Driving home for Christmas

[venta]

Last week, I invited people to swap Christmas traditions. There weren't many takers, so I present here a small selection of traditions anyone can choose from.

1. Read 101 Dalmations.
2. Buy a new bauble for the tree.
3. Read Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letterson Christmas Eve, preferably an illustrated edition.

(These traditions belong to huskyteer, lnr and me, respectively.)

Let me know if you give any of them a whirl. Especially if you're currently gritting your teeth for a Christmas with not-especially-compatible relations (in which case, my sympathy!)

I'm currently indulging in another Christmas tradition, that of being in crap traffic on the M1. I don't recommend it at all.

Comments

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I did buy a new bauble for the tree. I inherited some too.

My favourite Christmas tradition is having Stille Nacht sung to me on the way home from Midnight Mass; it was my mummy and now it's Colin.

[zotz]

Every Christmas while I was in Cambridge, I used to go up the A14 and onto the M6 at the junction with the M1, then turn off onto the A70 to Ayr. One year it had been snowing heavily and there was a really intense full moon. It was actually bright enough to drive without lights. For a few seconds.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I have bought a new bauble (and two others, as presents) but they haven't turned up yet :( Perhaps I'll get home from work to find the Royal Mail fairies have been.

Hope you get moving soon!

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

I found it tricky to volunteer a tradition, as my only regular Xmas tradition is to flee the country.

Then again, I always try and buy a bag of Bumfest at Aldi or Lidl, and my most recent tradition, (begun last year) is to buy the largest jar of mincemeat I can find to squirrel away - in order to make medieval mince pies after Xmas with January sale-pheasant.

[lnr]

£3? Sold. Will see if I can find time to actually read it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/101-Dalmatians-Dodie-Smith-ebook/dp/B0061QMR3U/

And for 99p who could resist:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Father-Christmas-J-Tolkien-ebook/dp/B004FN1QSI/

Probably not illustrated!

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be joining you in the traffic on the M1 tradition in a couple of hours! I suspect in opposite directions, though.

[rapperaddict.livejournal.com]

Reading 'The Dark is Rising' by Susan Cooper, watching 'The Box of Delights' and going to Belshazzar's Feast Christmas gig is about as Christmassy as I get.
Mind, I'm apparently going to have a go at the getting stuck, if not on the M1, on the M40 tradition as I'm off to see Carols by Candlelight at the Royal Albert Hall tonight. Sort of missing living in Edinburgh since I could just walk to them then. (Not the Royal Albert Hall gig, obviously. They also used to perform in Edinburgh)
Have a good Christmas!

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

We already have the new bauble tradition with the kids. We also watch Box of Delights leading up to Christmas, with the last part on (or near) Christmas Eve.

New tradition for this year (from cuthbertcross's brother) is Christmas breakfast of smoked Salmon, soft cheese on toast and scrambled eggs. Mmmmm.