Christmas procedures /traditions

[Still Farming]

Do you all do different things every year or stick to same routines?

Christmas Eve get all ready, pub, Church Services??, telly, local village or town events etc etc ??

Christmas Day.
Race round get stock checked and done and back in?

Inaws,outlaws round or go to theirs for Dinner ?

Open all prezzies with family and kids?

Drive about visiting all?

Then simular Boxing day etc etc ???

Maybe different parts have different veiws and domestic "politics " ???

 

[DrWazzock]

Cooking. For me it’s all cooking. Scaled it down now but a couple of years back I did the Christmas family meal. I was up a 5.00 am putting the Turkey in and didn’t seem to stop till midnight on culinary palaver. Hardest days work of the year but satisfying. Absolute respect for whoever gets landed with the cooking everywhere.

 

[Cowpoke82]

Cooking. For me it’s all cooking. Scaled it down now but a couple of years back I did the Christmas family meal. I was up a 5.00 am putting the Turkey in and didn’t seem to stop till midnight on culinary palaver. Hardest days work of the year but satisfying. Absolute respect for whoever gets landed with the cooking everywhere.

Same for me but also rushing about feeding stock

 

[Barleymow]

Nip to pub early evening Christmas eve ,it's 2 minutes walk away. Tomorrow morning walk to the Oak tree I planted for dad he died 6yrs ago Tomorrow. Village has walk at 11 am boxing day for up to 90 mins then swift pint afterwards

 

[Zippy768]

My Xmas eve is certainly different now with 2 kids.
Early start this morning and everything in place to make Xmas day and boxing day straightforward.
Nice to spend Xmas eve with them today as lands on a weekend.

All hands on deck tomorrow to get everything feed and sorted sharpish .

We spend Xmas day just me, wife and 2 kids. A santa stocking each keeps them quiet until I get finished.
My turn for Xmas afternoon off so....
Boxing day is at my parents - have 4 sisters and families - so it is a big get together. 2nd Xmas day

 

[Andrew1983]

Extra bedding and feeding done yesterday and today so I can check round and push in where needed tomorrow, hopefully no jammed water troughs or other disasters which often seem to happen. Meant to be family round for dinner which we have got half prepared for today but niece has gone down with a bug. So it may turn into a Boxing Day feed. Turkey in the suis vide and ham in the slow cooker swimming, wife has got the veg ready to go.

@DrWazzock I know what you mean it’s hard work, couple years now I have been landed doing everything on my own as mrs has been on call, It certainly helps being prepped the day before and the suis vide is a game changer for cooking any big bit of meat.

 

[Lowland1]

I always go round the farm on Christmas morning. It gets me out of the way of everything going on. Tomorrow I'll be subsoiling til dinner time.

 

[glasshouse]

Just enjoying some godminster cheese .
Best before jan 16 2023
Very nice

 

[Still Farming]

 

[Bongodog]

For the 1st time in years neither visiting family nor having family round tommorow, just the three of us. Turkey crown and veg already sorted so relax, down pub from 9 to 11pm with friends, Christmas day get up when we feel like it, turn on oven as we feel, eat when we want. Boxing Day, probably go to the Hunt, might visit nearly 96 year old aunt on way home then eat leftovers.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Trip of the lights,
Done it with the kids for years, I'm the biggest kid of all, just come back from driving around Brighton
First prize goes to a little house back at Cross Inn Wales. Opposite Rhos Yr Haffod Pub

 

[delilah]

Polish family on duty this morning, they kept up an old tradition from home by feeding the stock blessed communion bread.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I will be cooking a 13lb Norfolk Bronze turkey, from a farm down the road. I have never managed to make good stuffing, maybe this year! Partner said in Austria they eat Carp on christmas eve (but she also said it actually doesn't taste very nice!). Ex wife was Danish, so we always had duck, potatoes (glazed in sugar) and sweep pickled red cabbage, followed by cold rice pudding with a hot cherry sauce (and chopped almonds, with one whole almond, whoever found that got a marzipan pig as a prize).

 

[Still Farming]

Watching The Royal Carol service at Westminster on TV and some of these singers with their new twist on the songs have certainly something to be desired!
The choir lot were looking at amazement at them!

 

[Av Gorritt]

Christmas dinner at son's house . D in L is doing a really nice piece of home reared beef . Two ribs from a home kill , bit of "bark " on them so that they cook moist , with all the trimmings . Heavy day for her , but a bit luxurious for all the rest of us . --- And a merry Christmas to all our readers ! Youngest Gt. G. son went to see Santa , his requests ? A tractor , a quad bike and a shotgun !!! I'm told he's getting the Quad bike but MOST DEFINITELY not the shotgun !

 

[thorpe]

Christmas dinner at son's house . D in L is doing a really nice piece of home reared beef . Two ribs from a home kill , bit of "bark " on them so that they cook moist , with all the trimmings . Heavy day for her , but a bit luxurious for all the rest of us . --- And a merry Christmas to all our readers ! Youngest Gt. G. son went to see Santa , his requests ? A tractor , a quad bike and a shotgun !!! I'm told he's getting the Quad bike but MOST DEFINITELY not the shotgun !

why?

 

[Av Gorritt]

At under 4 Y. O. ???

 

[Still Farming]

Its here anyhow!

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Sun screen to prevent sunburn!!!

 

[TelesnaAg]

My aim is to avoid Christmas wankfest, and im good at it.

BBQ lunch with scotch n coke.

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