Good to be back lads

[Red Lead Ted]

I have had quite a bit on my plate over the last few weeks, But would like to take this opportunity in wishing everyone aboard the good ship lollypop All the very best for the upcoming festivities, Health, Wealth ,And Happiness to everyone, Lets hope by this time next year the word covid will be buried in the annals of time, Enjoy lads its oly once a year Terry.

[Louis the fly]

Welcome back Terry

[Doc Vernon]

A Hearty Welcome back Terry
And a very Merry Xmas to you and Yours too!
Have a great Festive Season with all the trimmings! LOL
cHEERS

[Graham Shaw]

A Hearty Welcome back Terry
And a very Merry Xmas to you and Yours too!
Have a great Festive Season with all the trimmings! LOL
cHEERS

That phrase 'with all the trimmings' amuses me now. Let me explain.I'm a northern lad by birth,and we always called the Christmas decorations,streamers etc-trimmings.(well at least we did in our house).I wonder if you call the decorations trimmings anywhere else? Anyway, so one day at school,I must have been no older than 5 or 6, just before Christmas,and the class teacher ,after asking all we little ones what we were looking forward to on Christmas Day,told us what she was looking forward to. When she said she would be enjoying her Christmas Dinner with all the trimmings,I thought how strange,and nearly burst out laughing ,even raced home after school to tell Mum that Miss Collier was going to eat the trimmings as well as the turkey with her Christmas dinner and got an exasperated look from Mum.....Things we remember,and will do so for ever it seems!

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[Des Taff Jenkins]

Good to see you back Ted, hope you and the family have a lovely warm and cuddly Xmas, and that the New Year will bring you all a clear and healthy one.
Cheers Mate Des

[j.sabourn]

The first banana I ever saw was after the war , it started off green and my mother put in on the mantelpiece curled around a candlestick . I ever after associated bananas and candlesticks as one. So when some idiot in the EU declared that all bananas sold to the public had to be straight it really incensed me to the point where I decided the best thing was away from such ignorant people. I am still trying to put the logic why I mention this today. Maybe because bananas are part of the trimmings for Xmas , maybe some Frenchman wanted straight ones because they went into a stocking easier ? JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Beware now of eating Bananas as they may well be candles according to WA John.
But no doubt if so will brighten up your day.

AS to Terry, god to see you again, I wish you all the complaints of the season. that way you will not mix them up with the compliments to go with the Turkey.

BUt enjoy the season any way you wish

[j.sabourn]

With all the trimmings such as banana skins .straight ones , JS

[Tony Taylor]

That phrase 'with all the trimmings' amuses me now. Let me explain.I'm a northern lad by birth,and we always called the Christmas decorations,streamers etc-trimmings.(well at least we did in our house).....Things we remember,and will do so for ever it seems!

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eating the trimmings will give you tinselitis

[Dennis McGuckin]

Good one Tony,
The lads from up north will understand this.
When singing.
Away in a manger, I always sang.
No crib for a bairne.
Make sense don't you think?