time together.

Yes we saw my grandson at my sons weekend .didn't get near him at all and he played upstairs. He lives with his mother. They are separated. But whEn home that day he tested positive for covid. They also popped to my daughters earlier on.So now we are all going be testing to see if we are clear .nothing so far anyway . My daughter and family were coming here Xmas day . But will see as long as all ok we can schedule it for another day if need to.

Of course there are others in the same situation. Surely this doesn’t come as any surprise with so many people acting as if Covid had gone away. At least you are not on your own and I wish you a safe and Merry Christmas.

If Christmas with my DS & Family is cancelled it will just be another day on my own as it has been since the first lockdown. After second lockdown was ready to go back to volunteering when injury happened so not going back now. Very many days on my own with no friends or family close to visit plus restrictions mean a lonely life when stuck indoors. So another lockdown will be no different to me than the last 18mths-2yrs have been. Living alone is not great but I have my little companion cat so not totally alone! Have a good Christmas Gransnetters whatever happens.

wildswan16

Christmas cannot be cancelled. Christmas is a day to spend as you wish - for many it is a day for church and God, for others it is for spending time with family, for others it is for over-indulging and opening unwanted presents.

Wherever you are, whoever you are with - it can be celebrated. Of course some of us can't be where we would prefer to be. But life doesn't always give us that. Just give thanks for what we have - which is a lot better than many in this world have.

this absolutely.

My son works abroad and was originally not due to be home for Christmas so DDiL & the 2 boys were heading to her parents for Christmas. First of all, younger son, 3, caught Covid then mum got it & now elder son. DS has come home early to help out, straight into a covid hotbed so they'll all be out of circulation for some time into the new year. Shit happens...

Dickens, I so hope it all works out well for you and you can enjoy good times with your son. Take care and best wishes.

I am going to be on my own over Christmas.... my choice.

My son was going to pick me up and drive me down to my daughter's, 2 hours away, but I have just told him that I don't feel safe to go and now he is disappointed and upset. I have yet to tell my daughter.

I have not been in an enclosed indoor setting with 5 other people since before the pandemic. Last Christmas we celebrated in my garden on Christmas morning.

My granddaughter is home from university in London and has been out partying with her local friends and boyfriend, and I don't want to stop her doing all the typical teenage things, but she has only just had her 2nd vax and grandson has only had his 1st.

I would rather postpone seeing them until the Omicron peak has passed and I can really enjoy their company without stressing.

So I will be on here over Christmas to "chat" to anyone else who's on their own.

That's, as the song goes, 'Is life' and there will be many for whatever reason will not be able to spend xmas with loved ones. .

My son's lateral flow test yesterday showed positive and he is now waiting for the results of the PCR test. This has well scuppered his Xmas plans. He and his girlfriend (whose LFT was negative) had both booked this week off from work to enjoy Xmas activities with friends and just spend time together. Now he is very glum at being apart from her. We are trying to stay away from him, but the 3 of us live in a small house with all facilities shared so that's difficult and demoralising for him as well. Blasted virus, just sick of what it is doing to people's lives.

it is only one day in the year. If Charles Dickens had written a different ending to A Christmas Carol none of us would celebrate in the way we do.

Last Christmas my husband came down with COVID on the 20th December, so the lovely family Christmas we had planned went out of the window. He wasn’t at all well, so he spent most of the festive period in bed. It was disappointing, but we have used it to remind ourselves of what we do have ?

Oh SillyNanny I feel for you, I’m not in your circumstances at the moment, as I have my HD, otherwise with family abroad and nobody else nearby, my life would be just as lonely. Big (virtual) hug.

Lovely uplifting message.

To this OP and re Irish wedding couple I’d quote the WHO Chief
” ‘An event cancelled is better than a life cancelled”

Sorry if I'm joining this late. I had Christmas planned with my eldest daughter and family coming to stay from Singapore (so I don't see them often), plus my youngest daughter and her husband were joining us. So looking forward to seeing them all, seven in total. Eldest daughter had to cancel last week, youngest daughter cancelled this morning - all for covid reasons.

While I'm deeply upset and now will be alone on Christmas Day I agree with all the other GNs who say we have to make the best of it. There are so many people worse off than me, and I find all the comments on Gransnet a real source of wisdom! Uplifting.

Lots of good wishes to all of you facing all these various challenges.

Somehow, we will all get through this

I am SO sorry for everyone who will not get the Christmas they wanted and hoped for - for the second year in a row. I think or Christmas Day with oldest daughter and her partner will be OK but I daren't presume. And as for our visit to second daughter and her family on 27th/28th and the family party on 29th, in-laws to us on 30th, I think they are very vulnerable to the coming restrictions. We've already lost the niece and family from America who were coming the weekend just gone by but had to go straight to their final destination. But really, we just have to suck it up, don't we? Cling on to hopes that we will all be able to have the Christmases we want at some point in the future.

According to the recent BMJ (British medical journal) Omicron causes the same symptoms as a cold. - I won't worry!

Our visit to our only child, DD and her partner, is cancelled as she has Covid and self-isolating. But she had been considering, as had we, whether travelling to see than in London was wise, given that the omicron variant seems rampant there, so in the end, almost a relief that the decision was made for us. Initial reaction was, I can’t face putting up trimmings here, but am now about to bring last year’s Christmas tree in from the garden and myself and DH will have a quiet day on our own, open our presents to each other (I bought mine from him) and go for a nice walk after lunch if fine. Their presents will just have to sit in a box till we next see them (it was August last year, and some of the choccies were past their sell-by date)