Off Topic Yorkie's Xmas Wing(e)ing thread....

Feel free to dump your unwanted Gifts, cracker jokes, mountains of food, xmas socks, jumpers, relatives and hats here.....

Get them all out of your system for the New Year

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Anybody want:

a spare copy of A handmaid's Tale ...dont know why i got two...

a hardback copy of The Girl in the Spider's Web, the 4th instalment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series.. I have already read it.


a navy buff

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I bought for Mme not realising she already has tow and my sister also gave her one for Xmas... so that makes 4

4 boxes of cheap chocolates given to me by clients... I am diabetic and dont eat em..


etc etc

Well gladly we can now move into January sleepiness.,,,,

 

Sorry - being an atheist, as well as someone who objects to the annual pointless spending spree, I don't particularly subscribe to the Xmas present giving frenzy, either giving or receiving. What I do receive is generally well thought out, relatively cheap and appropriate - so there is no way I'm giving up my 12 month sponsorship of a tiger, case of Old Speckled Hen, case of Abbott Ale or various bottles of red wine.

I'd gladly give away the sweets - but they are all long gone...

 

I have reached the stage when people ask what I might like for Christmas and to be honest I cannot think of much. Some have now donated to causes that will give people a lift rather more than I need. However I have been given a pair of slippers that I quite liked the look of with their thermal lining. We do get some cold nights. Despite being the right size on the label, there is no way they will go on my feet. I now have to send them back to England by registered post which will cost more than the value of the slippers.

 

We have decided to send no xmas cards next year but will donate instead to the local Hospice. Surely xmas cards are old hat nowadays?

 

I did get a lovely bottle of

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Looking forward to it after the winter cold subsides...

 

If anyone wants the David Jason biography someone got me then you are welcome to it. Am sure the bit where Del boy falls through the bar will have everyone in stitches

 

Sadly we have good friends who recycle what they recieve..... we were somewhat a couple of years back when a carefully chosen set of aromatic candles ( ok. ok.) we gave them..... was re-wrapped and given to my mother at a new years party ...

 

I just chuckled out loud. That's just plain rude - you should at least have the good sense to give unwanted presents to someone other than the original giver!

 

We were dumbfounded...... their braincells must have failed them

But you have to laugh at it later!

 

Best presents...bottle of Basil Hayden Bourbon and an electronic keyboard
Worst...soap and a massive tin of biscuits which I rarely eat

 

Weirdest present was one the boys bought Mrs Andy, thus circumventing our no prezzie agreement. From TK Maxx got a Vivienne Westwood coat. It was a size 8 but you’d need size JJ tits to fill it. Really strange cut. Anyway, that went back yesterday. They got her a Viv Westwood blouse which fits well and is well made/designed etc from the little I know of these things.

 

Having become comfortable giving ladies a light kiss on each cheek, I am quite used to having my granddaughters offering their faces when I see them. I think they were giving me a message with the shaving gel and razor blades they presented me with.

 

Received vols 4,5 & 6 of Tales from the Vicarage, organised by Mrs S . The story about GT being god in vol 1 is just brilliant.

 

My present to me has just arrived

GT's autobiography..... I believe, I have seen it and it was good!!

 

I started reading it last night, a very good read, I cannot wait till I reach the Watford era. Promise not to skip a few chapters!!

 

Junior bought me a Chewbacca wash bag and Star Wars shower stuff. She thinks my really nice textured leather wash bag needs replacing with this fluffy monstrosity.

 

I have an agreement with my sons - they don't get me anything, and that includes cards. This doesn't just apply for Christmas. Their Mum bought a Fathers Day card for them to give to me in 2015, and it didn't even get taken out of its plastic wrapper. She did that despite having been told by them that I didn't want a card.

 

You've probably got me into trouble at home with this - to better understand,I just had to search online for appropriate JJ images...

 

I got a bottle of tequila, that'll do for me.

Here it is less comercial and the whole family just do one massive secret santa.

My gripe is that lasts 3-4 hours! ahahhahahahah