Some Christmas fun

shelly22

I thought it would be fun to name a few of our favourite Christmas things

1) Favourite Christmas song

2) Favourite Christmas movie

3) Favourite Christmas food

4) Favourite Christmas tradition


Mine are

1) a wonderful Christmas time

2) Christmas vacation

3) turkey

4) going for breakfast with all my family Christmas Eve

khalessi

1) Favourite Christmas song
The Little Drummer Boy Bing Crosby and David Bowie
or
White Christmas

2) Favourite Christmas movie
It's a Wonderful Life

Every time a bell rings another angel get their wings"
or

ELF

3) Favourite Christmas food
My mum's Christmas cake or good mince pies

4) Favourite Christmas tradition - there are a few

Every Christmas choosing new Newbridge decoration for the tree with the kids

Going to see The Snowman with the kids in NCH

I have a book which consists of 25 tiny Christmas story book decorations in it for the tree and we read one every night then hang it on the tree

Christmas Elf this I love as they get up to awful mischief

Decorating the house and tree stays up longer then it should




Just wondering do ye do Secret Santa or Kriskindle here?

I used to take part in it on another Irish website was good fun

Alan Smithee

Favourite Christmas song:

It’s beginning to look a lot like christmas..can play that super early and have already had it on much to everyone’s annoyance.
Driving home for Christmas.. real nostalgic and play it on loop on the road home from work on the 23rd or 24th.
Silent night.. not religious(still love Christmas!!) but just a beautiful song

2) Favourite Christmas movie

Elf.. a modern classic and can watch over and over
Die Hard (it is a Christmas movie!!)
A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart version). Have high hopes for the new BBC adaptation this year.

3) Favourite Christmas food
Gotta be the turkey
A bottle of bubbly (it qualifies)
Selection box for breakfast (a tradition since childhood)

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
Going to see Santa with the kids in the lead up to build the excitement.
Opening a bottle with the wife Christmas Eve when the kids are in bed.
Simply trying to make Christmas magical for the kids, they grow up so quick and Christmas seems to come around faster each year.

jellybear

khalessi wrote: »

Just wondering do ye do Secret Santa or Kriskindle here?

I used to take part in it on another Irish website was good fun

GREAT IDEA!! I run one for animals on the animals and pets forum but one here would be amazing!!:D

Also, my answers:


1) Favourite Christmas song
Merry Christmas Everyone- Shakin Stevens

2) Favourite Christmas movie- Home Alone


3) Favourite Christmas food- Mince Pies warmed with cream


4) Favourite Christmas tradition - Exchanging presents on Christmas Eve...I much prefer it to Christmas morning

Loughc

shelly22 wrote: »

I thought it would be fun to name a few of our favourite Christmas things

1) Favourite Christmas song

2) Favourite Christmas movie

3) Favourite Christmas food

4) Favourite Christmas tradition

1) Shaking Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

2) Muppet's A Christmas Carol

3) Cranberry/Stuffing no stuffing tastes as good as the Christmas stuffing

4) Ham Sandwich on Christmas Eve

Carrie6OD

This is a GREAT thread!

1) Favourite Christmas song
Fairytale of New York

2) Favourite Christmas movie
Elf

3) Favourite Christmas food
Plum pudding warm with whipped cream

4) Favourite Christmas tradition: too hard to pick one!

Snowman in NCH
Making the Christmas Eve boxes and watching the kids open them
Having a hot port on Christmas night with husband when kids are in bed

I’m lucky I have so many

shelly22

I love reading everyone’s different traditions they all sound so nice

Jude13

Not an easy thread.
1) Favourite Christmas song
Carol of the bells, it just stirs up something magical. But by no means a landslide win, so many others are great also.

2) Favourite Christmas movie
So bloody hard. Home alone, Christmas vacation or scrooged/Christmas carol.
I will go with Christmas vacation.

3) Favourite Christmas food
Ham. It is not very often we get ham, and when we do it's never any good (I have lived in Muslim countries for a long time). With some gluten free pork stuffing. Drooling here.

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
Meeting my pals in the same pub/restaurant on the 23rd of December every year. This year the date will change but the venue and the people will not.

TRS30

shelly22 wrote: »

1) Favourite Christmas song

2) Favourite Christmas movie

3) Favourite Christmas food

4) Favourite Christmas tradition

1- Fairytale of New York

2- National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

3- Stuffing mmmmmmmm

4- Tough one! - in last few years writing and leaving out letters for Santa

otnomart

shelly22 wrote: »

I thought it would be fun to name a few of our favourite Christmas things

1) Favourite Christmas song

2) Favourite Christmas movie

3) Favourite Christmas food

4) Favourite Christmas tradition

1. Have got three and can't choose right now:

Fairytale of NY; Driving home for Christmas and 2000 Miles


2. It's Wonderful Life - but I am happy with a lot of 80s and 90s movies that have got a Christmas scene in them, like You've Got Mail for example


3. I only ever had a few Irish traditional Christmas Dinners and from memory I have also got to say: stuffing !
Actually, I wonder why you guys don't just cook a huge loaf of stuffing, with a couple of slices of turkey on the side !


4. Too many ! One is admiring Christmas Cribs

tusk

Wow. Tough one.

1. Little drummer boy (off the top of my head, there are probably others, but i'll need a think)

2. Miracle on 34th street

3. My annual forray into dessert making for christmas day - Pear and Raspberry meringue tartlets :P

4. Don't have many traditions I can think of. We're trying to make our own. Maybe telling each other that we don't want anything and there's a limit of one present, and then both of us completely disregarding that anyway hahahah. I also love that we buy each other christmas jammies and put together a christmas eve box with sweets and things to chill out with that night

pjdarcy

1. Driving home for Christmas

2. Miracle on 34th Street

3. Turkey and stuffing sandwich with mayo after a few drinks on Christmas night

4. Eating a selection box while watching Willy Wonka's chocolate factory

TRS30

otnomart wrote: »

Actually, I wonder why you guys don't just cook a huge loaf of stuffing, with a couple of slices of turkey on the side !

Now you're talking!

Slim Charles

1) Favourite Christmas song


Christmas wrapping


2) Favourite Christmas movie


The Santa Clause 3



3) Favourite Christmas food


Sprouts/Croquettes



4) Favourite Christmas tradition


Getting free cans and hot brandys off relatives

Jude13

^^Damn you with Christmas wrapping as your favourite song, I messed up and want to change my answer to that.

Slim Charles

Jude13 wrote: »

^^Damn you with Christmas wrapping as your favourite song, I messed up and want to change my answer to that.

I struggled for a good 20 minutes before landing on that!

Jude13

Im humming it now incessantly......."....but I think I'll miss this one this year"

Graces7

1) Favourite Christmas song

Little Town of Bethlehem

2) Favourite Christmas movie

Ah I do not really see films?

3) Favourite Christmas food

Too many! My Christmas recipe turkey dinner oh and roast potatoes... But everything is lovely! Just lovely!

4) Favourite Christmas tradition

More than one.. decorating the drive the penultimate Sunday before Christmas… Hug e star, tree on the gatepost... to wish all here HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Toyed with the idea of outside battery lights but a candle in a jar is as effective
Nine Lessons and Carols from Kings College, 3 pm Christmas Eve. It is the start of Christmas for me.
Closing the world away for the holy time

Calling "home" at midnight Canadian time.. a hands across the ocean for us all around the world.

NB I am a happy loner out here!

DvB

1) Favourite Christmas song
'Fairytale of New York' & 'Its the most wonderful time of the year'

2) Favourite Christmas movie
Its a wonderful life & Christmas Vacation

3) Favourite Christmas food
Mince Pies, Christmas Pud, Baileys whipped cream

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
All of it, the build up, the decorations, the lights, the food, the gifts, the socialising, the people, everything

Slim Charles

DvB wrote: »

1) Favourite Christmas song
'Fairytale of New York' & 'Its the most wonderful time of the year'

2) Favourite Christmas movie
Its a wonderful life & Christmas Vacation

3) Favourite Christmas food
Mince Pies, Christmas Pud, Baileys whipped cream

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
All of it, the build up, the decorations, the lights, the food, the gifts, the socialising, the people, everything

You really stuck your neck out on the line there !!

DvB

Slim Charles wrote: »

You really stuck your neck out on the line there !!

Your point being?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Song: Driving home for Christmas - for personal nostalgic reasons. And Oh Holy Night in memory of a dear friend who sang it beautifully.

Movie: Difficult. Perhaps It's a Wonderful life at a push.

Food: Our Christmas Pudding, closely followed by mince pies.

Tradition: Lighting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve as a welcome to strangers. My parents did it, we do it, and our children now do it. It's lit by the youngest person in the house on the night.

TRS30

Solomon Juicy Handbag wrote: »

Tradition: Lighting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve as a welcome to strangers. My parents did it, we do it, and our children now do it. It's lit by the youngest person in the house on the night.

Love traditions like this. Passed from generation to generation.

CheerLouth

Song: Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth

Movie: Muppet's Christmas Carol & Narrow Escape

Food: Sausage Meat Stuffing

Traditions: Now we are all grown up, we are making our own traditions so for now, it's going to my parents on St. Stephen's Day. When we were kids, we used to always go up to my Grandparents on Christmas Night with all my aunts, uncles & cousins. I was only thinking of it the other day and wishing we could have one more Christmas Night with everyone

Slim Charles

DvB wrote: »

Your point being?

Multiple answers to each question, just found your indecisiveness amusing is all.

aj89

1) Favourite Christmas song
Jona Lewie - Stop the cavalry

2) Favourite Christmas movie
Elf

3) Favourite Christmas food
Pigs in blankets

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
Leaving work after 2 hours on christmas eve, and the lot of us heading across the road for 3 or 4 pints.

DvB

Slim Charles wrote: »

Multiple answers to each question, just found your indecisiveness amusing is all.

As did others on the thread, but hey, delighted I managed to amuse somebody anyway. Happy Christmas!!

Loughc

DvB wrote: »

As did others on the thread, but hey, delighted I managed to amuse somebody anyway. Happy Christmas!!

I enjoyed your answers DvB and I can’t argue with any of them all great choices

nickynoo

1) Favourite Christmas song
Fairy Tales of New York


2) Favourite Christmas movie
Home alone

3) Favourite Christmas food
Ham and stuffing.

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
Meeting with the family at my parent’s house on Christmas Eve morning, for our traditional fry up.

Toto Wolfcastle

1) Favourite Christmas song
Mariah or Driving Home For Christmas. The latter particularly when I'm the bus home from work when I finish up for Christmas or driving to my parents' house.

2) Favourite Christmas movie
Elf. It's just such a classic.

3) Favourite Christmas food
Stuffing. My dad always makes extra stuffing when I'm home for Christmas.

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
Christmas Eve at home with my husband. We order something delicious to eat and crack open whatever boozy stout we've saved for the occasion and my husband gives me new Christmas jammies and we watch something festive (like Die Hard :pac:) on TV. We're only at home every second Christmas Eve but the beer and Christmas jammies happen regardless of where we are!

Mam of 4

1 , Favourite Christmas song ,
Little Drummer Boy .

2 , Favourite Christmas Movie ,
Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory .

3 , Favourite Christmas Food ,
Sausagemeat stuffing ! It's not Christmas dinner without it , to me anyway !

4 , Favourite Christmas Tradition ,
Christmas Eve , when all the family get together to exchange presents and spend a few hours together

Eleysian

1. Favourite Christmas Song
Little Drummer Boy (or Away in a Manger sung by the little ones in their school play).

2. Favourite Christmas Movie
Scrooge : A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim

3. Favourite Christmas Food
Bread sauce - made to my mother’s recipe. It always reminds me of her.

4. Favourite Christmas tradition
Continued on tradition since childhood of fresh coffee, croissants and orange juice. Also lighting a candle in the window.

Slim Charles

DvB wrote: »

As did others on the thread, but hey, delighted I managed to amuse somebody anyway. Happy Christmas!!

You took me up wrong way mate, wasnt criticising at all.

Autosport

1) Favourite Christmas song
Last Christmas, All I want for Christmas or Driving home for Christmas

2) Favourite Christmas movie
Home Alone, Die Hard and Love Actually

3) Favourite Christmas food
Spiced Beef, Mash potatoes, Brussels sprouts and parsley sauce

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
Myself and my father always watch the toy show together when I’m in Ireland

Peatys

1) o holy night by my kids school choir

2) Scrooged

3) 'Russian dessert' pavlova my Nana used to make

4) myself, my wife and the kids walking down to the postbox to post off letters to Santa.

Posy

1) Favourite Christmas song
Jona Lewie, Stop the Cavalry.

2) Favourite Christmas movie
Die Hard.

3) Favourite Christmas food
Stuffing!

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
Going to a Christmas concert every year with my family.

Aisling(",)

Favourite Christmas song:
Ive great memories of being in the pub on Christmas eve with all my friends belting out Fairytale of New York .I get excited when I hear it for the first time when I'm out and about.

Favourite Christmas movie:
A Muppets Christmas Carol. I watch it every year

Favourite Christmas food:
My Dad's home made croquettes. They're as big as tennis balls but fried in fresh oil they come out crispy and the mash inside stays lovely. My grandad used to make them then when he passed my Dad took over.

Favourite Christmas tradition:
I don't really have a specific tradition. I love catching up with everyone and usually there's a board games night in my house with the family at some point over the season.

cherryghost

1) Favourite Christmas song
Gaudete or Stop the Cavalry maybe, or Christmas Wrapping

2) Favourite Christmas movie
Muppets Christmas Carol; it must be watched every year or else, and Elf

3) Favourite Christmas food
Mince pies

4) Favourite Christmas tradition
Just spending time with the family and stop thinking about work really...

Loughc

cherryghost wrote: »

Just spending time with the family and stop thinking about work really...

TRS30

cherryghost wrote: »

Just spending time with the family and stop thinking about work really...

Amen.