Sign in here if you are NOT in a panic about Xmas and don't find it necessary to dress up in shiny clothes on the day....

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me

honestly what IS all the fuss about

It is ONE DAY

The shops are shut for ONE DAY (or two in some places I guess)

You CAN wear normal clothes you know, you don't have to look like Dame Edna

It is JUST A ROAST
Nothing to get your knickers in a twist about

its two days- and even on those two days you will be able to find a shop somewhere that is open! sit down relax and enjoy watching your children decimate the house!

And as for getting dressed up- dh is lucky if i get dressed

I used to work in the supermarkets.

It was ridiculous the state some people would get in. Anyone would think it was the end of the world the amount of stuff they were buying.

You would have tonnes of sprouts all week spilling all over the place and then people would go mental on Christmas Eve when they were sold out and start shouting at me and stealing them from other shoppers baskets.

When in checking alarms and stuff when the sore was closed on Xmas morning people would be outside seeing if the store was open and knocking on the glass if they saw me inside.

Only two or three days of year the place would be closed and they still hassled us.

glitter? huh?

i love a roast, we're having beef rib

new clothes?

dress up in shiny clothes?!

No panic here, but definately will get dressed up on all 3 days over Christmas, as its part of the celebration, and a sign of respect to our v. generous hosts - they've done all the preps, so I can have a lovely advent with the kids. Also, going out with DH on Xmas Eve, so will love dressing up for that.

should i order a turkey? Never have before. surely i can buy one this week? [free range]

My dh still watches Buck Rodgers just to salivate over her.

I have written one Christmas card. Bought 3 presents. Bought some prunes, thinking vaguely about some home-made prune and chestnut stuffing (I have dried chestnuts in the larder already). Have not yet got a tree (Saturday seems about right). I love love love Christmas but I loathe the panic, hysteria and frenzied shopping. People buying up the supermarkets this week are the same arseholes lovely people who cause petrol shortages.

Lol Swedes, I thought saving my xmas shopping til sunday was laid back, but I do have my tree up.

oh eric i feel so sorry for store staff come this timeof year...its like there is gonna be a famine..shelves are cleared! and peering in lol get a life..

mind you, their tills must love it...

me: mainly chilled train booked things wrapped party tomorrow and orf...

no shiny clothes planned this year ..but do dress for the day..

pinetree...perspired just reading yours! lol
take yer jumper off?...

I shall wear jeans and nice top. Not stressed about dinner as father cooking as he is great!

No, no stress here.

Anyway, surely shiny clothes are dangerous if you are doing the cooking. I kept wincing last year watching Nigella's Christmas show as her shimmering dressing-gown sleeves dangled close to the gas-ring.

(Anyone know why she was not on last night as stated in Radio Times? I don't mind Rick Stein, but he isn't as buxom.)

UQD - Deborah Meaden was on Dragon's Den!

Swedes - I don't get the connection?!

Lol, almost every thread I've been on there seems to be a Nigella connection just waiting to spring up.

I've never understood this. I can remember my mum flapping about "getting ready for Christmas" when I was little, and thinking, aged nine or 10, "why are you worrying? it always gets done every year. what's all the fuss about?"

I am emphatically Not Panicking about Christmas. If one more fretful-looking woman (and it is, gallingly, always women) asks me if I'm "ready for Christmas yet", I will most likely lamp her with a frozen turkey.

Not concerned re food - tis only a roast chicken, with the yummy addition of pigs in blankets.

I was measured for a new bra yesterday (it was the only part of the store that was nice and quiet!)and have been promoted to a 32DD fitting (eeek!). I'm sort of thinking my norks deserve something splendidly shiny to wear.

No brainer for me this year.

Stick on something clean. Go to restaurant. Eat food. Drink much booze. Pay. Go home and snooze.

Bliss!

Oooh - pigs in blankets and norks - get me, I sound just like Nigella!

my main panic is trying to secure a man to take me out some time over the boring bit between xmas and new year..

sadly the ones i keep attracting are not appealing to me or freaks

UQD - Totty on the telly.

You mean you won't all be dressed like this?

I think you should

(Nigella is in there too - dressed in aluminium foil. Lovely.)

yes that's all very well. i'm not flapping as such. and certainly will not be wearing shiny clothes.

however, roast dinner for 15 isn't quite the same as roast dinner for say, 6. and home made bread sauce, and cranberry sauce and banoffie pie for those that don't like pud.

so whilst not flapping, i am trying hard to be as organised as possible. which requires some slight wafting of my earlobes.

earlobes?