The Martin WooHoodStock Thread

[DutchIndeed]

*wanders in*
*blinks*

*wanders out*
Back to the Strictly final where I've been voting like crazy but the lines have now closed and I'm getting nervous

*crawls out from under the bus*

Don't leave me alone with them!

[Luvnjoe]

*trips over Nad*

*sigh*

[Jumble]

*crawls out from under the bus*

Don't leave me alone with them!

What d'you mean? She's the one watching a silly dancing competition

Us normal people are watching Snooker and QI. What's your problem?????

And John Virgo has just said "It's amazing what can happen on a snooker table...."

Soooo true

Yes, I do have the t-shirt

[Jumble]

WooHooooooood!!! He's taken it down from 2:7 to the final frame! (now 8:8)

There was a time when I thought snooker was boring Ronnie makes the whole thing sooooo exciting

Edit: He lost, but only by a whisker Exciting Match

[Cagranosalis]

Good lord Jumble. You'd get on like a house on fire with my mother what with the snooker loving. I bet she's sleeping through it as I type.
(My mother, being...er...75, has reverted to sleeping 15 hours out of every 24. And when she is awake she's busy telling everyone how to run their lives... I've just volunteered to cook Christmas dinner with her this year. I wanted to cook it instead of her but, apparently, that's not possible on account of my finickety brothers all having specialist dietry needs - ok one's a vegan, another a vegie and yet another won't eat sprouts... I think I can probably cope with that but, meh, mother knows best. I know I'm going to regret it. )


*huggles woohoos just because*

*rubs Nad's knees* There there Nad. Children are supposed to bounce on the furniture. I positively encourage it.


I keep wanting to come play or at least be irrelevant on here all week but it's been so busy and there's always something stopping me. .
Hubby went out on his Christmas do last night. He came home, predicably hammered and who wakes up with the headache? Yeah, me... An all day blinder that had me reaching for the good stuff and lying down in a dark room I hate headaches.
Despite that I managed to pull it together enough to put up some decorations and a Christmas tree and now... screwit, headache or no I am having a wine and a mince pie.


*huggles woohoos again because I have nothing more to give*

[josiane]

*comes in all sad and crying* Stupid British public voting out Ali and Brian They were so much better than Chris and Ola

What d'you mean? She's the one watching a silly dancing competition

*looks indignant* Hey! It was awesome (until the end) There was kissing and everything!

Us normal people are watching Snooker and QI. What's your problem?????

Hmmm... let me think

And John Virgo has just said "It's amazing what can happen on a snooker table...."

Soooo true

Yes, I do have the t-shirt

*raises eyebrow*

[Regularamanda]

*huggles sad woohoos for dancing...and...err...the thing Jumble was talking about *

*hugs Cags for headaches*

*hugs rest of woohoos for awesomeness*

[Jumble]

Good lord Jumble. You'd get on like a house on fire with my mother what with the snooker loving. I bet she's sleeping through it as I type.

'Scuse me, I'm not quite old enough........... am I?

Sleeping through Ronnie snooker????? How could she?

(My mother, being...er...75, has reverted to sleeping 15 hours out of every 24. And when she is awake she's busy telling everyone how to run their lives...

Ah no. I might think it, but I never say it out loud

I've just volunteered to cook Christmas dinner with her this year. I wanted to cook it instead of her but, apparently, that's not possible on account of my finickety brothers all having specialist dietry needs - ok one's a vegan, another a vegie and yet another won't eat sprouts... I think I can probably cope with that but, meh, mother knows best. I know I'm going to regret it. )

Oh you will! Cooking 'with' someone is always a mistake IMO. This is one of the reasons that I am happy to ignore Christmas

*huggles woohoos just because*

*rubs Nad's knees* There there Nad. Children are supposed to bounce on the furniture. I positively encourage it.

In my defense, I've had about 60 children through this house and if I'd allowed them all to jump on the furniture it wood have cost me a fortune in replacements

I keep wanting to come play or at least be irrelevant on here all week but it's been so busy and there's always something stopping me. .
Hubby went out on his Christmas do last night. He came home, predicably hammered and who wakes up with the headache? Yeah, me... An all day blinder that had me reaching for the good stuff and lying down in a dark room I hate headaches.
Despite that I managed to pull it together enough to put up some decorations and a Christmas tree and now... screwit, headache or no I am having a wine and a mince pie.


*huggles woohoos again because I have nothing more to give*

Don't worry, you're always irrelevant

Wine is good for headaches......... if only for the fact that if you drink enough you'll forget you had a headache

Mince pies on the other hand... no thanks

[Cagranosalis]

'Scuse me, I'm not quite old enough........... am I?

Oh no, no not at all! She'd never thunk RDA for starters...

...er....

Oh you will! Cooking 'with' someone is always a mistake IMO. This is one of the reasons that I am happy to ignore Christmas

I intend to wind her up a kipper and get steaming drunk beforehand. My mother, bless her, absolutely hates alcohol and drunkeness. I suspect I am a big disapointment to her from time to time. Ho hum!

In my defense, I've had about 60 children through this house and if I'd allowed them all to jump on the furniture it wood have cost me a fortune in replacements

Well yes, I don't blame you! I only let Benjabubs bounce on our bed and that will stop when he gets his trampoline for his birthday.

Wine is good for headaches......... if only for the fact that if you drink enough you'll forget you had a headache

Mince pies on the other hand... no thanks

You know, it strikes me, minve pies are love them or hate them. What is it with that?
Luckily (or not) for me, hubby ate the last oneso I shall just have to console mysself with the strawberry creams from the tine of quality street. (Another of my mum's foibles was we were absolutely NOT allowed to start the Chirstmas food / sweets until about Christmas eve. As an adult who now buys my own goodies, I buy them and gorge them all straight away!
*sigh* yes I am still rebelling!

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g...m-2editweb.jpg

Woah, his hair is kind of long there?
or is it me?


Is it me or is PB an utter disaster area tonight? I can't upload anything. It's very annoying!


*waves to Amanda*

[Jumble]

Oh no, no not at all! She'd never thunk RDA for starters...

...er....

Oh, you mean she saw the light before I did?

I intend to wind her up a kipper and get steaming drunk beforehand. My mother, bless her, absolutely hates alcohol and drunkeness. I suspect I am a big disapointment to her from time to time. Ho hum!

Don't worry, we're all a disappointment to our mums I reckon

Well yes, I don't blame you! I only let Benjabubs bounce on our bed and that will stop when he gets his trampoline for his birthday.

Don't you believe it

You know, it strikes me, mince pies are love them or hate them. What is it with that?
Luckily (or not) for me, hubby ate the last one so I shall just have to console mysself with the strawberry creams from the tin of quality street. (Another of my mum's foibles was we were absolutely NOT allowed to start the Chirstmas food / sweets until about Christmas eve. As an adult who now buys my own goodies, I buy them and gorge them all straight away!
*sigh* yes I am still rebelling!

Oh I could tell you some tales about Christmas rules and how I rebel against them For example........

For 15 years I had my parents over on Christmas day. My then husband insisted that we all get up and dressed (me with full make-up and not a hair out of place) and then wait to open presents until our guests had arrived. Dinner was always at 1pm on the DOT! (One year his present to me was an electric carving knife, which he proceeded to use to carve the turkey )

The first Christmas after we split I told Jo and Rob to prod me as soon as they were awake, which was about 6am, and then we proceeded (in our pj's) to open all the presents, eat lots of chocolate and generally have a bloody good time. And dinner was somewhere around 4pm, while we were still in our pj's Poor kids were gobsmacked to find out that Christmas was actually supposed to be FUN!!!!

Woah, his hair is kind of long there?
or is it me?

It is. I love his hair just a little on the long side

Is it me or is PB an utter disaster area tonight? I can't upload anything. It's very annoying!


*waves to Amanda*

Yep. Since they 'improved' it, it's been a freakin' nightmare

[Cagranosalis]

For 15 years I had my parents over on Christmas day. My then husband insisted that we all get up and dressed (me with full make-up and not a hair out of place) and then wait to open presents until our guests had arrived. Dinner was always at 1pm on the DOT! (One year his present to me was an electric carving knife, which he proceeded to use to carve the turkey )

The first Christmas after we split I told Jo and Rob to prod me as soon as they were awake, which was about 6am, and then we proceeded (in our pj's) to open all the presents, eat lots of chocolate and generally have a bloody good time. And dinner was somewhere around 4pm, while we were still in our pj's Poor kids were gobsmacked to find out that Christmas was actually supposed to be FUN!!!!

Yes, absolutely. Christmas is supposed to be fun!
My mum always makes us wait until after a very late dinner to open our presents. And by late I mean 6pmish. As kids we did open them early though but the late dinner and present opening thing is her family tradition. My husband's family tradition is to nominate one person to play Santa, (and it's usually the waif or stray that turns up last minute with nowhere else to go that we frantically scramble about to find presents to open for) to hand out presents to others. Then it's sort of a rip it off and scramble frenzy... go on, guess which family tradition I have adopted?
We didn't even get out of our nightclothes until lunchtime last year. That's how it should be.

[Jumble]

Yes, absolutely. Christmas is supposed to be fun!
My mum always makes us wait until after a very late dinner to open our presents. And by late I mean 6pmish. As kids we did open them early though but the late dinner and present opening thing is her family tradition. My husband's family tradition is to nominate one person to play Santa, (and it's usually the waif or stray that turns up last minute with nowhere else to go that we frantically scramble about to find presents to open for) to hand out presents to others. Then it's sort of a rip it off and scramble frenzy... go on, guess which family tradition I have adopted?
We didn't even get out of our nightclothes until lunchtime last year. That's how it should be.

It's just mad isn't it?

About 15 years ago I said to the kids 'Do you really want turkey for Christmas dinner? Or do you want to choose what you want for Christmas dinner?' and IIRC, Rob chose the biggest pizza he could find, Jo chose jacket potato and macaroni cheese, and Suz and I had burger and chips

I haven't cooked a turkey since, and never will.

[Cagranosalis]

Great! Don't blame you; it sounds divine!

We once had Mexican for Christmas which was a lovely change but, actually I do like the traditional roast dinner for Christmas but then again, I don't cook it week in week out like some people do so it's a big deal for me. I think we have one roast dinner every two or three months in this house. We did have duck once (glazed in marmalade and doused in Cointreau) and often have beef or pork instead of turkey. I'm not really a big lover of turkey at the best of times.

[Jumble]

Great! Don't blame you; it sounds divine!

We once had Mexican for Christmas which was a lovely change but, actually I do like the traditional roast dinner for Christmas but then again, I don't cook it week in week out like some people do so it's a big deal for me. I think we have one roast dinner every two or three months in this house.

At the time, we did have the traditional Sunday roast every week. It was our family day and it was great

We did have duck once (glazed in marmalade and doused in Cointreau) and often have beef or pork instead of turkey. I'm not really a big lover of turkey at the best of times.

I don't like turkey breast, I only like the leg meat. Stuart has promised me a drumstick when we do the Christmas dinner on the 20th (with Suz, Mike and Mike's Mum), because I mentioned I didn't like the breast when we were chatting in the school playground the other day I also don't like Christmas pudding or Mince pies hot. I love them cold.......... with custard and cream... yum!

I know, I'm picky But seriously, if you can't eat what you want at Christmas, what's the point?

[JenniferJF]

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