Last year on Christmas Eve, and this year, we are having a big cheese plate with pate and other nibbles for our tea while we have some drinks and watch whatever is on telly.
Christmas Day - last year we both went to the pub in the morning since his mom was cooking lunch for us, but this year, I am cooking the dinner while he goes to the pub with the boys for a few pints in the late morning / early afternoon (it's tradition in our village that the lads go to the pub to get out of the way of their women! And mostly because they don't want to have to help.
) I will also be having a nip while I am cooking.
Of course, we will open gifts first, except that none of ours to each other are wrapped since we went on a big shopping spree in the US and just bought our own stuff this year.
Boxing Day - all day drink fest. The women go their own way, the men go their own way, and both sides frequently meet up throughout the day but keep separating to go to different bars. Last year, I was wasted by 3pm and ended up in lying in the bushes (Mrs R loves this story...lol) but this year, I will try to maintain my composure. I have decreed the new law is to have a full English in the morning before we go out. My SIL is picking me up at noon to walk to her girlfriend's house and have a drink there, then it's on to the pub crawl. There are 14 pubs in our village, and we will probably make it to about 10 of them. Lord have mercy on me!
I am planning to throw together a spinach strata to pop in the oven when we come in all drunk in the evening. Hopefully this year, I won't ralph all over the place like last year, or do anything else crazy.
