Tell me your unusual Christmas traditions?

[IndigoIsMyFavouriteColour]

Just that really. Someone on here mentioned they go to the cinema or go swimming on Christmas Eve which we are copying. So I would love to hear more unusual traditions to see if there’s any I would like to steal.

Christmas swims are great.. We used to do a boxing-day one, but then the outdoor pool stopped turning the heating on. I've got a very funny photo of my freezing son clinging to me for warmth as we tried our best to do it one boxing day.

I like traditions so I've got quite a few, but I'll give one that is unusual in the U.K. My family are half Chinese, and while China doesn't celebrate Christmas, it does have one tradition which I still do with my son. It is traditional on China to give and receive apples on Christmas eve. For me its become just a nice little tradition on Christmas eve morning, that my son has a little Chinese Christmas apple bag, and I put a nice apple in there, and he gets excited, and munches away.. He swears the apples are special and better than normal apples (they aren't...) Nothing commercial or over the top, just a cute apple eating moment of calm.

Samosas. I live in the.midlands, my brother is in Cornwall. My parents, now just my dad stays over with me before driving to my brother's.

One year I sent some samosas, they went down well and now are expected.