Today I've mostly bin...

[Bunnylump]

......... finishing eating the chocolate from my Easter Egg!!

My chocolate advent calendar didn't even make it to the 24th... I just watched Miranda, and she had an empty one too, so I am in good company...I am also as good as she is at falling over. However, I haven't been putting peanuts down MY bra...

[LAT]

I've been wondering if Chazzie has spent most of the day eating chocolate from her Easter egg, exactly how large was the egg?

[Bunnylump]

Yeah, you could have invited us round to help you, Chazzie...

[Laura]

My chocolate advent calendar didn't even make it to the 24th... I just watched Miranda, and she had an empty one too, so I am in good company...I am also as good as she is at falling over. However, I haven't been putting peanuts down MY bra...

I watched it too, even though I have the DVD. I've actually started quoting from it, and people just look at me as though I'm wierd, which I suppose I am....

[Bunnylump]

Ah, but weird is good, in my book. In fact, the weirder the better if you ask me.

[Laura]

Well, here's hoping the people at church agree, as they're getting bits from the Muppet's Christmas Carol on the organ tonight and tomorrow morning. There's nothing like keeping things traditional at Christmas!!

[clvrlad]

well i suppose 1992 is traditional now...

[Laura]

Oh, flipping heck! My childhood is 20 years ago!!! I feel OLD!

[kathlyn]

Oh, flipping heck! My childhood is 20 years ago!!! I feel OLD!

must be nearing the time when you can start the second one then

[MBH]

I've actually started quoting from it, and people just look at me as though I'm wierd, which I suppose I am....

We regularly quote from Vicar of Dibly and Dinnerladies in a bid to cope with life. So much wisdom in the writing [and of course at least one of these brings us back to chocolate advent calendars ]

Well, here's hoping the people at church agree, as they're getting bits from the Muppet's Christmas Carol on the organ tonight and tomorrow morning.

Brilliant - there's some great songs on there Marley and Marley. It Feels like Christmas. I particularly like the shortest bit of all - Christmas Scat

Today......... I'm flying around trying to get 1001 things sorted Christmas - [Who said "typical man"] - Too many other pressures at the moment, so we will do what we do and get what we get.

[Laura]

We're having 'One more sleep til Christmas' tonight and 'It feels like Christmas' tomorrow. I reckon there will be one person who actually recognises them, but she's one of my best friends and she didn't get her Christmas present this year, because they're out of stock on the Guiding website (Brownie Flipflops in size 7!) so it's a token gesture for her really.

[giraffe]

I'm in the middle of making a steamed syrup sponge for tomorrow's pudding. Then I think everything is done.

[clvrlad]

Oh, flipping heck! My childhood is 20 years ago!!! I feel OLD!

only as old as me...

[MBH]

Oh, flipping heck! My childhood is 20 years ago!!! I feel OLD!

Oh. BTW... I wouldn't start with lines like that with some of US around (or we'll set Brian and Ann on you]

I was involved in a quiz based around the year 1906 and the person born in a particular address in South Shields was NOT Stan Laurel (as I had answered) but Cathrine Cookson - to which all the local teenagers said "Who????"

[Bunnylump]

I don't think I ever finished my childhood. I keep waiting to become a grown up.

And MBH, for your lateness in Christmas organisation, I'll raise you my son, who suddenly announced at 4 30 today that he still needed to go and buy all of his Christmas presents...

Christmas is hard work, isn't it? I've been flat out all day. And I am SHATTERED. I'll await an over excited 24 year old leaping around like a puppy in her pyjamas first thing in the morning. Her boyfriend (who is driving her here in said pyjamas) is just saying nothing because he knows what's good for him...

[giraffe]

Well I'll trade you a snoring 81 year old for a leaping 24 year old if you like!

[SparkOut]

Ah, but weird is good, in my book. In fact, the weirder the better if you ask me.

That makes me feel quite a bit better, I should score pretty highly on the Bunny Weird-O-Meter.
Happy bouncy monkeys at 6am make the place more exciting, but it's wearing when everyone is full of coughs and colds.

[MBH]

Managing to do a Christmas dinner with 1 pan, 1 roasting tray, a cookery & a microwave. With some beg pre-cooked for me I didn't do a bad job in a strange kitchen.

Now I'm trying to get to grips with my main gift of an HTC Wildfire S android smart phone. I'm typing this on it FRUSTRATINGLY SLOWLY, but at least I'm here

Hope you all had a good day.

[clvrlad]

sounds like you had a good xmas

any way time for me to go to work...

[Bunnylump]

MBH you should be an expert on those already. That's what I've got - remember, and you had to work out how to set my alarm for me? Sounds like you're a proper candidate for I'm in the jungle get me out of here, or whatever it's called...

SparkOut, you are wonderfully weird, completely perfectly placed on the weirdometer. Exactly where I like you. Sort of weird enough to be a bit different and to be full of surprises, but normal enough to be a great laugh as well. Sorry to hear you are full of cold - me too, and I have had NO appetite at all. So all this food I've been slaving over for the past few days has largely gone uneaten, by me at least.

Well, it's been INTERESTING here today (and last night). Stoopid son come home with a gash on his head last night - because his best friend (who is also a clever s*d, studying medicine at Bristol, believe it or not) was really drunk and tried to aim a kick at someone else's rear (for a joke) and succeeded in kicking Dibble in the head instead. It didn't seem to phase him, but you know they say where there's no sense, there's no feeling...

Anyway the "sensible sister" ( who now lives with her boyfriend) got this comment from her boyfriend on facebook today:

"I was woken at 6am by a clacking noise. Was this the sound of the reindeer hoofs skittering across the roof, or of soot tinkling down the chimney as Father Christmas made a hasty retreat? No. It was the sound of my 24 year old girlfriend checking on the location of Santa on the internet, because she was so excited about it being Christmas day."

So. They arrived, and we all opened our stockings. Yes, we ALL had them. Father Christmas was very generous in our house. My husband then gave me a Radley handbag (very nice) and some hair straighteners. I knew I was getting these things because I was there when he got them. Next thing I know, he's bringing in a giant flat boxed package into the living room.

"You do like surfing, don't you?" He asked, ominously.

So, I took the wrapping paper off, and find a big surf board shaped box with "The Miami Surf Company" labels all over it. I decided my husband had lost his mind. I tentatively opened the box, and found...

an ironing board. (at which point I hit him with it). He then gave me another box, and said

"Well, I knew you'd love that one, so I bought you an iron to go with it" and presented me with an iron-sized box. Divorce very clearly marked on the cards, I opened said package and found...

a lovely new DAB digital radio.

We did laugh. Well, after my husband had reappeared from where he was hiding...