BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
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- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
..more ...ticking the boxes?
wot is boxingday for
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Dave5N
Über Member
- Location
- Outside The Little Nibble
Nope. Boxing Day 'Cross
Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
It's a day to be used in exercising off the excesses of Christmas Dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Keith Oates said:
Oh no it's not!!!
In our household it's the day of the 'Boxing Day Fry Up'
- Hand cut home made chips
- Fried egg
- Bacon - smoked and unsmoked
- Mushrooms
- Black pudding
- Three varieties of sausages
- Fried tomatoesbread
- Baked beans
- Fried bread
- Hammond Chop Sauce
- Daddy's brown sauce
- Tomato sauce
- Mugs of tea and bread and butter.
It's the family's second favourite meal after Christmas dinner. It's also the only fry up of the year.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
It is the day when everyone queues at the dump to ditch their boxes of course! Olde English tradition.
Feeling a bit peckish vernon?
Feeling a bit peckish vernon?
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Aperitif said:It is the day when everyone queues at the dump to ditch their boxes of course! Olde English tradition.
Feeling a bit peckish vernon?
Too right I am!!
There's twelve hours to go before I get my chops round that lot
yorkshiregoth
Master of all he surveys
- Location
- Heathrow
I believe it was when the poor boxes at churches were distributed.
mr_hippo
Living Legend & Old Fart
It comes from the days when people still had household and outdoor staff when it was customary for the employer to give his staff presents on the day after Christmas.
Also from those days comes the names of meals. How many of us say 'breakfast, dinner & tea' and how many say 'breakfast, lunch & dinner'? Until fairly recent times, the evening meal was a formal affair. Now, if the servents were downstairs having a formal meal then who would serve upstairs? That is when the servants served a light lunch upstairs before sitting down to their dinner - at lunchtime.
In my childhood, the evening meal (called 'tea' in our house!) was served at the table and the TV was off; we had no choice as there was a 'TV truce' at the time - The BBC and later on ITV did not transmit between 6 and 7pm.
On the same theme are school dinners still called school dinners? For a lot of people of my generation - school dinner was the only hot meal that they had!
Also from those days comes the names of meals. How many of us say 'breakfast, dinner & tea' and how many say 'breakfast, lunch & dinner'? Until fairly recent times, the evening meal was a formal affair. Now, if the servents were downstairs having a formal meal then who would serve upstairs? That is when the servants served a light lunch upstairs before sitting down to their dinner - at lunchtime.
In my childhood, the evening meal (called 'tea' in our house!) was served at the table and the TV was off; we had no choice as there was a 'TV truce' at the time - The BBC and later on ITV did not transmit between 6 and 7pm.
On the same theme are school dinners still called school dinners? For a lot of people of my generation - school dinner was the only hot meal that they had!
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beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
At this moment, Boxing Day is for -
a) Son - going to town to see what games console bargains he can pick up (having bought himself an XBox 360 for pre-Christmas and spent most of yesterday telling me that Call of Duty is far superior to Medal of Honor)
Daughter - staying in her pyjamas until as close to dinnertime as possible and then having a bath that uses up all the hot water
c) Mrs B - Currently ironing while listening to Take That, Michael Bublé and Will Young (not necessarily all at the same time)
d) Me - doing a bit of paperwork to lessen the blow of being back at the day job on Monday.
All - eating way less than yesterday.
a) Son - going to town to see what games console bargains he can pick up (having bought himself an XBox 360 for pre-Christmas and spent most of yesterday telling me that Call of Duty is far superior to Medal of Honor)
Daughter - staying in her pyjamas until as close to dinnertime as possible and then having a bath that uses up all the hot waterc) Mrs B - Currently ironing while listening to Take That, Michael Bublé and Will Young (not necessarily all at the same time)
d) Me - doing a bit of paperwork to lessen the blow of being back at the day job on Monday.
All - eating way less than yesterday.
jpembroke
New Member
- Location
- Cheltenham
1) fell running
2) eating biscuits
that's it!
2) eating biscuits
that's it!
Alan Biles
Senior Member
- Location
- Salisbury, England
A quick 20 mile pootle around the Woodford Valley. Just got back. Lots of people out on new bikes.
The Boxing Day 'fry-up' comes later.
The Boxing Day 'fry-up' comes later.
Priscilla Parsley
New Member
- Location
- Manchester
vernon said:
wowzers thats a breakfast!
Gerry Attrick
Lincolnshire Mountain Rescue Consultant
Definitely a day for getting some bike miles in.......especially if it's sunny like today. I can use roads I wouldn't normally use because there is little traffic and specifically no 40 tonners. A bit of exercise also lets me eat my Boxing Day grub with less of a conscience.
