I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

hoping you all have a happy healthy safe and enjoyable time with friends and relatives and spare some thoughts and time for those who are less fortunate than ourselves.

Trusting you will relax and recharge your batteries ready for a rewarding 2015....!!!!!!!!

Peace love and mung beans people......:d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d

Cheers Finky! Hope you have a top time with you family.

May the backyard cricket be fierce and the Turkey be demolished.

not sure if we have turkey this year, but we are having one of my Porchetta pork roasts so it will be good, some seafood and all the family....

same to you hope you have a great time and stay safe over the break

=d> and to you Bat, all the very best to the fam and a prosperous 2015.

Thank you very much, what have you planned??

Usual big 2days coming up, wife's family chrissy eve at one of the brother inlaws, between 20-30 turning up big fam.
Mine Chrissy day at my brother's another big long day, by then I'll be looking forward to Boxing day eating nothing and do nothing but recover :lol: but so thankful were all ok overall and still close enough considering to some and less fortunate.
I'm looking more forward to neglect work emails till Jan 5, fortunate have had another solid busy year and 2015 already starting the same, thanks for asking, yourself ?

Merry Xmas to one and all, may you and your families have a safe and Happy Xmas, and a happy New Year!

Thanks batty, right back at ya =d>

we are having a quite immediate family christmas, we have a large family and we are always the hosts, but this year i called it early so my wife can have a relaxed christmas, every year she pulls out all stops and raises the roof with and awesome spread, and she rarely gets to enjoy it properly making sure everyone is tended to....i always help and cook and do a large portion of the cooking and cleaning ....but by the end we are shagged...so this year low key just the wife and our 4 kids......and i have to work right through preparing quotes and projects for the 5th of Jan.....if i am lucky i might get the public holidays off.....

on ya joffmeister, what are you getting upto??? going away?? time off??

anything exciting planned.....???

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas lads n lasses.

Have a great Christmas everybody!

Drive safe, stay sun safe, and drink lots of water!

Christmas for us is the usual hectic day. Drive down to the mrs's for her family Xmas through the day, and then at my Mum's place for her family Xmas where 70-80 people show up.

I'll be on the kayak as much as possible over the weekend - apart from that, not much else planned!

You need to sort out your family time pv4.
My wife and I got stressed splitting the time between both fams on the day we worked out that many from my wife's side were happy to have Xmas eve dinner so as can enjoy the next with inlaws either ither but importantly can spend more time with both sides without having to split the day - has worked a treat for years !

Trust Heiny to screw the thread up with a tasteless gif :(

Bat - know what you mean on the crissy prep before hand, we have had my wifes clan more times than not, lots of work cooking cleaning etcetc yes I don't mind but as you mention nice to have a break from it all, going to brother inlaws is a welcome relief this season :)

We've always said when the Mrs and I have kids we'll abandon travelling to either, and just invite immediate family (her parents and her siblings' family, my parents and my siblings' family) to our house. But in the meantime, splitting up the day between the two families isn't that bad - it gives us a good excuse to bail out of events if they get dull and boring :lol:

Edited by pv4: 23/12/2014 09:49:55 AM

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all fellow forumites.
Love and kisses
Dr Colin

yer ok understand pv4 makes very good sense on the "bail out"......I'm sure most of us wish for this clause LOL........

funny i never thought you would look like that heiny...;) ;)

yeah chillin this christmas......been working 12 -16 hours a day 6 & 7 days a week for the past 5 months, bloody mentally exhausted.......

oh yeah boxing day..watching the start of the sydney to hobart yacht race and the test cricket, eat leftovers, drink wine, fall asleep , snore, fart and then repeat

It's all about the ho-ho-ho[size=1]ing[/size].

Merry xmas finky. Hope you have a wonderful time with the familia

same to you mate.......what have you got planned???

A extended family get together . Hoping to try to keeep our grandfather happy as we lost our grandmother two years ago two weeks before xmas .

Buon Natale a Batfink e tutti :D

A good portion of my extended family are leaving on a cruise the day after Christmas so we already did the family thing last Saturday. Means tomorrow will be pretty chilled with wife and daughter, apart from some quick visits to the grandparents.

you ain't getting any ho ho hoes with that look buddy

ah yes, well to be quite honest he has done well, a lot of times you see the oldies go in quick succession,

have a great day, any idea whats on the menu?

sounds cool, what you cooking for christmas feast?



Buon Natale a voi e la vostra famiglia McJules

Merry Xmas all.

WM

dunno ill find out when I get to my mums place .

Merry Christmas lovely forumites!! Enjoy the break with your close friends and family

watcha got planned???

same back at you

Off to continue my newish tradition of a very sloppy Christmas Eve. Venue of choice is the Winston, expensive as f*ck but hey, let's be festive!

Wishing a Merry Xmas Eve from the Ettalong Diggers club.

For some bizzare reason Iv'e decided to do this Cmas Dry. This isnt going to end well. 😕

Look up Victoria Avenue on facebook. Theyre currently carroling at the Diggers. Terrible voices. Would be better if they were doing It in lingerie...

Grazie! Making gnocchi for an entree and have a pork roast ready to be thrown in the oven. Made chili blue swimmer crabs for dinner tonight. The wife is very pregnant at the moment so I'm doing it mostly solo. Shouldn't be too bad I hope :)

Just family mate.

i am doing my home made porchetta, slaughtered 8 pigs a couple of weeks ago, made 4 spit roasters, and broke 4 up, made 15 kilos of old english sausages and german bratwurst, they are yummy, then i made 4 porchettas and 4 leg roasts...

making you own gnocchi or packet bought??? what sauce with the gnocchi?? sounds good....

don't you have to watch seafood with pregnant ladies these days???

have a good day

could be worse.....have a good day

Sounds amazing. Don't have the land to raise animals in suburban Adelaide so I bought my roast from Costco :P

Yep making them myself, packet ones have no flavour and are tough in my opinion. The sauce is from a large batch I froze months ago with oxtail so making the gnocchi is pretty much the only bit of work I need to do today.

Shellfish are ok and so are a lot of other fish in moderation. Have to say though, second time around we're much more relaxed in general about these sorts of things :)

You too mate!

i remember when we had our first baby, we were away down the south coast of NSW in Narooma, i wlked with a heavily pregnant wife and collected onion bags full of oysters, we had a nice reisling and a few dozen oysters, now we have been told that was very dangerous.......?

Merry Christmas to all. :)

Merry Christmas finky and all. Hope everyone has a great day.

You sure know how to put on a big feed. Merry Xmas to you.

I am utterly stuffed. Merry fishmas!