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  • #92
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    The Late Late Toy Show....even if I am nearly 30! It's the tradition of it.

    Also the first few bars of the Coca Cola ad and the first bong of the Guinness ad.


  • #93
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    A few others I forgot;

    The Snowman....we try to watch it together as a family every year. I always get excited when I hear Walking in the Air.

    The smell of my Mother's christmas pudding ( a recipe handed down from my grandmother and greatgrandmother) and the first glass of my Father's Mulled Wine.


  • #94
    cassid
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭cassid


    Chocolate Advent calendar.

    It's just great for getting children out of bed in the morning for school, you swear they were deprived of chocolate all year long


  • #95
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    The swim on Xmas Day in Salthill.
    The atmosphere is absolutely amazing.


  • #96
    Gaygooner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Gaygooner


    The row at Dinner...


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  • #97
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,130 ✭✭✭screamer


    The fridge rammed full of food and trying to squeeze the trifle in and praying it sets properly. The smell of the sage stuffing and the streaming eyes from the onions. roses for breakfast and chrstmas eve mass. The open fire and doing santa wrapping with my sister and a glass of wine. And lastly the yearly tug of war about where we spend Christmas day.


  • #98
    Brianderunner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭Brianderunner


    - That first pint on irish soil when I land off the plane
    - Pints in the local on xmas eve and meeting all your mates from school etc
    - Arguing with the sisters who insist we watch Downton Abbey every bloody year!
    - Being quite disappointed with the presents I get every year
    - Asking what have they done to the roses every year
    - Sport - racing, football, NFL, singing along to "chase the sun" while watching the darts!


  • #99
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,714 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    screamer wrote: »
    The fridge rammed full of food and trying to squeeze the trifle in and praying it sets properly. The smell of the sage stuffing and the streaming eyes from the onions.

    Oh my god, the smell of the stuffing, it's amazing!! So Christmassy great call!
    Brianderunner wrote: »
    - Sport - racing, football, NFL, singing along to "chase the sun" while watching the darts!

    Oh hell yesh!


  • #100
    northgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭northgirl


    The folks nodding off on the couch around 8pm :D


  • #101
    Sunny Dayz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,298 ✭✭✭Sunny Dayz


    Someone getting killed off on Corrie and/or Eastenders. I don't watch those soaps anymore but I'm usually in one of our parents house's for Christmas and they would watch it so it's my yearly catch up! But then I tend to annoy my mum or mum in law by asking: who's he/she, where's [person who left the show six months ago], are so and so broken up, since when did they start seeing each other etc etc...


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  • #102
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Brussel Sprouts !!

    And I actually like them, think I'm the only one in my family that does ....
    and this ! :)



  • #103
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Sunny Dayz wrote: »
    Someone getting killed off on Corrie and/or Eastenders. I don't watch those soaps anymore but I'm usually in one of our parents house's for Christmas and they would watch it so it's my yearly catch up! But then I tend to annoy my mum or mum in law by asking: who's he/she, where's [person who left the show six months ago], are so and so broken up, since when did they start seeing each other etc etc...


    hehe, only time I watch it aswell ... but always love the Eastenders christmas fights !!!


  • #104
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Saturday post!


  • #105
    vagazzled
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭vagazzled


    Our Christmas Movie- Tim Burtons wonderfully animated "Nightmare before Christmas"
    Songs- not the usual drivel- particularly 'Frosty The Snowman" after taking a few retail jobs in christmas pasts.
    I prefer The Ramones -Happy Christmas I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight' or Shane McGowns beautiful 'Christmas Lullaby" Have a Punk Xmas!


  • #106
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Quality Street.
    I know lots of people slag 'em off, saying the chocolate's terrible and the centres are horrible, but I grew up in a house where Quality Street were purchased every Christmas and they were opened on Christmas Eve.
    I've always loved them and they're just traditional for me.

    Pringles are another Christmas must-have in our house.
    Yes, we buy them during the year, but buying two or three tubes in the Christmas shop, along with some peanuts, is another things we have to have.

    Oh and lots of wine!


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