Hi John, Rosemary & Sheila All the meals sound delicious it's setting the table on Christmas that I love with the crackers etc I do a lot of craft and I bought a die to make crackers but didn't know where to get the wee banger bi for the middle they are more like an ornament but they look snazzy.
The weather here is terrible we've got the rain with the cold and it's miserable and the people are running about mad as if it's the last day on earth buying food etc. Remember all our shops used to open at Christmas it was at the new year we celebrated more, and ad to buy so many loaves and milk incase you run out of it
Then they didn't have the big supermarkets in my days
When I came out of chapel this morning it would have blew you of your feet but then that would take some doing with me they would need Finieston crane to lift me
no only joking!!
I, like John used to have all my 3 sons and 2 daughters their better halves and all the grandweans so it was some fete but I loved it, now I go to their houses.
My daughter doesn't buy turkey she is into all these fancy foods but she is a great cook so I can't complain.
I'll get up and go to half past nine mass then have my breakfast and then the family will come up with the prezzies and then we'll go down to my oldest daughters so I am looking forward to it.
Some of them will not have a drink so that they can run the "old yins" hame at nightime
Went into the "bookies" on Thursday to put my Irish lottery on and said I think I'll do the same numbers on the 49's for some of you who are not gamblers it is something like what they had in Al Capones days so you can either take 1 to 6 or 5 numbers so I took 3 and put a £1 on it and came up so I will collect £601 for my £1 nice Christmas present
Half of it is away I bunged the family a few £'s and not forgetting hubby so he got a bigger "carry oot" than normal
If I'm not on in the next few days I hope the admin staff and all my friends on here has a Wonderful Christmas and a Bright and Happy New Year and "Aw ra best for 2014"
Amelia x
If the heat we are getting here is anything to go by, it will be hot. I have been here almost 40 years and I have never got used to having a Christmas lunch in the heat, it just doesn't seem normal 
they said the weather for Christmas Day should be around 24, so I'll take that as it's a whole lot better than 42 
