Here in the U.K. there is a lot of pressure to be allowed celebrate a family Christmas in the traditional way.
Well, if you are over 60, ask yourself this question.
Given the choice, which would you prefer: to serve a 6 month sentence of house-arrest for a crime which you did not commit, or be put straight onto Death Row with only a 20% chance of remission?
If you are 40 or under, ask yourself this. Would you rather have one last full-blown Christmas with all your family, or look forward to a few more in the future with parents and grandparents by staying quiet in 2020?
I am blocking the chimney this year.
The decision about Christmas will be made by my matriarch sister .....
ReplyDeleteI will go with the flow
I've got a sister like that but she is a Jehovah's witness who was born on December 25th, so I don't have the problem.
DeleteWe are having a lovely meal for two cooked and delivered to the door. The kids and grands are on their own. Maybe they will find out just much work goes into a holiday meal.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope your delivered meal is not a Trojan Horse.
DeleteI have been a little cavalier with getting about, until this last go round that has choked up our hospitals. I decided I will not endanger Ruth, who will be 85 in mid December. I love her dearly; she survived being a POW in WWII, and an hand grenade, and I like her too much to be responsible. We will use the phone.
ReplyDeleteGood idea. I care more about H.I. than I do for myself.
DeleteThere will be holiday meals for two around these parts.
ReplyDeleteSame here. Business as usual, with a bit of Christmas TV thrown in. It's a Wonderful Life for instance. Every year I identify with George Bailey more and more.
Delete‘George Bailey I’ll love you until the day I
DeleteDie’..... as young as I was when I saw this classic for the first time George and this film crept into my heart and never left.
Haven't eaten turkey for years! Will dine in solitary splendour and phone the children.
ReplyDeleteI only eat turkey cooked by someone else. It reminds me of childhood.
DeleteI'm well over 60..well over...! :(
ReplyDeleteSo l'd sooner do 6 months house arrest..
And let death row wait..!
I see families of three can socialise,
from the 23rd until the 27th over Christmas!
Long distance traveling to be discouraged..!
So..l'm not sure if l shall see my daughter
and hubby over Christmas..as they live up in
the Midlands..! :(.
And, no, never have turkey, l enjoy my game,
so it'll be venison with a few other bits of
gamey wildlife, l don't shoot it, it's brought
to me deceased, then l can cope with it, l
won't dream of shooting any wildlife..People!
Now that's another matter..HeHe! :)..
No! Need to block the chimney Tom..Santa's
in isolalation...! :o).
Yes, I usually do game at Christmas too, also shot by someone else. Leave it to the professionals I say. It's not a sport I am interested in.
DeleteI see Nasty Nigel has been spouting again, along with his anti vac, anti mask band of idiot followers. How dare they deny us our freedom to go around infecting people at Christmas!
ReplyDeleteMy brother's old school friend has just died of Covid, she was 60.
All but one of my immediate family have caught Covid, luckily in a mild form. I don't know what tier our area will be in, but I will be treating as the highest.
DeleteIt's one day - not worth risking ourselves and others over.
ReplyDeleteI spent about 30 years ignoring Christmas all together until the grandchildren turned up. Now they insist on it for the sake of tradition, but they will have to do it without us this year.
DeleteWe shall be a twosome as well - we shall enjoy a meal that we enjoy much more than a turkey dinner.
ReplyDeleteIt is not long until Easter when we can hopefully enjoy a delayed get-together - the weather should be better, and with luck, we may have had our double dose of vaccine.
I have never looked forward to Summer more than I am now, but I am not looking forward to the economic devastation that will come with it.
DeleteI guess it depends where you live in the world. We are doing a family Christmas unless it all turns to shit the week before. Western Australia shut it's borders to the rest of the country and the world really early, so we are pretty much back to normal.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you are about to have Summer. The virus does well in the cold.
DeleteI am with you every step of the way Tom - I shall stay put and have already ordered a Christmas dinner to be delivered on the Eve.
ReplyDeleteI'm almost envious Weave. Sounds cosy.
DeleteThere will be a Thanksgiving dinner for two in this house tomorrow (three if you count George, our dog) and I imagine Christmas will be the same. We have very little family and I don't get along with mine, so it's actually a relief to not get together.
ReplyDeleteWe are considering a Thanksgiving of our own here in Europe, when we have finally banished the plague from our shores and we can wander blindly toward the next one.
DeleteTake responsibility for ourselves.
ReplyDeleteA few more words would have been useful for translation.
DeleteMe and my Sainsburys delivery man are celebrating Xmas in summer on the beach with said turkey, Aussie style!
ReplyDeleteSounds like the short intro to a 1970s porn film.
Deletewe are visiting nobody this year. we are having a zoom dinner in the evening on Christmas day. We are hemmed in here, smashed between the central belt of Scotland and the north of England. Both red on the map. Where we are it is clear. Stay home and be well in health and mind that you know you arent in danger.
ReplyDeleteHello Sol. I have missed you. Zoom dinners sound like space food from Star Trek.
DeleteNo get-togethers this year but we'll share photos and 'phone. There's plenty of time to party once it's safe to get together.
ReplyDeleteI'm worried now ! Our daughter, partner and grand daughter are coming Christmas Day and our son, wife and grandchildren are coming just to exchange presents ! I think we will re assess the situation nearer the time. XXXX
ReplyDeleteThat's all you can do.
DeleteGood post Tom.
ReplyDeleteSome people see this as planned psychological warfare that is going to cause endless damage to people's lives for a very long time and believe that lock downs don’t work...fact!
These tin foil hat brigade folks don’t bother getting their information for journalists, they prefer to rely on “alternative sources”, aka conspiracy theorists and former sports presenters.