...go away without telling them?
Seriously, my father likes to celebrate Christmas in an aggressive strop, and I am sick of mending door handles and plaster. Not a fab example for the kids really, either.
My mother likes to get Christmas out of the way early, so starts eating dinner around 10.00, on her own if need be. Then with that out of the way she is free to needle my dp and make dispraging comments about his family for the remainder of the day.
my brother retires to the bathroom with a 2 l bottle of diet coke and a copy of "Which Model Aeroplane" and stays there all day.
Alright, I am a cow, but I said I wanted a quiet family christmas this year, just the 4 of us. No rows. Just us having fun.
So they have rented a cottage a mile away and are just going to pop in for the day.
Am thinking Edinburgh is nice this time of year. Or I have a friend in Oban.
Scale 1-10. where 10 is very wrong and 1 is ah sod it, pls?