I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. My plans for today include a swim later and some Netflix and chill.
Have a lovely day folks!
Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December). Though it originated as a holiday to give gifts to the poor, today Boxing Day is primarily known as a shopping holiday. It originated in Great Britain and is celebrated in a number of countries that previously formed part of the British Empire. The attached bank holiday or public holiday may take place on 28 December if necessary to ensure it falls on a weekday. Boxing Day is also concurrent with the Catholic holiday Saint Stephen’s Day.
In parts of Europe, such as several regions of Spain,Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Slovakia,Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, and Ireland, 26 December is Saint Stephen’s Day, which is considered the second day of Christmas.
We had a nice time at Ady & Paula’s yesterday but we (especially Tony) were happy to be brought home about 5.00pm whereas Paula’s parents were staying the night.
We dossed out in the evening with ham salad cobs, trifle & Doc Martin on the box. Actually I was finding Doc Martin a bit boring & I dropped off to sleep. Did anybody watch it? How did you rate it?
Today I will be busy sorting my clothes out & packing for our stay at Thorsby Hall. Sue & Nick are taking us tomorrow & Ady will fetch us back on Friday.
I am still feeling stressed & ill & my blood pressure is very high in spite of medication. I need to get an appointment with the Dr in the New Year.
I am hoping our time at Thorsby Hall will do both of us good.
Have a good boxing day everybody…
Susie you could go for a walk.
For many years Tony & had a walk on boxing day until it got that he couldn’t walk very far…
boxin day latish arvo here cobas - got a belated xmas present hand delivered but my fierce dog wouldn’t let them come in ! Walkers homebake shortbread -I didn’t realize how addictive they are - empty pack now mind had a nap half way through! keeps promisin showers but none yet justs sultry at 24C.
saw the end of charles dickensons - the film “the man who invented Xmas” wot a jolly romp that was! hurruh!
Well today will be exactly the same as yesterday. I will cook myself a Turkey roast lunch, with trifle after (actually, black cherry jelly with the trifle sponges inside, and chocolate custard). There will be telly watching (I had to record a lot of yesterday evening’s showings, including Emmerdale and Doc Martin, because of dog walks). My Sky planner is more than half full now so I’d best get rid of some programmes.
I stayed up watching Call the Midwife from the planner and didn’t get out with Holly till 9.30, a little later than usual.
I finished a library book in bed last night so will look at what’s left, maybe start another one.
Feeling relieved that Christmas is over for another year. I missed the winter solstice, so I’ll celebrate it here. Yay that the days are getting longer.
I don’t celebrate Boxing day. If anything, it’s the annual gift return day. I don’t celebrate that either.
We tend to have an annual event round about October, which involves chucking or donating unused/unwanted prezzies from last year from under the ottoman bed, thus creating space for those gifts this year which we feel we ought to keep hold of just in case the givers come round and we can show that they’re being used (albeit once only, which is sufficient)
I like Boxing Day. I can put the radio on knowing that Chris Rea has finally got home, George micheal has found the heart he gave away and hopefully the bloke constantly wishing for peace on Earth has read the room.
I think we’re talking about different kinds of events. I was thinking more of people returning gifts in the stores. The stores generally have a 30-90 day return policy so people flock to the stores to return what they got. The stores here are packed on the 26th. Some people here make a day of it.
People pretending to keep gifts to show the giver they still have it probably mostly applies to handmade stuff.
Can’t imagine someone keeping an ipad around to show they kept it. It would be getting obsolete with each passing day.
Ah. Yep, two different things. Those that can be returned for a refund, and those that god only knows where they were sold (or who, in their right mind, decided would be worthwhile making in the first place?)
Hi afternoon all and sundry. I had a problem with our electrics. I narrowed it down to one MCB, the downstairs sockets. I checked them all including the built in washing machine. Our friend across the way suggested it could be a blown bulb. There was a blown bulb in upstairs bathroom and that’s what it was. Strange wiring…
The lighting and power circuits appear to operate the left side of the house and they are fine. The other side is where that circuit tripped. This part is where the fridges, my computer, and the upstairs lighting all failed. Odd to say the least.
Is it a split busbar with each split protected by an RCD, one of which got tripped via the shorting bulb tripping the mcb?
You’d know better than me (or possibly not as you dealt with big electrickery), but they used to have some circuits not RCD protected at all, notably lighting circuits.
They are all RCDs. I just don’t know some are upstairs and some are downstairs. And you are right - my field was industrial power electronics - specifically variable speed drives
the farce that is Christmas is nearly over and we can soon get back to some sort of normality.
