This podcast episode explores the typical British Christmas Day experience, focusing on personal traditions, family gatherings, food, and entertainment, while also introducing relevant vocabulary for English learners.
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Hello you wonderful people and welcome
to the English Right Now podcast. An
English learning podcast to help English
learners around the world. And we talk
about a specific subject. And in this
podcast, we're talking about Christmas
Day in our homes. Uh British Christmas.
It's not really about doing things
perfectly. It can be about routines. And
we're going to teach you at least 10
pieces of related vocabulary along the
way. We say at least 10 because it's a
real conversation with my dear friend
Rob. Ho ho ho. Hello.
>> Ho ho ho. Hello, Roy. Happy Christmas to you.
you.
>> I did. I thought you thought you forgot
my name then. It was such a pause. I was
worried. I thought you was going to go
for Santa.
>> Hello. How How are you today?
>> Yeah, you do look a bit like Santa
actually. Sort of darker Santa, you
know, no white hairs yet. But
>> there's a few. They're coming through.
They're coming through. They're saying
hello. I have to kind of Yeah. >> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> I'm going for it. I'm doing.
>> Anyway, I'm good, Roy. I'm good. Roy
getting into the festive mood in this
festive period.
>> It's Yeah, it's almost Christmas. So, we
thought we'd talk about this uh about
our Christmases.
>> Um, so you say you're getting
>> got the trees. >> Yeah,
>> Yeah,
>> it's a lovely tree.
>> Thank you.
>> Lovely, lovely tree. Have you got a
star? Is there a star on top? >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Oh,
>> there was. I think it's fallen down.
It's a star bit.
>> You've got a cat there, haven't you? So, probably
probably
Um, yeah. So, yeah, the trees up in our
house. We are ready. But we're going to
specifically talk about Christmas Day.
Christmas day. We We talked a year ago.
We started this podcast about a year ago
and we were talking about typical
Christmas time traditions and and in
this one we're just going to talk about
our Christmas days because
>> yeah, just want to know about you, Rob.
>> So, you you use the word festive. It is
a uh a key piece of vocabulary. It's
more than sort of um more than this idea
of celebration. It implies seasonal
warmth, this winter coziness, this
winter warmth, the lights, the food, the
atmosphere. So, it's it's we very
commonly use it to talk about Christmas,
this feeling of like Christmy, being
Christmy. Are you feeling festive?
>> Yeah, I am. I am. Um it it's it's not
particularly cold outside. I mean, we
always associate Christmas with being
really cold and snow, but as you know,
we rarely get snow in the UK at
Christmas. You might get it later on in
the winter, but on Christmas Day itself,
it's likely to be uh wet, windy, a bit
dreary, [laughter] which is a shame. But anyway,
anyway,
>> yes, we have lights to light up the
house. And it's you talk about Christmas
obviously it's a Christian festival
>> but also some people call it if they're
not Christians maybe they they call it
the mid- winter festival because it's
the middle of winter. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> It's dark and it's a good time just to
brighten up your house.
>> Some people just write exmas don't they
as well
>> to get away I mean you say it's a it is
traditionally a Christian festival. I
know a lot of people kind of do, you
know, there's enough people that sort of
get involved on the religious side, but
for most people, Christmas is just about
family, um, presents, giving presents,
receiving presents, um, food, a lot of
food. So, it's it's very much detached
for most British people from religion.
Um I would say quite a quite a you know
I I don't know many people that go to
church on Christmas day that you know
but they do in schools I think of it but
>> yeah there's a lot going on in schools
they do nativity plays you know telling
the story of the birth of Jesus a
nativity play uh and some people perhaps
more people go to church this time of
year than they do the rest of the year
some people might go because they like
to sing uh Christmas carols or something
like that.
>> Yeah. Would you would you like to give
us a blast? No, save it for later. [laughter]
[laughter]
>> Save it for another podcast. We'll we'll
launch our new album. We'll be like the
new Robson and Jerome. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Roy and Robson Christmas Carols badly in
brackets. Um, so how does Christmas Day
start in your household?
>> It starts quite slowly now. Again, it's
depends on your children, doesn't it?
When you used to have very young children,
children,
>> they used to come running up to the
bedroom at maybe 5 6:00 in the morning.
Yeah. Uh, seeing what Santa had brought
them in a stocking because usually there
was a big stuffed sack left downstairs
by somebody uh, full of presents and
they wanted to open them. Now being
teenagers, they're not in so much of a rush
rush
>> and I'm not in a particular rush. So, it
starts fairly quietly and we gradually
drift downstairs
uh, just to see what what presents are
under the tree. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> And then we open the presents.
Yeah. Yeah. I So my my my son is younger
than your children,
>> so we're still going through that phase
of 5:00, 6 o'clock in the morning, the
excitement, uh the anticipation. >> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> Um you know, this kind of buildup the
buildup to to this event. Um and I know
in some cultures they drink, the party
is on Christmas Eve.
>> I'd say the big party for us is on
Christmas Day. And that's possibly
because children wake up at five o'clock
in the morning and nobody wants a hangover.
hangover. >> Um,
>> Um,
>> I I don't know. But yeah, my son will
come back. He's he's been he's been
he'll run downstairs, check if his
presents are there. And then he'll come
up. MOM, DAD, HE'S BEEN he's been he's
been Santa's been. And we're like, oh,
really? Oh. Oh, god. It's 5 in the
morning. Let's just just open a couple
of presents and go back. But we then go
downstairs. And then there's ages you're
trying to stay awake. you're like, I'll
make a coffee. Uh because you give up.
Um and then you you kind of go, you
know, that that's the start of the day.
You start off
>> knackered basically.
>> You go with the flow then, don't you? Go
with the flow. Just carry on, you know. But
But
>> go with the flow. That's a good
expression actually. It means sort of
like just um don't push against things.
Don't try to change the course of the
day. You just kind of go with everybody
else's ideas. You sort of
[clears throat] follow their ideas.
>> I'm saying that that excitement though
as a child, I mean, I do remember that.
It was really exciting, wasn't it, to to to
to
>> think that this guy Santa Claus or
Father Christmas had come to your house,
dropped these presents off, and here was
this huge sack of plastic toys and stuff.
stuff.
As a parent, you have a slightly
different experience, don't you? Yeah.
>> Yeah, you do. You do. Um, but it's still
it's magical to see it through a child's
eyes. Uh, I think I rediscovered my love
of Christmas through my son. Um, and we
we're talking about getting up early. A
key piece of vocabulary is a lion. A
lion is when we sleep [snorts] later
than usual. Doesn't happen normally on
Christmas day, but potentially the next
day on Boxing Day,
>> uh it does it does happen.
>> And what what I mean, what's the one
thing you really associate with
Christmas these days?
>> Chaos and mess. Because the house is
still chaotic and mess. Uh what do I
associate it with? eating too much,
eating lots. So, we will have a sort of
breakfast, an informal, we won't have a
sit down cooked breakfast, but informal
breakfast. We might have a buck's fizz
to start with, orange juice and
champagne or orange juice and procco mixed.
mixed.
>> Uh we may have some quissants, some
pastries, start, you know, start eating
there. Uh then we do the presents, of
course, as I said. Um, and then when we
start thinking about uh getting
Christmas dinner ready because that's
the big thing I suppose the Christmas
>> and because we we have people's family
staying. So my mother-in-law will be
here. She always comes to stay with us
and my father will pop around later to
join us for dinner. So you know the
house will eventually get quite busy and
quite chaotic. So we have to start
thinking about cooking that big dinner.
And the main meat is What's the main
meat for you? Well, it should be turkey,
shouldn't it? Should be.
>> Should be turkey.
>> Yes. Um, but a lot of a lot of
supermarkets, they sell out. Uh, so
there's no more turkey. So, you end up
with chicken or some random meat. Uh,
hopeful that your family just accept it.
Uh, but it should be turkey. We haven't
got our turkey yet. There's there's
what, six days to go. Uh, and probably
now is a time to start panicking. Um, so
yeah, I mean, that's the thing. And we
you it's interesting because the first
thing you associate with Christmas,
you're talking about eating and then
you're mentioning box fizz, which is a
very Christmy drink. Um we overindulge.
I think this is a key piece of vocabulary.
vocabulary.
>> Uh it's when we eat or drink far more
than usual, probably to the point where
we become a bit sick.
>> Uh everybody overindulges at Christmas.
It's, you know, you you end up
deciding to go on a diet.
>> Yes. Yeah. And of course it's all not
all of it but a majority of it is
unhealthy as well. It's not like you're
overindulging on fruit. It tends to be
yeah cakes and then your big roast
dinner and there's probably a big
pudding to eat afterwards. So you do I
suppose you just let yourself go, don't
you? You don't worry about on that day
particularly. You don't worry about
>> your weight, your diet or anything like
that. You just think it's Christmas.
>> Yeah. Another thing that um another
thing as well that uh you know it's a
key piece of vocabulary. You end up with
so much food that you end up eating the
same bloody turkey for about a week or
you know 10 days. And we call this sort
of food leftovers. This is food from
previous meals especially like this big
elaborate Christmas lunch. So we end up
serving leftovers for days in my house.
>> Yes. Yeah. We do. We do. So you got
roast turkey, then you might have a
turkey pie, then you might have some
cold turkey with a salad or something,
and then there'll be a towards the end
there'll be like a turn it into a turkey
curry or something like that.
>> But on but on the day, yeah, it's a lot
of preparation. This is the thing, you
don't really relax
>> until the evening really because first
of all the kids and the presents and
stuff and then you think, right, I've
got to start preparing
>> uh dinner uh this Christmas big
Christmas dinner, Christmas lunch. Uh,
it's not just me, of course. My wife
does do some of the work as well. I have
to say it's not a [snorts] um, shout out
to my wife for that one. [laughter]
>> But yeah, you got you got your potatoes
to peel and the vegetables and then you
got to get the oven ready because the
turkey can take two to three hours to cook.
cook. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> So, you got to get all this stuff ready.
Maybe a slight break before you start
then serving it all up. So, yeah, you're
working quite a lot really on Christmas day.
day.
>> See, my my Christmas is a little bit
different in that sense. Um I think so
we do have a a small bite to eat at
breakfast but what we tend to do is we
kind of prep the food.
>> All right.
>> We prep the food uh peel the potatoes as
you say and all that and you know get
get everything ready get the the turkey
>> sort of ready to put in the oven and
then we we wander to the pub.
>> Oh right. [laughter]
So we do we do Christmas it's a
tradition with our friends. We go to a
pub and the pubs are only open for two
hours but it's really nice. Everybody
meets up. Merry Christmas. Oh, you know
um and it's it's kind of a nice
tradition. We have a few pints with our
friends and we go to a pub that's really
really cozy and cozy is a key piece of
vocabulary. Uh it's sort of a warm
enclosed kind of emotionally comfortable
space. Our home can feel quite cozy and
so can a pub. Uh, and we go there a
couple of hours and then we go home. And
then I think last year I cooked
Christmas lunch or Christmas, it's kind
of Christmas lunch dinner. It kind of
blends into one. Uh, it's like a massive
meal that goes on for hours seemingly.
>> Um, and usually we eat around 3:00. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> So, it's not really lunch.
>> It's it's it's kind of Yeah. There's no
real It's neither lunch nor dinner, is
it? It's just sort of
>> midafter afternoon really uh when it's
ready. We as as a child we used to sit
down and actually watch the queen's
speech because the queen's speech is on
television at 3:00. Now the king's
speech of course now speech uh it was
always broadcast
>> at 3:00 and I know uh certainly my mom
would want to watch uh the queen and and
look at the speech. It was a 10-minute
speech and then we go and have dinner.
Um yeah, that was a tradition as well.
Yeah, I and this is the thing. It's you
you have a bit of a do and a do is a key
piece of vocabulary. A do is another
word for a party. Slightly it's slightly
informal but a bit oldfashioned, you
know, and it's it ends up being a bit of
a family do. So, when we get back from
the pub and we start cooking, my parents
>> usually come around to our house. So,
they they'll sort of because they don't
really like to get up that early, so
they like a kind of relaxed morning. Um,
no chaos. And then maybe we'll save a
couple of presents for for our son to
open. Either that or he'll go before the
pub to their house. Um, just to open
something. But usually they come over uh
and then they they eat and before
Christmas lunch. We can talk about what
we eat for Christmas lunch in a moment.
But there's loads of nibbles around,
isn't there? [laughter] Loads of
nibbles. There's always nibbles around. >> Um,
>> Um,
>> these are like crisp crisps and nuts. Yeah,
Yeah,
>> bowls of things you can just literally
snack on.
>> Peanuts. This is a key piece of
vocabulary. Nibbles. Yeah, small snacks.
So, you casually eaten over long
periods. Uh, and it just keeps people a
bit more,
>> you know, bit bit more content while
they're drinking.
>> Um, but this is this is the thing. So,
yeah, we we start off we have Christmas
dinner at around 3 and that sort of goes
on till about 4 or 5. Lots of wine, uh,
some champagne maybe, maybe, um, maybe
some spirits afterwards. It It gets very heavy.
heavy.
>> Um, and some people do go over the top
at Christmas. This is a key piece of
expression. Uh, key expression, excessive,
excessive,
>> more than expected. Uh, some people go
really over the top at Christmas. We
don't, not that much. Do you go a bit
over the top?
>> You know, I wouldn't say over the top. I
mean, yes, we do eat more than we
normally would. And so, you know, a
regular roast dinner might be roast
chickens and potatoes and a couple of
vegetables. Whereas here, we'd probably
have a choice of
>> four veg. Uh we'd have the turkey, we'd
have the roast potatoes. Then we might
have uh pigs in blankets. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Little sausages wrapped in bacon.
>> Um and little extra things like that
that fill you out. Of course, the other
tradition is must have Christmas
crackers to go with.
>> Oh, yes. crackers,
crackers,
>> which we pull, bang, and inside these
crackers are a little gift and joke
usually, and a paper hat. It's very
important to wear the paper hat.
>> Bad joke, terrible hat, and a a terrible
toy. Unless you buy your crackers, I
don't know where you buy your crackers,
but my crackers just awful.
>> Yeah, I should have I should have
brought some cracker jokes today to read
out. Well, I'll save them, okay? And
I'll read them out on another podcast. Okay,
Okay,
>> we can do we can do a whole podcast
about puns. I just I just did one about
puns. Um, but uh did I tell you at the
moment I'm reading a book about
anti-gravity? It's impossible to put
Um, but anyway, that that's the only pun
I could think of right now.
>> Anyway, moving on. Um,
>> yes, [laughter]
>> but you you talked about going to the
pub, which is interesting because I I
tend to leave the house every day of the
year. I go out for some reason, whether
a walk or to drive somewhere. Christmas
Day is probably the only day of the year
that I don't actually leave the house.
Uh and and because it's winter and the
days are short, you know, by about half
3, it's getting dark outside and then
you don't want to go out anyway. So the
curtains are drawn at 4:00 and you're in
the house for the rest of the day, you know.
know.
>> No. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of that the
feeling of co being cozy at home, isn't
it? Um and I do get it. I mean, it's a
tradition that we've kind of created
with my friends. Um and I I enjoy it,
but probably if somebody said, "No, no,
not this year." I think it'd be very
easy to, you know,
convince people not to [laughter]
>> because it is people like to be at home
on Christmas Day. They like to, you
know, nobody wants to drive or, you
know, it's it's a weird thing. You kind
of, it's the ultimate day to sort of
wind down, except we don't. So, wind
down means to relax gradually after
activity. So, usually Christmas evening,
you do wind down. Um,
>> but you know, it's this idea of escaping
>> any obligations or or or you know, it's
interesting really. Um,
>> I suppose what I do like about Christmas
Day, it's a change from the routine. You
know, you don't do the same things.
>> You don't get up, have breakfast, do the
dishwasher, do the washing, go to work.
It's it's it's a it's a complete change
of Yeah.
>> But it's it's ironic, isn't it? Because
it's a change of routine into its own
routine. It has its own routine that
day. Uh but it's a completely irregular
routine. And and like you say, roast
dinner. You know, we talked about roast
turkey, you can have roast ham, you can
have roast beef, but we typically have a
roast uh which is short for roast dinner.
dinner.
>> Um and we call it Christmas dinner, but
it is just it's a typical roast with a few
few
>> it's just an over
indulgent, I think, Christmas uh roast.
It's you know, it's it's got all the
normal stuff, but a bit more To top it
off, of course, then you have pudding,
don't you? Dessert pudding. Christmas
pudding is the tradition, but that's a
very, very heavy pudding. And when you
pedle that roast dinner, you don't
really want it. So, you might have
something lighter like a trifle or
something like that,
>> and then more alcohol,
>> then more boos.
>> But this this is what I think. I think
you get into this pattern. I think you
you start off light in terms of food and
then Christmas around 12 till 6 you're
just eating and eating and eating and
eating and that seems to prepare us to drink
drink
because so yeah after that the wine
starts flowing and everybody's settling
down and you know and I think that's one reason
reason
>> yeah sorry
>> say yeah after dinner of course yeah a
bit more drinking
>> a lot of people then you were so so full
People sit on the sofa and fall asleep
or things like that, don't they? Um >> yeah,
>> yeah,
>> have a doze, little doze. Um but then
then we go on and do other things like
play games. Do you play games?
>> Um yeah, a few. I mean like sherads I
think is a is a classic one. I mean it's
a bit too I don't think my son's fully
there yet uh for playing sherads. Um
maybe some board games, but again I
think usually in my house it flips to
the the telly, >> right?
>> right?
>> Christmas telly. Um which is interesting
because telly is slang for TV and this
specific things. What what games do you play?
play?
>> Well, I mean again when we were younger
and when the children were younger, we
play your traditional games. We actually
might play musical statues
>> where you you dance to the music. When
the music stops, you freeze and if you
move, you're out. Musical bumps. One
thing we still play and my son likes to
make it is pass the parcel. So you get a
gift and you wrap it in lots and lots of
layers. Yeah.
>> You pass it around the room to the
music. When the music stops, if you're
holding the parcel, you take a layer off
>> and if there's nothing in it, you carry
on until you get to the gift in the
middle. And we still uh we still like
playing past the parcel.
>> You you you play old school rules. >> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> Um Yeah. No, because I I watched an
episode of a TV show. It's a kids TV
show called Bluey and and the this
family now puts a puts a toy on every
lair and then this guy's like, "Well, we
need to play old school rules because
what does that teach children?" Uh, and
then they they grow to love it. Yeah. I
love I love past the parcel. Um, by the
way, I was watching that with my son.
It's not just a [laughter]
>> go on guilty pleasure. Actually, usually
people kind of potter around or potter
about key piece of vocabulary around
home on Christmas day. They um to potter
about or potter around means sort of
move around doing small very unimportant
tasks. Uh so quite commonly we say oh I
spent all Christmas morning pottering
about the house or pottering around the
house. Um but yeah I mean this is the
thing. So I wanted to ask ask you a
question. What how is Christmas
different now
compared to when you were a a child? How
was how is Christmas before the
industrial revolution? Cheeky. Cheeky.
Cheeky. No, I I have very fond memories
of my Christmas child because we used
to, I as I say, get up in the morning,
open the presents, but then we'd pack
everything into the car and we'd drive
down to my auntie and uncle's house who
lived in a bigger house than did
>> down near the coast and my cousins would
be there and we'd have a big dinner
again. Uh we'd play game because then
there were about I suppose there were
eight of us then altogether. So big
group to play games with. Then, as it
turned out, I didn't know at the time,
but my uncle would go out for a walk and
then whilst he was having a walk, uh,
Father Christmas turned up at the door.
>> Oh, strange coincidence. He turned
>> sack full of pre more presents and so
we'd have more presents in the evening.
Um, which was obviously something to
look forward to. Played more games, of
course. And then as a child, you're
allowed to stay up late. That's the
great thing, isn't it?
>> You can stay up late. >> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> No rules. I I wonder that that that
thing about the convenience of your
uncle leaving and Santa coming. Do you
think they didn't like each other?
>> Must have been. I think maybe had a phob
had a phobia of Father Christmas and so
you had to go.
>> Yeah. Yeah,
>> maybe. Um but what what a coincidence.
Um but this
>> that was my Yeah, that was my childhood
Christmases with my cousins and stuff. Now
Now
>> there's fewer of us and we're all
getting a bit older. There's perhaps not
so much uh energy. So, it's more kind
of, as you say, sitting around,
sleeping, watching TV, pottering around.
>> Yeah. I I think that um Yeah, I I I was
thinking about this. So, for me, I know
it's not the most
I don't know, it's not the most amazing
of reasons, but I think what's really
changed for me is Christmas telly,
>> genuinely. So when I was a kid, we had
we didn't have things like Netflix or on
demand where you could just watch what
you wanted when you wanted. At Christmas
time, you would plan your day around the television.
television. >> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> You'd buy a copy of the radio times and
you'd be, "Oh, I want to watch that. I
want to watch that." Oh, 2:00 on, you
know, you'd almost be setting your alarm
for specific times on Christmas Day and
Boxing Day and and Christmas Eve to
watch specific films. and and films
always these big films were always on at Christmas.
Christmas.
>> So Christmas was like this event of
films and you would sit for hours just
watching film after film after film and
what what is your ultimate Christmas film?
film?
>> Oh well, and I'm glad you mentioned this
because you're quite right. So TV was an
appointment to view. You had to make an
appointment to watch something. You
couldn't record it. You couldn't stream
it. You had to watch it when it was on
TV. Good point. So, and the big
highlight at Christmas was always they
showed a James Bond film. >> Oh,
>> Oh,
>> it was always your Christmas films are
James Bond.
>> James Bond. Yeah, they did, didn't they?
They did. So, for me, I I remember the
same three trilogies. So, nine films,
three films of three, three trilogies.
And it was always, it used to be quite
often Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,
Boxing Day, and potentially New Year's
Eve, New Year's Day, and the Day after
uh that these three films always
appeared. And it was the original
Indiana Jones trilogy. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> The original Star Wars trilogy. So on
Christmas Day, you often got Empire
Strikes Back.
>> Yes. uh you know, Return of the Jedi was
on Boxing Day or it was Back to the
Future or sometimes all three. Um and
and that's why when people say, "What is
your ultimate Christmas film?" Obviously
Die Hard, obviously Gremlins. Um those
are Christmy films for me. Uh but I
always say Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and
Back to the Future because those are the
films that I associate watching with my
grandparents, my uncles, my aunt, you
know, and getting everybody watching.
Oh, Back to the Future's on and I must I
must have seen it about 50 times. I must
have done over my life, but every year I
not that I'm, you know, been watching
it. It
>> was a real treat, wasn't it? Getting the
film you really wanted to be able to
watch on the on the TV. And of course,
the other thing alongside the films, a
lot of these shows have Christmas
specials, don't they?
>> The day for a Christmas special, a
comedy show Christmas special or a drama
Christmas special. You know,
>> didn't only Fools and Horses often have
Christmas special festivals?
>> Yes, they did.
>> Last year the big one was Gavin and
Stacy, a long road sitcom and they the
story came to an end with a big long
almost filmic kind of Christmas special
which got a lot of viewers.
>> Did you watch it?
>> I did actually. Actually, it was really
good I have to say.
>> Yeah, I I didn't I I never got into it
uh really. I I kind of missed the boat
on that one. um the whole series. I
think it was just when I was at an age
where I wasn't watching much TV. So,
>> okay. Miss the boat. That's a good expression.
expression.
>> Good, isn't it? Yeah, missed the boat is
when you miss an opportunity or miss
miss an event. Yeah. Um good. Thank you
[laughter] for pointing that out. Um but
yeah, I think yeah, and we definitely
need to do a podcast about Only Fools
and Horses. Uh because that special I
think it was in 1996 is the most watched sitcom
sitcom
>> episode I believe ever.
>> Um the singular maybe well certainly
British TV I believe and it was
basically half of the country tuned in
to watch it. >> Amazing.
>> Amazing.
>> And it was the one where they finally
became millionaires but anyway um but I
think but yeah this is this is the thing
the whole events
>> of of of Christmas telly it's lost now.
My son just goes, "Oh, just watch that.
Just pause it."
>> Yeah, it's it's spoiled that convers
everyone having to watch come together
to watch one program together. It's like
watching the World Cup final. It's the
only time that everyone is watching at
the same time, you know. But, you know,
it seems generally though a lot of
people's Christmas days are centered
around TV. Really?
>> Food and TV, isn't it? [laughter]
>> TV. Yeah.
>> Give a give people a day where they can
do anything. They just eat and watch television.
television. >> [laughter]
>> [laughter] >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
Oh dear. So, yeah. So, to recap, I mean,
a lot of people say, "What are you doing
for Christmas? Same old." Or some people
say, "Same old, same old." This is an
affectionate expression for repeated
traditions. Uh, yeah, same old routine
this Christmas, same old things this
Christmas. It's like nothing new, but
it's kind of positive. Um, so we get up
in the morning, presents, both of us do
that. Uh, and then we both sort of
prepare the food, but I pop to the pub.
And then we eat, drink, we be merry. You
play games and I watch TV. And then
slowly but surely you kind of stop start
dropping. You start dropping off on the
drop off is when we fall asleep. Start
dropping off on the sofa, don't you?
Like you got your glass of wine. And you
always see that relative
>> with the wine starting to tip and you're
like, "Oh,
not red wine on the sofa." >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Because there, you know, and is a lot of
sort of snoozing where you lightly sleep
on Christmas day. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. It's great. Can't wait. Can't
wait. Bring it on. 25th of December.
>> On that note, let us know your Christmas
Day traditions. Do you find anything we
said a bit weird or wonderful? And if
you want to support this podcast, you
can buy a cup of tea uh for us down in
the the comments below. And there's even
some exclusive material that you can
learn related to the subject we talked
about today. But from me, I just want to
say merry Christmas. Thank you very much
for joining us, everybody. Merry
Christmas, Rob. And I'll see you in the
next podcast.
>> Yeah. Merry Christmas, Roy. Merry
Christmas everybody. It's been a
fantastic year here on our podcast,
hasn't it?
>> Yes, it has. It's been a wonderful It's
been Oh gosh, we're going to turn into
It's a wonderful life. Uh [laughter]
but yeah, it has been a good year and
here's to many more years. Um thank you
very much, Rob. You go like, "Okay, [laughter]
thank you very much, Rob. I'll see you
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