I thought, instead of posting this on the daily articles comments, I'd put it here so it doesn't drop off into the abyss. Feel free to add your own Christmas Day experiences here...
I wanted to talk about my Christmas day experience in tier 3. We were 'permitted' to see up to 3 households on Christmas day, so that should have been sufficient enough for me to spend the day with my parents and my 2 siblings (one of which is in their "support bubble") as usual at my parents house.
Unfortunately, my dad has been thoroughly brainwashed into believing the scaremongering and so he expected us all to socially distance while inside their house. To make matters worse, all the windows must be open. I made my feelings very clear about how this was totally unnecessary and will only make us all feel unwelcome and uncomfortable.
At first I refused to go round. But knowing this is likely to be the last year we'll have Christmas, and for my mother's sake, I caved in and went round with my fiancée. We endured the freezing wind blowing through the rooms and a constant uneasiness about 'contamination' while we all sat in allocated seats. We all agreed to not talk about Covid-19, but the elephant in room was suffocating.
We left to go home earlier than we normally would and with a feeling of utter misery rather than the usual happiness and contentedness you would expect to feel after Christmas celebrations.
What the lockdown appears to have also achieved is driving a huge wedge between families; even when the 'rules' are withdrawn for one day, there will always be sufficient number of people scared enough to want to keep the rules.
Yet, I imagine our Christmas was better than it was for most and I wonder what other people's experiences have been? What are your thoughts on celebrating New Year?
I enjoyed having my family at christmas. No social distancing no masks and all the other rubbish. We all enjoyed a christmas dinner eating together no seperate dinners sittings or rooms ect..the room was cosy with the log fire on..( windows well and truly closed..it was snowing) we all hugged and sang and talked loudly..music and dancing followed by lots of board games with the inevitable rows with those cheating 😉christmas presents ( unsterelized ) were exchanged all washed down with plenty of booze. A lovely christmas day was had by all.
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Entirely normal Christmas which involved seeing the same people in the same houses as always and the same people staying overnight and sharing food as always.
This is in Tier 4 Wales. Absolutely nobody at all cared about the rules. Nobody.
Quieter than normal Christmas, as no involvement with church.
Joined by eldest son and daughter-in-law; they stayed 2 nights. We talked endlessly, rubbished the situation, ate together, used the same serving spoons, watched a couple of Christmas films, crowded around a communal jigsaw puzzle, blew into squeakers, etc.
There will have been wilder gatherings (I hope) but it seemed the only proper response to the outrages inflicted on us by Mad Scientists and posturing politicians.
But in one newspaper its reporting that 85% did what the government told them to do at christmas which I dont believe. So far everyone I have met has done the complete opposite. Interestingly enough a lot of these were total sheep and still are in public..
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