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ok so in the uk we celebrate christmas day, not christmas eve. if there are kids involved, they will be awake at 5am to open small gifts from santa and then by about 6am will have been unable to contain their excitement any longer and gone and woken up the rest of the family. then it will be opening presents in the morning, kids will have as much chocolate as they can stomach for breakfast, adults will generally have as much alcohol as they can stomach for breakfast. one of the adults will get stuck making the entire roast dinner while the other entertains the kids and any other family members that have arrived. more alcohol will be consumed. the massive lunch means that in the afternoon the dumb action movie someone has picked will be on to an audience of sleeping adults and disinterested kids. by the evening, someone might want dessert, but will be quietly judged while they eat it for somehow still having room for more food. extended family members will eventually leave and then maybe whoever is left will all play a board game until it's time to go to bed. oh and after the dumb action movie there will be a selection of festive specials on tv (like doctor who) which are basically compulsory viewing.
I love how this accurately describes Christmas for the whole 50 years of my life.
From a kid in the 70s to a parent in the 20s - yeah this is pretty much Christmas!
And it’s bloody brilliant!
This to a tee is how I picture an xmas day. Very much you only leave the house if you're going round to a family members house for the dinner.
I will add though, that the eve can sometimes have the out-of-the-house celebrations? If you're the type to have a go somewhere tradition, that will usually be christmas eve, such as carols, the pub, or anything like that, that's often xmas eve.
And then of course there's the boxing day too full or too hungover to move lazy day as well, where you subsist on the leftovers (because of course far too much was cooked) you turn into sandwiches or maybe a curry.
Alot of people like to go for a boxing day walk or have some other outdoorsy tradition like jumping into an ice cold river/sea
My family has always intentionally cooked too much so that we can have turkey, chips (homemade) and gravy for Boxing Day and turkey curry for the 27th.
It’s such a non-negotiable for them you’d think it had come straight from the bible!
Perfection. Don't forget someone makimg the same 'joke' about whether there'll be enough roast potatoes even though there has never been an issue the last ten times they've asked. Dinner will be at least an hour late due to the oven being more full than the entirety of the rest of the year. And the mandatory viewing of The Snowman. Plus someone will be embarrassingly overly tipsy before everyone else and everyone will have to pretend its fine and they didn't notice.
Pretty much. Hopefully there's someone hosting who actually likes cooking (me, as long as I can have Classic FM's carols on and sing along loudly).
It's often traditional to go for a Brisk Bracing Walk after lunch but before pudding, especially when there are small overexcited children. If there are only adults and some annoying relatives, the walk may be to the pub.
Also the Christmas Pudding has to have brandy or other spirits poured on it, then be set alight so you get blue flames for a couple minutes.
The best bit is Boxing Day. where you eat leftovers and watch films and sport and enjoy your new stuff, and nothing else.
Absolutely nowhere near enough booze involved in this scenario
sorry 😂 feel free to insert more booze where and when appropriate