Anyone else have no fucker who wants to bubble with them over Christmas?

[EleanorRising]

We live a couple of hours drive away from both our families but there and back in a day is doable.

Text from FIL: "love you all, not meeting up with anyone til vaccinated against this bugger. Will transfer £££. See you on the other side"

Text from MIL (they're divorced) "Jeff and Joan are bubbling with us and bringing Joan's mum so that's our bubble sorted. Easter's looking promising though"

My sisters will spend Xmas day with their in-laws so that's their bubble for the 5 days.

Anyone else not been inundated with requests?

My parents aren't seeing anyone (due to vulnerabilities). We're already in a support bubble with MIL so will have her over for Xmas but won't be seeing my siblings or nieces/nephews etc as they want to see their in-laws who also want to see their other child. Friends are also in bubbles with close family so there's no one else asking us to join them. All fair enough.

Would be tempted to ask your DMIL for what Easter is promising.

Your family sound very sensible and responsible OP. Look forward to many future happy Christmases with them. They have the right attitude.
(unlike those who behave like turkeys voting for Christmas..)

You lucky bastard. Enjoy getting pissed in your PJs at 9am.

I might suddenly develop a cough on Xmas eve...

I think we will be on our own. DH and I and DS home from first year in uni.

We did invite MIL before these bubbles were announced as didn’t want her on her own. Plan was for us 3 to isolate for two weeks and she is on her own and pretty much shielding. I was going to drive to get her (3 hours) and stay the night and drive her here and do the reverse after Xmas. But her niece has invited her. She seems happy enough with that.

My family are all in Ireland. So won’t be seeing them. Sis and BIL normally come to us for New Year but I don’t think that will happen.

As BoJo helpful Torysplained, viruses don't take Xmas off

Torysplained

I know, I know. It would have been nice if just one fucker had wanted to bubble with us, then we could have taken the moral high ground and declined!

I'm on my own for Xmas Day - no parents alive, and aunt and uncle who I usually go to are bubbling with their two daughters to make the three families. Newish boyfriend is bubbling with his kids, his ex and his mum (they don't know about me yet). Friends with families are bubbling with their families. So looks like it's just me, a plate of beef carpaccio, a bottle of bubbly and the telly for the bubble period.

We’re keeping it just the 5 of us this year. We usually have a huge Xmas at my parents with siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins etc. This is it’ll just be us and we will walk over to my parents after lunch and maybe sit in their garden for a bit, depending on the weather. I don’t feel comfortable going in as dc are at school and dh and I work. My parents and sister are all type 1 diabetic so they’re being extra cautious.

I’m actually looking forward to having a quiet one as I’m the main cook so usually spend all Xmas eve until boxing day in the kitchen. This year I’m ordering everything from m&s so I don’t have to cook at all.

Us too. We have three kids in three schools, and two are teens who have worked out the absolute limits of how to socialise (big groups outside, small groups in cafes, camping - they tell me they don't share tents but I am suspicious).

We're too exposed for a bubble. We tried one last summer, and brought the bubble down twice with normal child fevers. Who needs the stress of maybe infecting others?

Does your FIL want to be my FIL? He sounds great!

My family are all old people now so we're not bubbling with any of them. No one is alone so that makes it easier, but I have been inundated with texts from school mum's this morning asking if we can want to visit on the 23rd or 24th and then have a lunch on boxing day with the kids etc as they are in the same situation as us and not seeing any relatives. Not sure how to handle it without causing mayhem at the school gates.

Long term bubbled with PiL, though I'd prefer it if it was just the 3 of us.

My parents miss us but for health reasons they cannot join us.

I'm secretly hoping MIL will choose to bubble with Bob and Sue or whatever her mates are called and SIL, so we can stay in our PJs until noon and do 'common' things like opening our presents in the morning.

I've got to admit this bubbling thing is a great way of getting out of seeing Auntie Esther and her cats, and there's no rushing around from house to house. I'm pretending to be very sad about it.

I'm impressed people are following rules. We are simply going to break them. With divorced parents, siblings, half siblings, step siblings, widowed grandparents on their own. We're just going to have to break it

I would have loved all this a few years back and could have told my mil , sorry we can't come over this year! They would have gone mad! All our parents are no longer here, so I've been saved the stress of all this. I can imagine there will be many unhappy people this Christmas though. It is sad really especially for the close families who actually all like each other.

The fewer people who meet up the better for the rest of us. Let's avoid the third wave, eh?

Ill be spending it just me and baby ds and a turkey to feed 18 because i looovee Turkey and i wont have to share! Id rather be alive than see anyone over Christmas so i dont get why the government have approved this

If Joan’s mum is already in a bubble with them she counts as part of their household so you MIL would have room for you too.

We are bubbling with the cat. Suits us!

@nevermorelenore is your mil called rita?

@Gettingthereslowly2020

I've had no one to bubble with all along so I'll definitely be alone at Christmas

Me too. No change there then.

Same here! Oh well, looking forward to a quiet Christmas and no rushing around as usual.

SMUG ALERT -

I don't 'do' Christmas, so will be seeing no one as usual

@IndiaMay

Or you can do what everyone else is having to do which is choosing a few and do it in such a way that no one is left alone if at all possible.
It's literally just a few more months until this will all be over. You cant just follow the rules for own christmas? People managed it over Easter and Eid and those are much did important religious celebrations.

We don't live in the same country as family so it's just the two of us (thank feck!)