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Tell Me About Your Favourite Part Of Your Childhood Christmas
This may seem odd but mine was making 'stained glass windows' at junior school with coloured tissue paper and the school Christmas party jelly and blancmange.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Christmas happened overnight on Christmas Eve. My parents must have worked all night to make it happen, we went to bed with nothing - no decorations, no tree and got up to the house decorated and lunch all ready for cooking. We did the same for our children when they were very small. It was magical to see their face when they got half way downstairs as ours must have been for my parents.
Helping to make those coloured paper link chains with my sister. Then Mum would hang them around the room with a few balloons. Most favourite was waking up to a pillow case each at the bottom of our bed, brimmed full of presents. We were so excited to see what Mum had got us. She couldn't afford a lot but never disappointed. My Father used to tell her to just get us a writing book and pencil each! 😁
So much! Christmas was magical - because, I suppose, the rest of the yearwas much of a muchness in the mid 1950's.
Hours and hours making paper-chains with my sister. We had shiny squares of paper to cut into strips and glue together. Then decorating the old, artificial tree and re-discovering the robin, angel and other ancient decorations. Fastening new birthday-cake candles into the clup-on candle-holders for the tree and lighting them for the first time - no grown-ups around!
Heating pennies on chestnut-roasters over the openfire and making holes in the ice on the window so we could see out.
Early Christmas morning, scrambling to the bottom of the bed to find presents to occupy us, 'School Friend' annual perhaps and a sugar mouse.
Christmas Day driving past 'Sooty's House' at Guisely on our way to a more distant cemetery, following which we called at an 'Auntie & Uncle's' & played with their children for a while.
Hearing Mum and Dad arguing inthe car on the way back as to whether the turkey (left in the oven) would be overcooked.
Christmas dinner in the evening around the table in the oak-beamed dining-room and the distribution and opening of presents afterwards.
Simple days and happy ones.
I've really struggled to remember any particular Christmas highlight from my childhood - apart, of course, from opening all my presents!
However I have remembered that, although I absolutely detested having a traditional roast dinner every Sunday lunchtime, Christmas Day was the only day in the year that I got to eat a type of roast meat that I really liked (because it was far too expensive for my mother to buy for any other day of the year). Yes, for me, Christmas Day was chicken day!
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