Know More About Your Elves - #10 Freshpopcorn

namenotavailabl wrote: »

Hi Freshpopcorn:

As a child, can you remember any particular act by someone (a parent or relative or community member) or event which you experienced which made Christmas 'extra special/ extra real/ extra magical'?

Christmas Eve's in general.
Going to see Santa.
I used like the evening having a special bath with a bath bomb/ getting Santa's cake/coke/carrots for Rudolph/etc and then ligthing the Christmas candle with my grandmother.(She's dead now).

namenotavailabl wrote: »

If you were The Weather God, would Christmas Day be [a] definitely white in your area; (b) crisp and snow-free; [c] some other variant of your choice?

I don't like it being very icy/snowy in the days approaching because it can make Christmas shopping very hard.
I like a nice crisp cold day. I don't mind the odd bit of snow tough so I wouldn't rule out a snowy Christmas day.

namenotavailabl wrote: »

Are you planning on participating in the proposed Christmas panto podcast if we can get it over the line?

I am very tempted to do it almost certainly I will.

namenotavailabl wrote: »

Have you a least favourite part/ aspect of the 'official' Christmas period?

As I said in another post I don't like people working up massive debts due to over spending.

Mainly I don't like family feuding and trying to keep everybody at peace/apart. Having to think about almost every detail of the days that they'll be around one another and how to prevent a fight/argument.

I don't like the flap people make out of cooking the Christmas dinner.(It may because of the pressure the media/shops put on people).

namenotavailabl wrote: »

Do you carve the turkey or is it done by another person?

We have no set person to carve the turkey/ham. In our house it would generally be my mother. We'd generally set up everything in the kitchen counter and you get your plate and help yourself before heading to the table.

namenotavailabl wrote: »

Can you tell us a corny Christmas cracker joke?

Why was the snowman looking through the carrots?

He was picking his nose

Loughc wrote: »

Are you a hot chocolate fan? If so what’s your favourite one?

I'd drink it very rarely.
I used drink mocha's a good bit a few years ago.
I had a really nice O'Conaill 'white hot chocolate a few times.(There based in Cork).

Sundew wrote: »

Apologies to Freshpopcorn and the other elves whose threads I’m just catching up on!

So if you could get the chance to choose any lighthouse in Ireland or elsewhere to be a keeper in for a week...where would you choose?

Kind of generic I suppose but Hook Head!