The Christmas festival is the biggest we have here. Just two days, eight if you happen to have time off work between then and New Year. A lot of the people I meet nowadays don’t look forward to it – they don’t particularly feel lonely, but it represents disruption from the norm, there is not much to do except for staying home, and not much to do when they do stay home. It represents unnecessary cost. Our supermarkets have had Christmas goods on sale since October, so they can tell you all about how much they try to part people from their cash!
Christmas here is our biggest festival, just like Thanksgiving is in the US. I can only assume that some people will feel the same way about it.
If you’re one of these people, you can at least give thanks that next week there will be some respite, although I’m sure things go every bit as crazy once we reach Christmas.
If you’re somebody who will be celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope you have a good time of it. Eat as much turkey as you see fit – there are plenty things worse for you, although I know a couple of bloggers will be licking her lips at my image – at all those sprouts!
I kinda like the Holidays, not for the food but just due to the disruption of the norm. Celebrating together, I’m looking forward to it. I hope I’ll be able to attend the festivities. Why are there Brussels sprouts around the turkey? Why would you eat Brussels sprouts, we never do! I know that you do because I once saw an episode of ‘Bottom’ where the sprouts were made with some ‘explosive’ consequences 🤣🤣
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Ha ha, can’t say anything against sprouts for fear of offending some readers!
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I’m not against sprouts, I like them. We call them ‘spruitjes’ or petits choux in French. It just strikes me as odd to see them as a more festive dish. 🙂
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They seem to have stuck as part of christmas dinner here. I guess like turkey itself. You know, you can have them at other meals, but mainly associated with christmas. I don’t like ’em, never did, hate the little bastards 🙂 Never knew the French, even just to avoid it on the menu, though I do like chou-fleur.
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Mary and I really like the last week of the year, the one between Christmas and New Year’s, because there’s no excitement going on. Just seven days of relative calm and quiet.
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Yes I actually used to like going into work that week, again because the peace and quiet allowed me to gt things done.
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