[Suzanne rose]

Growing up in the 60s with an old concrete tank stand.. mum was thawing out the xmas Turkey on it... we were having ALL the family over for dinner. Mum told me to go get the Turkey but I yelled out that it wasn't there. She didn't believe me.. muttering that the "bloody thing can't fly away"... she came out to look... AND IT WASN'T THERE.... because..... Barney... our old Labrador had stolen it and dragged it to the lawn where he had just started gnawing on it.... now this is back in the day where shops were shut for days over Xmas. We had no other option but to give it a good wash and cut off the little chewed bit... everyone tucked into it... none the wiser.... good ole Barney... as mum said.. cooking kills any germs

 

[Chrissyfs]

My parents would take my 3 sisters , brother and can't forget me. A week out from Christmas Day would take all of us to Myer in Queen Street Brisbane CBD to look at all the Christmas windows with all the wonderful displays. After that it did feel like Christmas. Well, Myer has gone and so has the wonderful window displays.But Christmas is still here.

 

[Jules57]

So many wonderful stories and a few sad ones. Loved the babies, the bakers even the smacked bum. Wasn’t sure how to like them. For me I fell asleep under the Christmas tree about 18 yrs old, came home from midnight mass to my husband and brother TRYING to put a trampoline together half cut but they managed it! Merry Christmas all

 

[BeautifulMousey]

A wonder the rats didn't choke on the threepences. They couldn't chew them could they

Sorry Thecla. I couldn't resist. Can't do that to anyone round here cause there ain't nobody round here. So you're the only lot I can do it to, but to most of you it is just a joke. To some others I a serious

 

[BeautifulMousey]

Keeping your special memories of your wife is a gift in itself.

Yes I know what you mean. My daughter passed in July but she hung herself aged 44 never saw it coming. Take care and all the best
Sincerely
Beautifully Mousey

 

[BeautifulMousey]

Keeping your special memories of your wife is a gift in itself.

Sorry Iggydi. Condolences

 

[BeautifulMousey]

We were frightened of getting blasted from one of these eggs that had not explode yet. Salad without our boiled eggs. Ruined that salad but couldn't wait for the next one with someone else volunteering to cook the eggs not me.of course everytime we had a salad and the exploding eggs was forgotten and I was given the job of cooking the eggs again it was ok till the eggs exploded again. Don't know why they didn't trust me again

Guess what. I boiled some eggs for a salad for myself and my eggs didn't blow up thankfully but my bloody telly did and it wasn't anywhere near the eggs

Two legged or four legged. Could have been after the three pences

 

[BeautifulMousey]

My parents would take my 3 sisters , brother and can't forget me. A week out from Christmas Day would take all of us to Myer in Queen Street Brisbane CBD to look at all the Christmas windows with all the wonderful displays. After that it did feel like Christmas. Well, Myer has gone and so has the wonderful window displays.But Christmas is still here.

I loved the Myers window, they were done up so beautifully, our Myers is if it's still there in was in Bourke St Melbourne. It was really a sight to see. Loved that Myers Windows. That is something to remember

 

[BeautifulMousey]

So many wonderful stories and a few sad ones. Loved the babies, the bakers even the smacked bum. Wasn’t sure how to like them. For me I fell asleep under the Christmas tree about 18 yrs old, came home from midnight mass to my husband and brother TRYING to put a trampoline together half cut but they managed it! Merry Christmas all

Yes same to you and your families. Take care and have a wonderful time.

 

[BeautifulMousey]

I hope you win this completion, if by a miracle I win I will give it to you.

You really deserve this win

Thank you Suzanne Rose. I really appreciate that but if you win it, it is because you deserve it. Just had to buy myself a TV for Christmas because my TV did blow up. Nothing to watch till the new one arrives. Take care Suzanne Rose. And I wish you and your families the very best for Christmas

 

[BeautifulMousey]

So many wonderful stories and a few sad ones. Loved the babies, the bakers even the smacked bum. Wasn’t sure how to like them. For me I fell asleep under the Christmas tree about 18 yrs old, came home from midnight mass to my husband and brother TRYING to put a trampoline together half cut but they managed it! Merry Christmas all

And the same to you too.

 

[BeautifulMousey]

I have had a lot of lovely messaged from a lot of people on here and I am very grateful. It is very heartbreaking. I had lunch with her that day and she seemed happy. Wa going to buy mate for her bird on the way home as she said her bird was depressed cause she was laying eggs that never hatched without a male. She did buy that mate on the way home and she texted me to say she bought the mate but said she was scared of him. The female bird was scared of the male. Not my daughter she was ok with this male she bought for her female.Then discussed dinner with me. Asked what I was having the told me what she was cooking the boys for dinner. Her son and her partner. Next morning I got a phone call from another daughter saying. Mum Laura hung herself last night. They revived her but the doctors said they feared she had no brain activity and that they didn't think it was survivable. They had her on life support and a decision was made to donate her organs. Someone donated organs when my son needed new lungs but unfortunately a few weeks later his body rejected the lungs and he died before any more became available. The transplant team told us that her heart had been successfully transplanted as well a her left lung and both her kidneys went to two people who had been on dialysis for years. Anyway I hope those four people get to live a successful life.

Yes I did forget but her corneas were going to be transplanted in the coming weeks and they had her tissues to go wherever needed. Don't know what happened with them. She only had the one son, didn't want anymore children because she was a carrier of Cystic Fibrosis and didn't want children born with it. Her partner was also a carrier so her chances of having a child with it was to high for her to try having more.

 

[sloane2]

Settling down to the backyard Christmas match and one rule was if you hit Uncle Ken you were out.
Guess what? yup Uncle Ken got hit and didn't drop his beer - the kids weren't concerned if he was ok - justs that the batter was out

 

[BeautifulMousey]

Two legged or four legged. Could have been after the three pences

Come to think of it, were the threepences left behind or did they go too.

 

[Hirst1]

Going into labour a month early on Christmas Eve just as we finished putting the presents under the tree.
Our youngest daughter was born at 10 30 am on Christmas morning.
So at Christmas we firstly celebrate her Birthday with her gifts, then open the Christmas gifts.
She has a birthday party with family and friends a few days early

 

[RieTreesSilver]

My Birthday is on Christmas Eve, last year my daughter had covid, which she “kindly’ passed on to me, not a birthday present I wanted!! I did open my birthday presents, but I was too ill to be bothered to open my Christmas presents, so we had Christmas dinner a week late!!
yes I do get two lots of presents, I’m spoilt that way

I have a younger sister born on Christmas Eve - the best Christmas present in the street that year and still the best Christmas present over 50 years later. and like you she always had birthday presents wrapped in birthday paper and Xmas presents in Xmas wrap.

 

[Barbara V]

I loved all my Christmasses especially the ones I had before my mum passed away when I was 9. The one I remember most was when I married and cooked my first Turkey wasn't until it was ready and my husband started carving that I had cooked the plastic bag that was still inside the turkey containing the neck and other bits. Reason I didn't know was my aunties I had lived with had fresh birds but they did the plucking and cutting themselves

 

[BeautifulMousey]

I have a younger sister born on Christmas Eve - the best Christmas present in the street that year and still the best Christmas present over 50 years later. and like you she always had birthday presents wrapped in birthday paper and Xmas presents in Xmas wrap.

What was your sister wrapped in when she was born

 

[RieTreesSilver]

What was your sister wrapped in when she was born

A bunny rug made by her Nanna

 

[BeautifulMousey]

A bunny rug made by her Nanna

No No. She was wrapped in her birthday suit
That would have been nice