To wonder if I'm ever going to get a bloody Christmas dinner?

[MadHattersWineParty]

At DP's Dad's in East London for Christmas. It's been lovely, loads of family and friends calling in, more booze than the local pub stocks, anything you want.

Christmas dinner been on since about 9. Things have been ready in that time and been taken out to 'go back in at the end'.

But when is the end?!! I'm so hungry that when we ran out of tonic water I legged it to the offy and had a secret packet of crisps on the way back. We had a croissant at 10 and nothing since then.

I'm smashed and bleeding hungry! They've just busted open a keg so I'm not sure dinner is going to happen at all.

There's a baby here who has a rusk. I'm eyeing that up right now. I don't think she'd put up much of a fight, but she has slobbered on it.

[Aeroflotgirl]

Is there a local MacDonalds you can leg it to, That would drive me blooming crazy.

[Aeroflotgirl]

If your there next year, pack a lunch to bring with you just in case!

[MrsH1989]

This has made me chuckle. We have eaten, just desert left but we are stuffed. I would steal a slice of turkey when they aren't looking. The rest will be dry later anyway.

[CalleighDoodle]

Does 'at the end' mean end of time? We had our christmas dinner at noon. Im hungry again now.

[Pantone363]

Ours still has 30 minutes or so but we had a full English this morning.

And two bottles of Buck's Fizz

And a bottle of prosecco

And the gin

And a shot of jäger whilst playing bounce off

[planter]

I think it all sounds wonderful.

Dinner is a perfunctory affair here and anything over three glasses of wine you get sideways glances...

Cheers!

[Allalonenow]

Can you not send out for a pizza?

You won't be eating much before 8pm I would think.

[MadHattersWineParty]

Oh god!

No dejection boxes :( all my gifts are wine.

I nicked a roast parsnip. They're on the side ready to 'go back in at the end'. What is this end??!!

[OddSocksHighHeels]

dejection boxes

Raid the fridge.

[planter]

Oh god still nothing?

Raid the cupboards. Who doesn't have nibbles on Christmas?

[girlguide123]

hahaha! this is cracking me up. I hope you get your dinner soon!

we ate at 1.20. I cooked, and we had been to church first...

[tethersend]

Christ OP- I'm in East London and the kids ate nothing, I've loads.

I'll leave the door on the latch, 'pop to the shop' again and you can come round and help yourself

[CheesyNachos]

Op, I hope you are eating now. Even if it Roast Host.

[ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]

Have you nicked the rusk yet?
Pop over, we have tons of food, turkey, duck, sausages, stuffing and the most amazing breadsauce...

[lorelei9]

FFS when do they plan to serve it?
At this point I'd just go to the kitchen and tell them either food is served now, or you will microwave the host and eat him with a steak knife and no pre stunning.
If I was in London I'd bring you some food.

[TendonQueen]

We ate out but have tons of snacks. Go and ransack the house for any crisps etc.

[MadHattersWineParty]

Oh tether and zing you are so kind!

The potatoes have just gone in now. I passed out on the sofa for twenty five minutes a little while ago. My DP was gifted one of those mini Baileys thing so have had the little chocolate.

We are all trollied.

[CheesyNachos]

Thsi reminds me of one time we stayed with friends for a weekend. They planned a Saturday night stew. They got pissed at breakfast, and then drank all day. Come 8 pm the stew was boiling dry on the hob. They were so slaughtered. Then they said 'Oh, we are beyond eating now, let's not bother' and DH (who barely drinks and was bored to the point of tears) actually served himself up some stew with a hunk of bread and ate it on the sly. He was caught in the act and the DWife went mad with rage saying how rude he was to help himself. DH went to bed while I listened for a little bit to a rant and rave about how rude DH was and how we could get our fucking arses out of their house.

It was pretty horrendous.

[lighteningirl]

Sounds like my house I forgot to put the oven on properly bloody smeg so turkey spent two hours in a lovely noisy cold oven whilst we walked on seafront only just eaten dh nearly ate goldfish. In my defence I did have mimosas instead of breakfast.

[howtorebuild]

Goldfish?

[ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]

I think the food goes in the oven, but Narnia is behind it and as soon as something is cooked those pesky kids take it out and feed it to Aslan.

[Whataboutreindeer]

It's like being at one of those interminable weddings where you get nothing for eons. Sounds wonderfully hideous. I hope you sucked your chocolate sloooowly. I'd make toast and risk wrath.

[PeaceLoveAndMincePies]

Dear god who wants to cook for nine hours?! Are they doing it in shifts or something?

[CremeEggThief]

Ha! My XH used to insist on doing everything himself and it would be 11 p.m. or midnight before our guests for dinners ever got to eat. Needless to say, I was too sensible to ever invite any for Christmas dinner, but I had to wait until 9 p.m. more than once!

[CheesyNachos]

TBH I would be weeping with utter despair.