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The Days Were Packed Back Then
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:56 pm
by Grip Fast
When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I would get home around 3:00 am on Christmas morning after a party, and sleep for about 15 hours. Then I'd get up and have a leisurely breakfast before opening presents. Lunch, with all the trimmings, would follow a couple of hours later, and then a long walk in the cold sunshine with the family. Maybe a snooze in the afternoon and a few rounds of a new board game, before mum would make tea; after which we'd watch Morecambe and Wise and a Christmas film. Then I'd meet up with a couple of mates, and if we were lucky, there would be another party to go to on Christmas evening.
This year, I went to bed at 10 pm on Christmas Eve then, after 4 hours sleep (it seemed), I was up to walk the dog and then help prepare breakfast. Straight onto cooking lunch for 1 o'clock. With lunch over and the pots washed, we managed a 15 minute walk round the village before it got dark. Just time to prepare tea before The Midwife Christmas Special came on the telly. More tidying up and washing pots, and it's 10 o'clock again and time for bed.
The days were definitely very much longer when I was a youth.
Merry Christmas all... Soon be Spring
Re: The Days Were Packed Back Then
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 8:34 am
by popsky
Grip Fast wrote:When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I would get home around 3:00 am on Christmas morning after a party, and sleep for about 15 hours. Then I'd get up and have a leisurely breakfast before opening presents. Lunch, with all the trimmings, would follow a couple of hours later, and then a long walk in the cold sunshine with the family. Maybe a snooze in the afternoon and a few rounds of a new board game, before mum would make tea; after which we'd watch Morecambe and Wise and a Christmas film. Then I'd meet up with a couple of mates, and if we were lucky, there would be another party to go to on Christmas evening.
This year, I went to bed at 10 pm on Christmas Eve then, after 4 hours sleep (it seemed), I was up to walk the dog and then help prepare breakfast. Straight onto cooking lunch for 1 o'clock. With lunch over and the pots washed, we managed a 15 minute walk round the village before it got dark. Just time to prepare tea before The Midwife Christmas Special came on the telly. More tidying up and washing pots, and it's 10 o'clock again and time
for bed.
The days were definitely very much longer when I was a youth.
Merry Christmas all... Soon be Spring
Ere that sounds suspiciously like my Christmas Day
Re: The Days Were Packed Back Then
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 5:58 pm
by nab 301
Grip Fast wrote:When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I would get home around 3:00 am on Christmas morning after a party, and sleep for about 15 hours. Then I'd get up and have a leisurely breakfast before opening presents. Lunch, with all the trimmings, would follow a couple of hours later, The days were definitely very much longer when I was a youth.
What country was that
3am +15 hrs = 6pm = well past sunset in Europe...
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 7:31 pm
by boxerscott
Funny I was thinking that
Must have been some party but I got the gist, The washing up is meant to be done by those who do not prepare the food no?
Re: The Days Were Packed Back Then
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 11:05 pm
by Grip Fast
nab 301 wrote:
What country was that
3am +15 hrs = 6pm = well past sunset in Europe...
I never like to let a bit of arithmetic get in the way of a good exaggeration. Besides I was a teenager then, so I must have slept for 15 hours at a time - it's what they do.
There doesn't seem to be 15 hours in an entire day anymore.
I'm not sure there was a gist to get, Boxerscott. But good effort in coming up with a moral to the story that even I didn't see. I'm going to introduce that as a new house rule.
Happy New Year when it arrives.
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 11:53 pm
by el-nicko
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Sleep? I can get by on just 4 hours a night as long as I get another 6 during the day.
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Re: The Days Were Packed Back Then
Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:49 pm
by Mister C (Marsh)
Grip Fast wrote:
The days were definitely very much longer when I was a youth.
mmm Not just the days either
Marsh