Boxing Day

by **Herzeleid** on Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:17 am

Sounds like a great day for a FOIGHT

Anyways, today i'm in a good mood since I DON'T have work like I did yesterday, so pray tell, how many of us follow the boxing day tradition of party food and family coming round?

by **ribbons69** on Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:24 am

Aye,got my family coming round at 11 this morning,the G/F and I have got a massive buffet laid out on the front room table already,and loads of booze laid on.Should be a good day.

by **Steve** on Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:54 pm

We have buffet food + left-over-turkey sarnies on Boxing Day, but see family the previous day

by **jonny_boy34** on Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:44 pm

No, thank fuck. Dinner yesterday was awkward and rubbish enough. I'm going to the pub.

by **Metal Iain** on Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:50 pm

The family was round yesterday - 10 of us round the table.

Food wise, today will probably be a case of people making their own make-shift meals with leftovers from yesterday. We polished off most of the booze though.

by **Povey** on Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:00 pm

Working just like yesterday.

Work was'nt to bad yesterday mind. Got to my sisters and had dinner at 5pm then went home and watched a Al Murray Dvd.

Today is teh suck for the work. Tho I have tomorrow off

by **Dian Wei** on Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:00 pm

At my uncles, fixing his sodding computer. Doi!

by **terrorizer** on Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:47 pm

At work. Bugger.

by **UKNecropsy** on Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:55 am

It's my b-day \m/.

by **MEAT** on Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:17 am

went the welsh mountain zoo
butty box out and looking at "our day out" film spots in zoo from 1977
the penguin pool, reptile house etc is exactly the same
nothing has been changed

by **swizzlenuts** on Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:49 pm

So what is this boxing day shit? I've never even heard of it until I moved here.

by **thrashduck** on Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:37 pm

Used to be a tradition in Victorian Britain (or something) where you opened your presents the day after christmas day... Now it's just a day of lying on the sofa stuffed up to your balls.

I was in a swimming pool.

by **MEAT** on Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:18 pm

boxing day was started in the reign of queen victoria
was the day when the servants of the houses got presents from emplyers
they got then in boxes.........hence boxing day

by **Metal Iain** on Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:20 pm

MEAT wrote:boxing day was started in the reign of queen victoria
was the day when the servants of the houses got presents from emplyers
they got then in boxes.........hence boxing day

Was it also under Queen Victoria that we moved Christmas to the 25th of December from the 7th of January?

by **Stevedot2** on Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:45 pm

This year is actually the first year we didn't see the rest of the family on Boxing Day. We're doing that tomorrow now, but I dunno if I can be arsed to go, we're having it at my aunt's in Bournmouth! I'm gonna be hungover too, but it would be nice to see everyone.