Alt: I want a nice relaxing Xmas day with just the wife and kids
We've 'entertained' for the past five years and I'm not even sure how we managed to get roped into it for so long. The compromise this year is having to go up to Blackpool to visit relatives for a couple of days after Boxing Day. Blackpool in the winter is quite peaceful so it hasn't worked out too bad for me.

A new liver would come in handy.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:46, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

With grandparents living over 100 miles away we have chosen to always stay at home for Christmas
Everyone knows where we live and if they want to come it is fine
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:48, Reply)

I think I've only spent christmas away from family twice in my life.

( girlinthehole, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:49, Reply)

I've driven to Featherstone a few times on Christmas morning.
We now just go on Boxing Day instead
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:52, Reply)

In the last couple of years before I left home my parents used to go away and leave me and my sister at home
Man, were we popular with all our friends on Christmas day?
At precisely the point in the day when everyone had had enough of their families, one by one they would come strolling in.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:56, Reply)

Capital! I'll bring the After Eights.

( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:58, Reply)

If indeed that IS the time

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 14:02, Reply)

If indeed you do go to Blackpool
you should burn it to the ground, there's a good lad
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:48, Reply)

My sister and brother-in-law run a guesthouse there so...
..yeah sure, why not? I'm amazed that so many hotels make a living just from being in the vicinity of some tall metal and widespread depression.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:51, Reply)

Please don't burn Blackpool to the ground until I have been to see the 'Comedy Carpet'.
After that, have at it as you wish.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:55, Reply)

Did you enjoy the gig Bill?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:50, Reply)

It was fucking brilliant
We got to right near the front and everyone around us was friendly and having a laugh. It was a knackering weekend but very much worth it.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:54, Reply)

I forgot to ask any b3tans where they were meeting up..
..so short of holding up a big sign of a magenta cock there wasn't much I could do to get my first meeting with the internet. As it turned out we just got there in time for the doors opening anyway.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 13:56, Reply)

No worries, we were supposed to be meeting Monty and Al beforehand but they both bailed, the great woofters.
So we ended up going straight to the Roundhouse rather than for a drink before the gig.

I thought they sounded fucking excellent, but was stood near the back with clendrix. I occasionally spotted Eldritch's baldy pate, though.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Nov 2011, 14:06, Reply)

The Cure tonight!
Bloody goths.
( thealternativefact, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 14:08, Reply)

There will be enough eyeliner and lipstick to stock up every London branch of Boots a few times over.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Nov 2011, 14:21, Reply)