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Christmas
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We used to put up Christmas decorations on Christmas Eve and no sooner.
We tried to pick some holly as well. Cards were hung on ribbon around
the room together with paper streamers or homemade paper chains. You could
buy packets of strips of sticky paper to make paper chains. We used to
have a real Christmas tree and my father always tried to get one with roots
and put it in a pot of soil in the house. When Christmas was over he used
to plant it in the garden but it never grew. The decorations stayed up till
twelfth night when they were taken down.
Christmas day was usually spent at home or at my Gran’s house, two doors
away. Sometimes we used to go and visit my Aunt, Uncle and Cousins in the
morning. My Gran cooked the chicken, usually a boiler fowl, which was
boiled and then roasted with stuffing.. Fat bacon slices were put over
the bird to moisten it and sausages were cooked around the bird as well.
We had sprouts and roast potatoes for vegetables. My father had a tin
of salmon as he didn’t eat chicken. A tin of salmon was a luxury in those
days. In the afternoon, another Uncle, Aunt and Cousin used to come and
we used to play games like cards, monopoly, careers or cluedo.
A Christmas Party
Boxing day was often spent at my Aunt and Uncle’s - the ones who had come
to our house on Christmas day. They sometimes had a turkey, which was a
luxury. My aunt was good at cooking fancy cakes.
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