Christmas!21
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Merry Christmas bro’s and broettes.
My whanau on Christmas Eve and the outlaws on Christmas Day. Plenty of food, laughs and hopefully very little COVID or politics talk!
Stay safe whanau.
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Hope everyone gets a great break and spoiled rotten and/or shitfaced without any grief.
Last year we went out to a local pub which was a bit exy at $115/head but made prep and cleaning up simple. This year we're back to hosting so the last few days has been a bake fest for Mrs TA.
Tomorrow is roast pork in the BBQ + whatever else she's got planned. Shouldn't be any family tension as it'll just be us + kids, Mrs TA's Alco Dad, and her brother whose kids will drop in at some point before their utter fluffybunny of a mum whisks them away again.
Mrs TA's mum is still in dementia care and only single visitors apparently - they've had a couple of cases of The-Infection-That-Cannot-Be-Named so the situation is pretty fluid. I'm not going, to say the least.
My brother is stationed in South Sudan right now, my mum is in rural Queensland which is about the same.
The goal for me is to be visibly supportive of my wife, get through the day, and not complain about the quantity of food we will be chucking away.
Roll on Boxing Day.
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Roast pork and picanha went down a treat last night. Champagne and red wine ensured I coma'd out on the couch halfway through die hard 2. I can relax and enjoy my in laws hospitality with a turkey lunch. Merry Xmas day wishes to all of you wherever you are
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@nta said in Christmas!21:
Hope everyone gets a great break and spoiled rotten and/or shitfaced without any grief.
Last year we went out to a local pub which was a bit exy at $115/head but made prep and cleaning up simple. This year we're back to hosting so the last few days has been a bake fest for Mrs TA.
Tomorrow is roast pork in the BBQ + whatever else she's got planned. Shouldn't be any family tension as it'll just be us + kids, Mrs TA's Alco Dad, and her brother whose kids will drop in at some point before their utter fluffybunny of a mum whisks them away again.
Mrs TA's mum is still in dementia care and only single visitors apparently - they've had a couple of cases of The-Infection-That-Cannot-Be-Named so the situation is pretty fluid. I'm not going, to say the least.
My brother is stationed in South Sudan right now, my mum is in rural Queensland which is about the same.
The goal for me is to be visibly supportive of my wife, get through the day, and not complain about the quantity of food we will be chucking away.
Roll on Boxing Day.
Indeed. Other half had planned a walk but I had to cancel cos it’s the first day of the Boxing Day ashes test and I’ll need a day of no people so she’ll go shopping and leave me to cricket and beer even though ‘New Zealand aren’t even fucken well playing!!’ ( her words )
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@jc said in Christmas!21:
Guess what I got for Christmas…
Stupid bikes.
Oh dear, you aren’t meant to do that!
Spent yesterday morning riding with the son on Coronet. Great tracks. Afternoon out the front of the pub in Arrowtown in the sun and a few gins back home.
No stress Xmas is our go. Everyone chips in work wise. Have a quiet gap in the day at the moment as I have cunningly stayed back from a trip to whanau in Cromwell. Had a swim in the river with the dogs and now just chilling until everyone gets back.
Masses of food and drink to get through yet. Goat, tomahawk steaks and salmon with freshly dug spuds (and apparently some salad)
Sun is shining, great day.
Thinking how lucky we are.Merry Xmas fuckers!
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@jc said in Christmas!21:
Guess what I got for Christmas…
Stupid bikes.
Dishes. Wanking. Porn.Obvious jokes all covered I see.
At least you didn’t Ed Sheran and break both arms, requiring the missus needing to wipe your arse.
See, glass half full
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@kirwan said in Christmas!21:
@jc said in Christmas!21:
Guess what I got for Christmas…
Stupid bikes.
Dishes. Wanking. Porn.Obvious jokes all covered I see.
At least you didn’t Ed Sheran and break both arms, requiring the missus needing to wipe your arse.
See, glass half full
Christ, I didn’t think I could hate Ed Sheeran anymore than I did but I stand corrected
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A quiet one at my mums house in Tuakau. My sons at his mums house this year so we skyped him. Got one kid here, my sisters partners daughter. I set up the home made water slide that we bring out each summer so she and my sister are having fun. We always go to the cemetery where my dad is buried and my brothers ashes were put too. Sit around and have a beer with them. My cooking job I put my hand up for was a cooked breakfast.
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Christmas Morning - and the perfect Meldrew Christmas present....
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@mn5 said in Christmas!21:
@kruse said in Christmas!21:
Got my bike back from the workshop yesterday afternoon...
So 25th-Dec - I'm plotting a full day's riding, ending in Taranaki at grandfather's place, who ain't doing well.
And reading this thread, with the mentions of delicious food and drink - particularly drink - I suddenly realised I'm going to spend all day riding, then get to my destination - without being able to buy any delicious delicious beer. I'm going to have to pretend to be pleased to accept a Speights Dark, or Tui.
Have I mentioned previously "Fuck Tui" ?
I might grab a bottle of whisky this afternoon, tuck it in the backpack, so at least there's something delicious, if not necessarily exactly refreshing.
Christmas lunch is looking like a BP pie.Go for Pepper steak at BP in bulls. I always have two…..as for beer, well I can’t help you there
Good call on the BP Bulls pie... but they only had 1.
I tried to get a second at BP Taumaranui, for comparison, but had to settle for some other bullshit
