i love it and always have.
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im not in the slightest bit religious, but i just like the buzz off it all, but not too early
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(saying that we have got most of our shopping sorted) but i dont like to see decorations up in shops and tv adverts, 2 week before is a good start for festivities, but for me i still like the magic of it, i think its just the memories, i remember how i used to look at my nannas pop up cardboard christmas crib on top of her telly, and remember when i got a ghost train game and one year a plastic sledge with a brake on
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then when i got older i remember knocking off from work and going straight to the pub with my tenner and card of the boss everyone jolly, then getting a little too pissed and spending too much on the missues in the shops between pubs on christmas eve, and later Ewood mills
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phones: and now i love going to the Christmas markets, last year 4 days before crimbo, me and the wife was at one of those German christmas market things in York, supping mulled wine it was belting down with snow and there was a choir singing christmas songs and we both agreed it doesn't get much more festive than this, then went wined up outdoor ice skating
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and now i have my own kids the magic is still alive, my eldest 2 girls know the crack and want money for clothes
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but my lad 6yr still belives and will be writing his letter and will be tracking santa on the web all christmas eve, leaving his port out for dad, i mean santa. (the santa that comes here aint a big fan of sherry) and yes he has been spoilt rotten, but i cannot wait to see his face when he opens some of the stuff he doesn't think santa is bringing.
so my answer to the question is, its ok a suppose
i will admit to prob spending too much on the kids,but the most important thing is our family getting together, we will go to the pub christmas day and have a few drinks and some friends will come along as well as my mum and Jemmas mum and dad and it will just be a jolly occasion, usually taking the piss out of each others new jumpers :| then a mad anything goes party on boxing day.
this song really sums it up for me though, its quality
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q]White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin - YouTube[/ame]