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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2020 22:59:29 GMT
Well, this has been one heck of a year, and the final hurdle is beginning to look particularly challenging. Happily, a vaccine is coming, and coming soon, so optimism is allowed!
This thread is primarily about Christmas 2020, and how we are reacting to the restrictions surrounding it.
I'll be working until December 22nd and then looking forward to the first Christmas I have ever had to spend alone. It will be odd, but I have no problem with my own company - there's a possibility I'll be listening to a bit of Big Finish (probably Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Fleet Street Transparency and then Tom Baker's AudioGo reading of A Christmas Carol on the day itself). A brief stroll, perhaps, and some sketching.
Whatever everyone is doing, and how everyone is doing it: God bless, and if you can't have the happy Christmas you wanted, I hope you all have the happiest possible Christmas.
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Post by grinch on Dec 20, 2020 23:14:08 GMT
Great thread Davros1.
Personally, COVID restrictions not withstanding it’ll be a very quiet Christmas for me. Just going to put my feet up and count the seconds until this dreadful year is over and I can finally listen to Masterful. Whilst stuffing my face with good food of course.
And likewise, a Merry Christmas to all of you at home!
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Post by muckypup on Dec 20, 2020 23:57:44 GMT
i want to wish every one a safe Christmas rather than a merry one,
thanks to everyone on here for all the support though the times when i felt more than afraid,
enjoy the time over Christmas, it will be strange, disappointing, lonely but we have hope the new year might just end this misery
thanks everyone
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Post by barnabaslives on Dec 21, 2020 1:15:14 GMT
Thank you all for the support and kindness you've shown me, thank you all for just being here, and thank you for the Holiday wishes. Here's wishing that your worries and woes and annoying in-laws stay on the porch with this $%&#^! virus where they belong. Remember what the Fifth Doctor always says, " Braveheart, Tegan".  Disclaimer: Just to lay to rest any rumors, one of our resident heroes, causality, did indeed pose for this ornament  Happiest possible Holidays to everyone. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 3:43:34 GMT
Merry Christmas you wonderful, wonderful people.  It's been a brutal year, but I can say with nary a hint of doubt, that this forum and its people has been a continued bright spot. The darker the world got, the brighter we endeavoured to be. Thank you, everyone, for your contributions, your support and your willingness to try even in the grimmest moments. This community has been a lifeboat in a sea of chaos. And whatever else may happen, it's mattered. Best of the holidays to you all. (If you've not checked out Divergent Wordsmiths, here are our contributions for under the tree this year.)  |
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Post by doctorkernow on Dec 21, 2020 21:03:55 GMT
Hello again Divergent Universe forumites,
Thank you for another year of friendship, great discussion, creativity and silly laughs. The members of this forum have seen me through another difficult year. Christmas will be similar to every other Christmas for us, with one important exception. Now we are six. Our granddaughter and her mother are in our support bubble and so we will have a smiley, bouncy, food-loving nine-month old joining us this year.
I wish everyone a safe Christmas and hope fervently for better days to come...
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Post by elkawho on Dec 22, 2020 19:00:35 GMT
I will be doing what I always do at Christmas...watching a movie and eating Chinese food. (Maybe Japanese this year .) Yes another Jewish Christmas for me. I hope all of you that celebrate have as good as holiday as possible. Here's hoping for a better, happier and healthy year for us all. |
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Post by tuigirl on Dec 22, 2020 19:41:46 GMT
I also wish all of you the best possible holiday period.
Yes, it will be very different from normal, and for all of us who are under lockdown and curfew restrictions, it will be even harder.
I wish everybody strength to cope with the difficulties and loneliness and social distance from loved ones.
I wish all the best to all of you who are sick, or have friends or family who are sick.
I give warm virtual hugs to everyone who may need them.
I myself will be travelling home to my parents, and to be conform with the law, and lockdown, my family will only come together in separate groups.
This is the first time this will be happening for my parents.
I will also have to work Christmas Eve, which is traditionally (under normal circumstances) the busiest German Christmas day- this is when Germans normally get their presents! And when we have our midnight church gatherings.
None of this this year, though.
I at least hope I get out of work to avoid curfew (and a potential 500 Euro fine) so I can travel home in time.
On the other hand, snow is forecast for the Christmas holidays (I always think it is a mixed blessing when you have to travel around in a car), but for everybody else and the kids it will provide some relief and fun and romantic scenery.
I hope I can still hop on and off this forum during the holidays, and share some more of the cheer.
Happy holidays everyone. Or at least, less sad ones.
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Post by shutupbanks on Dec 23, 2020 9:01:36 GMT
We'll be going to a restaurant for Christmas lunch this year, something we've never done before. Just us and our eldest, as the only parts of our entire extended family in Western Australia.
I'll also be toasting 2020 away a few days later, with the fervent hope that next year will be much better. Here in WA, we've been sheltered from a lot of the... stuff... that has been happening elsewhere for which I am extremely thankful. However, through conversations with my family and friends elsewhere in the country and the world I have really appreciated that bubble we have been living in. I am, however, exhausted from this year. We broke up school on Thursday and had a meeting planning out next year on Friday morning before we went out to lunch. After we got home from lunch on Friday evening I crawled into bed and have gotten out only to walk the dog and make coffee since then (or that's how it feels).
I wish you all (yes, even you) the very best for Christmas, New Year or whatever else you may be doing. Thank you being a bastion of informed sanity in the world.
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Post by mark687 on Dec 24, 2020 17:26:04 GMT
Wishing Everyone a Safe and Happy Holiday Season
Regards
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Post by timegirl on Dec 24, 2020 18:32:57 GMT
I am having a laidback Christmas at home this year. Me and my parents are unwrapping our presents on Zoom with my aunt in the morning. We always do puns and riddles on all the to and from tags relating to whatever the present is rather than our names. We each read out the tags and try to guess what it could be!
Then I am doing zoom chats with all of my relatives and then taking a Christmas walk. After that me and my parents are watching the new Pixar movie, Soul on Disney Plus. It should be a nice relaxing Christmas hopefully!
I wanted to say I know everyone has had a hard year in 2020, but I wanted to to say thank you for being kind and understanding to me, you guys are like my online whovian family! I love all of you and I hope that everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas and a happier New Year! 💙💙🎄☃️
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Post by The Brigadier on Dec 24, 2020 23:20:47 GMT
Tomorrow is going to be a little different from the usual festivities. As I drew the short straw when it came to doing a night shift on the 25th it'll be a quiet Christmas in this household. Close family will come and stand two metres socially distanced from my front door and I will do the same with friends living nearby. Like timegirl I will be hitting Zoom to talk to family and friends further away and join an online support bubble a good friend so desperately needs right now. Christmas lunch will be lighter than normal as it will be just the two of us. A glass will be raised at some point to absent friends and missed opportunities and I'll actually break the habit of a lifetime and tune into the Queen's Speech mid afternoon, if only for the vain hope that her majesty will spend the entire time sighing in weary exasperation while trying to define 2020 as a whole. And then by early evening I'll change into a pair of novelty pyjamas and a pair of hiking boots, put on enough hair gel to spike my hair to the point that I'll look like I've stuck my fingers in an electric socket, dig out a set of novelty antlers, drive the twenty odd miles to work while quietly praying that the cops don't pull me over...and all in the very small hope that my looking completely ridiculous will raise either a smile or a chuckle or even a belly laugh amongst a group of people in a nursing home that don't have much to smile or chuckle or belly laugh about right now. Because Maya Angelou was right. People will forget what you said and what you did..but they will never forget how you made them feel. And in the year when everything has been thrown up in the air by a virus, that has to count for something. Wishing all of you a Happy Christmas and the hope of a happier new year than the one we will soon leave behind. |
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Post by tuigirl on Dec 24, 2020 23:32:40 GMT
Tomorrow is going to be a little different from the usual festivities. As I drew the short straw when it came to doing a night shift on the 25th it'll be a quiet Christmas in this household. Close family will come and stand two metres socially distanced from my front door and I will do the same with friends living nearby. Like timegirl I will be hitting Zoom to talk to family and friends further away and join an online support bubble a good friend so desperately needs right now. Christmas lunch will be lighter than normal as it will be just the two of us. A glass will be raised at some point to absent friends and missed opportunities and I'll actually break the habit of a lifetime and tune into the Queen's Speech mid afternoon, if only for the vain hope that her majesty will spend the entire time sighing in weary exasperation while trying to define 2020 as a whole. And then by early evening I'll change into a pair of novelty pyjamas and a pair of hiking boots, put on enough hair gel to spike my hair to the point that I'll look like I've stuck my fingers in an electric socket, dig out a set of novelty antlers, drive the twenty odd miles to work while quietly praying that the cops don't pull me over...and all in the very small hope that my looking completely ridiculous will raise either a smile or a chuckle or even a belly laugh amongst a group of people in a nursing home that don't have much to smile or chuckle or belly laugh about right now. Because Maya Angelou was right. People will forget what you said and what you did..but they will never forget how you made them feel. And in the year when everything has been thrown up in the air by a virus, that has to count for something. Wishing all of you a Happy Christmas and the hope of a happier new year than the one we will soon leave behind. I am so glad you are doing this to cheer up folks. And I completely agree with you. Who cares how you look like? As long as you get one smile out of it it will be worth it. People from the other building at work still ask me when I will do another dress up because they still remember my little standup show in my Sixie costume at work and how I made everybody laugh. I will do it again next year. The world desperately needs more colour and smiles and positive crazyness. I wish you fun and hope you get rewarded with many smiles and create many happy memories. |
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Post by sherlock on Dec 25, 2020 0:36:37 GMT
I’m spending it just with my immediate family who I live with this year, though got one Zoom call scheduled with one side of the family grandparents. A nice safe little Christmas.
Happy Christmas all.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Dec 25, 2020 2:52:14 GMT
It's been a wild ride. I know many on here have felt it hard this year, and with good reason. We've all endured great anxiety and worry. However, like all ills, this will pass. Don't dwell on the dark: you're still here; loved ones are still here; your hopes, dreams and wishes are still here. All of that is an achievement.
Have a Happy Christmas everyone.
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Post by constonks on Dec 25, 2020 6:26:43 GMT
Merry whatever you manage this year, friends! Let the day be special and know this year has almost passed. (And eat some chocolate.)
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Dec 25, 2020 12:30:51 GMT
Happy Christmas (or the best approximation manageable) to all here
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