Hogmanae

[rookiemere]

This is an ongoing thread for Scottish mumsnetters - or indeed non Scottish mumsnetters such as myself, to comment on ongoing covid matters pertinent to ourselves, in a hopefully not too partisan and friendly fashion.

All the Christmas cracker talk reminded me of The Singing Kettle.
I remember watching a Christmas version and I’m sure the crackers were massive. (How i remember this I will never know)

So anyone with contacts to the Singing kettle and we can get the design from them! 😉😂

You’ll have had your tiers.... 😂😂

on a brighter note, a relative (well relative in law once removed) has posted that they've been told no board/card games as the virus could pass around on the cards/counters and dice....and I think they've to pull their own crackers but that might have been a joke, it's hard to tell anymore..

I'm not sure if hide the willy is also banned.

Oh, meant to say that relative-in -law once removed is in England-shire

Hide the Willy? Will need to dust away the cobwebs and decontaminate the receptacle first in this house.

Amazing title! Good call cismyfatarse!

Unfortunately the no board game thing seems to be actual advice from Sage . They've been taking lessons from the Fun Police here, presumably. That and "oh, the poor women won't be able to cope with doing things differently, so everyone else should help them out to make sure they do things safely". Which I'm not going to comment on...

So grateful to you all for cheering me up with those song titles I think Shite Christmas takes the prize, so simple yet says so much.

Stay (2m away) Another Day
Driving Home for Christmas (and getting stopped by the police)
Rudolf the COVID Marshall

*The document says: "Women carry the burden of creating and maintaining family traditions and activities at Christmas.

"Messaging should be supportive of women adapting traditions and encouraging those around them to share the burden and to be supportive of any alterations to adapt for Covid-19 restrictions."*

WTAF? Oh us poor women how will we cope? - this has brought on a case of the vapours, where oh where is my little lace handkerchief and my smelling salts....?

Ffs

Cmon you women

Get adapting them traditions

Be aware of the risk of spreading the virus by board games which involve lots of shared pieces - maybe try quiz games instead

Presumably we've to write down and hold up our answers so that someone can read them with their binoculars, can't have folk shouting out answers - i mean that's practically singing!

Scientists warn that, within households, one infected person can pass the virus to as many as 50% of the rest.

And what will I get the other 50% for Christmas?

on the subject of songs, and the singing kettle, every time Nicola tells us off, I think of Little Bunny FuFu

"If you don't behave...."

And back on the subject of Covid Xmas songs....

"on the 5th day of christmas, Nicola gave to me, You're back in tier 3!"

Never met my family then

Quiz games can turn into actual physical fights 😉😉😂😂😂

Jingle Bells, tier 4 smells

Actually on that subject maybe Nicola could provide us poor tier 4 bastards with some of those wee mini tinkly bells so that when we’re set loose over Christmas everyone hears us coming and knows to batten down the hatches. Just like in merry old biblical times.

Ha ha folks too many funny posts to mention.

Have we just to time travel back to the 1950s? Playing charades and poor housewife having to having to produce christmas?

Presumably we've to write down and hold up our answers so that someone can read them with their binoculars, can't have folk shouting out answers - i mean that's practically singing!

That's exactly what I said to OH as we heard the new roolz sorry suggestions from the esteemed medical experts

Crackers at 6 mins... Not 2m crackers though!

Shouting laughing having fun

You'll have has your teirs🤣🤣🤣

Brilliant just love it. Not really relevant but does anyone still talk about "going the messages"?

Apparently it one of the expressions that's dying out.

Catching up, where do the say "Women carry the burden of Christmas" you really are having a laugh.

Poor wee woman, OMG

Thanks @polarisation I looked but couldn’t find a video with the crackers in it! Obviously didn’t look hard enough!

Finishing holiday in fine style now in my car outside A&E since DHs arm has all swollen up, and obvs I'm not allowed inside in the warm. Apparently been getting worse over the day but chose to decide to tell me and that someone needed to see it 5 minutes before local minor injuries shut and after having a whisky.

Also listening to the gcc advert saying that it's your fault if your mum and friends lose their job.

Hope your DH is ok @WaxOnFeckOff? What did he do to his arm?
Hope you don’t have long to wait.

I had to take a relative to A&E a few months back. Said relative doesn’t own a mobile phone and I obviously wasn’t allowed inside so that was a super long evening as had no idea what was going on! I was eyeing up the car park considering how many laps it would take to run 5k, thankfully it didn’t come to that!