Bunkermagnet
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I still have some
Yore Christmas
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SwingsitlikeHogan
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The importance of the little porcelain figures on top of the Christmas cake - Santa pushing a Wheelbarrow full of presents, and A little boy with a Woollen hat and scarf throwing a snowball. They just had to be there.
And a special Scottish one perhaps. Mum making a clootie dumpling - though mostly it was for Hogmanay.
And a special Scottish one perhaps. Mum making a clootie dumpling - though mostly it was for Hogmanay.
AmandaJR
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Funny enough I was just with a friend and we saw the Radio Times. We reminisced about getting the double edition of BOTH and then reading it cover to cover and having it open on the relevant day each day.
Smiffy
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Even now, whenever I smell an Orange or Satsuma being peeled, I immediately think of Christmas.
Christmas was the only time of the year we ever had fruit in our house.
arnieboy
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Our grandchildren won't believe that we used to have a satsuma in our 'stocking' alongside not much else.
Smiffy
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Spoilt rotten aren't they???
Christmas morning was also the only one of the year we had a cooked breakfast. Scrambled egg, chipolatas and bacon. The rest of the year it was either toast or porridge.
Voyager EMH
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Dad and his 3 sisters knew how to make a clootie dumpling, but we all preferred our grandmother's (mum's mum) bara brith.
Smiffy
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Mum used to buy the plastic mesh bags of mixed nuts.
It was always the Brazils that went first, usually followed by the walnuts and almonds. The piddly little hazelnuts were always last...
Still love Brazils.
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Voyager EMH
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A slab of toffee that came with its own little hammer. The toffee was guaranteed to remove teeth from the very young and fillings from the old.
srixon 1
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My dad having his mates round and each one of them brought a tin of Party 7 with them.
Smiffy
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My dad invited his mates around one Christmas evening and between them they broke my new slot car racing set, (battery operated version as we weren't rich enough for a proper scalextric).
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arnieboy
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My mum always bought a box of dates and a box of Turkish Delight, from what I remember both ended up in the bin to be replaced the following year.
AmandaJR
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Same. Brazils a hell of a job to crack and then the walnuts were very hit and miss as to whether slightly mouldy or not - lovely
Smiffy
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"Eat me" dates. Remember them well. With the long plastic "fork" in them.
We still have dates today, but proper, plump Medjool ones.
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Rlburnside
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Grandfather always used to have a scramble he used to save all his coppers and Christmas Day he threw them all over the wall and us younger ones out of the 10 kids would all rush and gather them.
Cowboy gun and outfit to go and shoot the Indians.
Cowboy gun and outfit to go and shoot the Indians.
Rlburnside
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Yea only time of year we got a bit of fruit ?
SwingsitlikeHogan
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My uncle was an area bank manager for Barclays in Bootle (he was Liverpool FC‘s bank manager). Many of his clients gave him gifts at Christmas…usually booze. One year an Iranian customer gave him a tin of pistachio nuts. They were very exotic at the time (about 1970-71) and not generally available to buy. We were at my aunt and uncle‘s for Christmas that year (a first ever family Christmas not in our own home). I had never tasted one before and thought they were marvellous.
Rlburnside
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I was thinking the same, remember telling grandkids we played tin can allay when we were kids and they asked what it was.
I told them it was a pea tin with sticks on placed in middle of road and two teams either side of road bowling a ball at tin.
They said yea Daa but that was in the olden days?
Did you play that?
As kids we used to spend every Christmas at our cousins’ house in South Yorkshire. Not particularly a festive memory, but we always went to a pizza parlour in Sheffield on Christmas Eve, and I remember waking up and seeing the lounge piled high with presents.
As we got older I used to love a lunchtime pint in the pub, The Hare & Hounds in Dore, and my aunt’s Christmas lunches were legendary.
Happy days indeed. And as a teenager the Top Of The Pops Christmas special was always worth a watch.
As we got older I used to love a lunchtime pint in the pub, The Hare & Hounds in Dore, and my aunt’s Christmas lunches were legendary.
Happy days indeed. And as a teenager the Top Of The Pops Christmas special was always worth a watch.
