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Offline audrey

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Family xmas traditions
« on: Friday 17 December 04 15:07 GMT (UK) »
Hi all as this is a worldwide community just wondered what things you all do at Xmas thats been passed down the generations .I have just got a table cloth out that has been used  in our family since  the middle 1800s it was made by my dads grandmother and came out in his family every Xmas day.When I inherited it in 1960 I said I would put it away safely and my dad said no please use it on Xmas day and I do .
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Re: Family xmas traditions
« Reply #1 on: Friday 17 December 04 19:09 GMT (UK) »
Audrey,

What a lovely thing to do!   Mind you, if it were my family it would be ruined very quickly - every tablecloth I own has red wine stains on it!   The more they drink the more they spill and the less they care!

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Re: Family xmas traditions
« Reply #2 on: Friday 17 December 04 19:19 GMT (UK) »
we always play Elvis Christmas songs !!        ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Family xmas traditions
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 18 December 04 00:49 GMT (UK) »
Strange as it may seem every Christmas evening my husband retires to the garden and has a bonfire, with all the christmas packaging.  All the boxes wrapping paper, etc., he just cannot abide the mess.

I must admit I find it rather strange  myself ?!?
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Re: Family xmas traditions
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 18 December 04 17:10 GMT (UK) »
We always make homemade sweets that we can give to people as pressies.... the favourites are always the peppermint creams and the dates with cherries!  :)
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Re: Family xmas traditions
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 18 December 04 18:01 GMT (UK) »
We always make the much-mocked fruit cake!   Family tradition...and it DOES taste good...especially the marzipan!   :D

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« Reply #6 on: Saturday 18 December 04 18:06 GMT (UK) »
Mmmmmm. CAAAAKKKKKEEEE. Yummy.....I love CAKE me.  :D ;D :D
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Re: Family xmas traditions
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 18 December 04 21:14 GMT (UK) »
Can I come to your house for Christmas Geoff? those peppermint creams sound de licious...  :D

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Re: Family xmas traditions
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 18 December 04 22:59 GMT (UK) »
Hi all
Our tradition is Christmas tree presents.  When I was a child we always had a small tree present that was kept on the tree till after tea on Christmas day.  When I moved up north nobody up here had heard of it, but I kept it up with my children.  My husband died 3 years ago on xmas day, and I have a new partner now, he comes from the south and had moved up north and he had always done the same with the tree presents.  Must just be a southern thing.
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