To think people are just plain INSANIO about Christmas?

[HullyEastergully]

In many different ways.

So much upset and pain and worry and strategising.

It's not good.

The Tufty family are having Christmas dinner in the camper van. Parked on the beach.

I don't trust the sticky little bastards. Sometimes they all develop static and wrap themselves enthusiastically and permanently around all the furniture. Last year I got one of those special dispensers that lets you pull off the right amount each time and it's the only ridiculous first world product I've ever felt was truly worth it.

Are you really tifty?

That will be lovely. One Christmas the hully family had Christmas in a giant Winnebago on the Florida Keys with a tree in a box we bought from Walmart and a great many Margaritas. Happy daze.

Dh goes out with DS2 each year to buy the tree.
I think they get involved in a sort of phallic posturing. Each year the tree gets bigger.

That sounds fab Tufty.

I think we shouldgo to Egypt Paggy, they will need us.

I found a use for teenagers last year.

I made one of them cut bits of sellotape and hand them to me.

It was the only useful contribution any of them made to Christmas . Apart from tree-buying, which I have been banned from as apparently I am too particular take too much time.

That sounds like a bloody great Christmas Hilly.
I havn't run my plan past Mr Tufty but ...

I'll send you a postcard Pag, if you all get back from Egypt. DH has just come back from Cairo, the cars and the driving of them is no holds barred.

We should go.

Motherfuckings DD would love us to be there as we are very cool.

Hahahahaha

poor sods who celebrate xmas

hahahahaha

lol at abs

DD would love two wiry bouncers.

TBF it would be one wiry bouncer (pag) and one stout one

ABSY AND PAGS GO AND SIGN IN AND STOP IGNORING ME

ABS AND PAGS
ABS AND PAGS
ABS AND PAGS

Come on pag. You know you want another hotel room where your can be intimately aquainted with the commuters on the 17.47 train to Southend.

And you abs. Pull your fingers out.

We might put the electric fan heater on this year

You are not stout but I could still kick your arse in an arm wrestle [fact]

Motherfuckings DD won't trust us to protect them if we fight amongst ourselves.

I am enjoying using Motherfucking btw. It's like being mates with the cast of The Wire

It is isn't it. I feel all street wise and everything.

That's that then. Ebtertainment for the meet up sorted. Pag and hully arm wrestling.

what do you do at xmas abs?

Don't go mad, sole.

Morrisman - just don't do what another family did when we went to Luxor. They took their 17yo blonde DD to the Market and were surprised and horrified at the attention she got. I asked what she had worn - "oh, just normal stuff." "Normal stuff" turned out to be leggings and a fitted t shirt. Roughly the equivalent of going round Barnsley Market in a bikini

Intelligent family too, the mother was a GP iirc.

Last year we went to Tobago and spent the day driving up one coast (and accidentally to the other side of the coast. It took us ten minutes to get back - it's a small island) and visiting all the beaches, which were deserted, and went swimming and splashing about. In the evening we went to the local bar and hung out with the absolutely hammered locals and drank rum. This year, we'll be hanging with the in laws. nothing planned so far, but I doubt it will involve swimming in Caribbean seas . Probably trying to figure out how to get around with no public transport or watching bad movies. Year before, I went to Rome (DH was away with his family sleeping in tents in Morocco, but fancy tents), which was nice. I ate a lot of pasta.

no one likes you

you know that, don't you?

Anyway the point is WE LIKE CHRISTMAS on this fred, tis fun.

Yes, we all like it.

In December, mind. So we can chat happily about it now, but we aren't going to get all angsty about not having bought (or wrapped ffs ) the presents yet or whether or not mil can be in the same room as some aged aunt.