Whats everyone doing at Christmas?

[Sniper]

Just curious as to what everyone else is up to at Christmas?

I dont have any family to worry about (All of them moved to Aussie) so I dont have to wake up early or anything. Hehe, then I can watch some TV (Is there anything good on a Xmas day??) have my sausage roll and a coke and then go out for a ride to see what the rest of the world is doing.

Its good not having any ties or commitments but sad at the same time. Yep, and time to crank out the smallest violin in the world for me. :laugh:

Have a safe and merry Christmas all, and to all a Happy New Year!

Stu :apint:

[svs]

Racing at Wanganui (well sign-on xmas day, race boxing day). Better than watching the telly. If you're looking for something to do then trundle down to wanganui - there'll be plenty of likeminded souls there.

(er. just noticed you're in blenheim. might be a tad difficult to ride over the straights)

[Devil]

rotorua from boxing day for a couple of days, then I dont know. Someone muttered about some cricket match in napier around the 29th...

Xmas day will be in Auckland, might be round at my brothers place.

[Juan]

Freezing :cold: ..... probably....just for one more year then sunshine with you guys

[dhunt]

Maybe sailing or just visiting my Mum and little brother and sister as they're around for a couple weeks.

[Quasievil]

Eating drinking farting.

[jimbo600]

All my family are overseas too. So I'll spend the festive season pissed or out on my bike or working.

[Cajun]

this year, the wifes family has decided since we got a new house, and its in the middle of everyone we have xmas, lovely, there goes my peaceful xmas, its her family, mine are in auckland, brisbane, and i don't really have much to do with them. Would rather be out on the bike, oh well

[jrandom]

I'm working through. Taking a few days off to go camping this weekend before the rush, then saving my work leave up for a February break, or mebbe skiing next year.

Other than working, will be sitting around, drinking beer, eyeing up the front yard and thinking about a new fence, finishing off Neal Stephenson's The System of the World. Taking the kids to beaches.

Very unexciting.

[ajturbo]

this year, the wifes family has decided since we got a new house, and its in the middle of everyone we have xmas, lovely, there goes my peaceful xmas, its her family, mine are in auckland, brisbane, and i don't really have much to do with them. Would rather be out on the bike, oh well

hey Cajun......
why don't i come around, drop luke off and we could go for a ride :innocent:

[Cajun]

hey Cajun......
why don't i come around, drop luke off and we could go for a ride :innocent:
no doubt i won't be allowed out of the house )c:<

[claire]

to the Gold Coast and back on the 30th in time for new years at Waihi Beach. Off work till the 10th but I'm sure it woun't be hard finding something to fill the days.

Claire

[Velox]

Church in morn, whanau over for lunch and then a whole pile of assorted people over for bbq dinner. Same as usual - it's always a bit of fun.

[James Deuce]

Freezing :cold: ..... probably....just for one more year then sunshine with you guys
Please remember that NZ spans the temperate and sub-temperate zones of the Southern Hemisphere.

Just so you won't be totally disappointed like.

[Biff]

Rising with the first light on the day of birth of our lord Jesus Christ. Praising our father for the blessed things that the year has brought onto us, praying that all man kind can finally place its misguided intolerances behind it and be capable of turning to our brothers and sisters and embrace them in the love of the holy ghost.

Then get really pissed, insult the family, start a fight with the neighbour and shag my wifes best friend - i love xmas!!

[MrMelon]

I'll be going to Akl for xmas day to hang out with the family, then up to Kerikeri for a week, and then to the coromandel for Resolution 05 for new years! :D

[jrandom]

Rising with the first light on the day of birth of our lord Jesus Christ.

Sigh.

Jesus can't possibly have been born on 25 December. Believe it or not, we've even covered *that* on the forum before, so I'll let you do a search for the details.


Parising our father

Is that where you hit him around the head with baguettes and runny cheese before beating his record through rush-hour traffic around a ring road?


shag my wifes best friend

Try having your *wife* shag her best friend.

[Devil]

I'll be going to Akl for xmas day to hang out with the family, then up to Kerikeri for a week, and then to the coromandel for Resolution 05 for new years! :D
Slapper!
Riding up?

[manuboy]

Rising with the first light on the day of birth of our lord Jesus Christ. Parising our father for the blessed things that the year has brought onto us, praying that all man kind can finally place its misguided intolerances behind it and be capable of turning to our brothers and sisters and embrace them in the love of the holy ghost.

Then get really pissed, insult the family, start a fight with the neighbour and shag my wifes best friend - i love xmas!!

Man.... i hope your wifes best friend ain't a guy or a dog.... brrrrrrrr..... :no:

[vifferman]

Eating drinking farting.Would that be special Christmas farts? :spudwhat:

Oh forget it - I really don't want to know. :eek:

I'm off to Papamoa for Christmas with the vifferbabe's family. O joy.
(Marginally better than my mental family...)

[Biff]

Rising with the first light on the day of birth of our lord Jesus Christ.

Covered it already? Wow you guys are deep. For what it's worth - Jesus was apparently born in March according to the Old Testiment. December 25th was the Pagan day for celebrating the end of the year and paying homage to mother earth. The Catholics adopted the day in an attempt to appease the Pagans and several centuries later the rest of the christian religions that were spawned from Catholisism began claiming it was the day Christ was born on.

I know this is a fact cos a bloke down the pub said.

[dss3]

Off to Perth untill the 4th to see what a summer and sunshine really is :2thumbsup: , then once i'm bleck from bumming around on the beaches it's off to matarangi (coromandel) untill 17th or there abouts. If anyone's heading up coromandel for a ride gimme a txt on 0212965422. Better make it early in the morning before i'm drunk though :beer: ....

_Daryl

[MrMelon]

Slapper!
Riding up?

Yeah riding up on the 23rd

[jrandom]

Covered it already? Wow you guys are deep. For what it's worth - Jesus was apparently born in March according to the Old Testiment. December 25th was the Pagan day for celebrating the end of the year and paying homage to mother earth. The Catholics adopted the day in an attempt to appease the Pagans and several centuries later the rest of the christian religions that were spawned from Catholisism began claiming it was the day Christ was born on.

Etc, etc, etc.

But we still need to hear more about your wife's best friend, like.

[Cajun]

Would that be special Christmas farts? :spudwhat:

Oh forget it - I really don't want to know. :eek:

I'm off to Papamoa for Christmas with the vifferbabe's family. O joy.
(Marginally better than my mental family...)
drop us a line if ya wanna say hello while down this way if ya got some spare time on ya hands dc:<

[MOTOXXX]

Ill be with the family christmas day.
Then ill be going to wanganui for the racing as per usual.
27th i fly out to Brisbane, hang out there for a few days and then to Byron Bay for new years. Come back on 5th and back to work.

[Biff]

Etc, etc, etc.

But we still need to hear more about your wife's best friend, like.

wine, more wine, video camera etc etc

[Skyryder]

Rising with the first light on the day of birth of our lord Jesus Christ. Praising our father for the blessed things that the year has brought onto us, praying that all man kind can finally place its misguided intolerances behind it and be capable of turning to our brothers and sisters and embrace them in the love of the holy ghost.

Then get really pissed, insult the family, start a fight with the neighbour and shag my wifes best friend - i love xmas!!

For a minite I thought, hey Zed's back, but then I read the last sentance. "Good on ya mate."

Skyryder

[NC]

House sitting my boss's house :innocent:

I'll be all alone for Xmas...:D

[MSTRS]

Freezing :cold: ..... probably....just for one more year then sunshine with you guys
Bring the bike since I gave up & went home :crybaby:

[Skyryder]

Me? I'm doing the "Grand Tour" of the North Island starting on the 27 December. Welly night at Paul in NZ then up to New Plymouth to see a guy I have not seen in sixteen odd years. Through to Tauramanui and Auckland, meet the wife. A trip up to as far north as pos then back to Tauranga where I want to meet up withand old friend that I have not seen since I was fifteen or sixteen. Scoot down to the National Park, Chataeu and Mt Ruapahu where I worked as a ski bum. Waouru Taihape Taupo and the central North island not necessarily in that order. Back to Tauranga and then off to kauwarau (paper mill) worked on drilling rigs in there and at Wairakei in the mid sixties. In short ladies and gentleman I'm going back to some of my old haunts. Most of the people that I knew in those days are long gone, so if you see a black Guzzi with a white sheepskin saddle Skyryder's about.

Skyryder

[Yamahamaman]

Just curious as to what everyone else is up to at Christmas?

I dont have any family to worry about (All of them moved to Aussie) so I dont have to wake up early or anything. Hehe, then I can watch some TV (Is there anything good on a Xmas day??) have my sausage roll and a coke and then go out for a ride to see what the rest of the world is doing.

Its good not having any ties or commitments but sad at the same time. Yep, and time to crank out the smallest violin in the world for me. :laugh:

Have a safe and merry Christmas all, and to all a Happy New Year!

Stu :apint:
Mow the lawns, you get to know your neighbours really quickly :yes:

Well that's what I do anyway.

[SPman]

Fuck all!

Why?

got a problem with that?

[erik]

Christmas day... Wake up, open presents with siblings and parents (I'm still living at home), bum around most of the day, then go to the annual family gathering for dinner (usually granddad does a roast lamb on a spit).
Quiet, but I'm looking forward to it :)

[Ms Piggy]

Flying to ChCh Xmas eve to hang out with my family. I get to see my cousins (including the new twins), my sister, my 2 goegeous neices, my Grandparents and 2 Aunty's and my Uncle. All gooooood! I love Xmas and my whanau.

[thehollowmen]

The in-laws who don't know they are inlaws are coming down from Norway. We're going to Wanaka for Christmas, then heading back to Dunners, then to Whakatane for the new years when the bombshell will be dropped. :love:

Yeah not too sure what we should be doing at Christmas for them. Any suggestions? What are the normal Kiwi things to do / eat over christmas?

And what is up with the typing today? Some words start typing backwards and its getting annoying?
keiL today started out before as aydoT... Meh
and my fingersn't on the back arrow.

[Kickaha]

Heading through to Wanganui for the racing with Stevo and Chic n Charge,
unfortunately just as a spectator this year and hoping to meet a few more KB members at the event.

[Hooks]

Well, the kids and I are firing up the BBQ early on Xmas day and it won't be going out until after the party on New Years !! :innocent: ..... well only to change the bottle as I doubt it will go the distance :no: ..... We thought we might get out and play a mini-putt challenge too :cool2: .... and then it's just a matter of sitting around and seeing who turns up for the rage on the 31st :headbang: .... and doing heaps of riding too of course .... :stoogie:

[Yokai]

Whitianga on Christmas Eve, back to work on 29th, back to Whiti on 31st back to work on 5th I think... But we have friends staying too or something -

Ask the missus - how would I know

[Slim]

Xmas morning with my family, big brekkie, opening presents, etc. Then The Man & I are heading down to Wanganui because he & Mitch are (hopefully - they haven't had confirmation yet) racing in F3 on Boxing Day. We'll stay down there Boxing Day night too, and then I'm not sure what's happening. We're both working the 3 days between Xmas & New Year.

No confirmed plans for New Years yet.



Except ... Lots of :drinknsin :drinknsin :drinknsin & hopefully no :thud: or :puke:

[toads]

well we will be staying home for the first time in 20 years, normally we go to my Mums place, this year the kids all wanted to have time at home with just hte immediate family, which is great, we will eat far too much and just hang out together, if it's fine we'll be swimming, if it's not we'll be watching videos and playing video games, no excuse for having a crap day!
Having all 6 kids home will be pretty full on I'm picking

[Skunk]

Champagne for breakfast, bit of food, bit of the wife :innocent: , bit of a lie in. Fuck off on the bikes... :msn-wink:

[Slipstream]

... I'll be watching the girls open the truckload of pressies they've been given, followed by a glass or two of wine. Then off to a family get together, full of awkward moments and a bottle or two of wine. Then off to another family get together, full of awkward questions and a case or two of wine.... ba humbug!

Hopefully, I will remember to turn when I :puke: bah, they're family, they wont mind. :innocent:

[James Deuce]

I f__king hate Christmas.

The ONLY redeeming feature is watching the kids have fun with the wrapping paper.

The rest of the family give me the sh_ts. It's just an excuse to compare the biggest winners and losers in the familial circle, and to publicly expose everyone's particular foibles.

Thankfully, I will be spending it with Heather, William, and Jacob, the only people I know who are unequivocally happy to see me every day.

Bah Humbug.

I hope you all get lumps of coal.

Where's my F__king bike?

Bah Humug.

[Motoracer]

I don't know about Christmas but I'll be heading to the Mount on Fri the 31st in my Van cause I wana take the Surfboard, MTB, roller blades, double bed etc etc.

I'll be staying for the Fri and Sat nights and comming back on Sunday night.

If any of you guys are in the area around that time and want to say hi, give me a text on 021 155 9376.

[Hitcher]

Mrs H gets Christmas Day off this year, which is a rare treat. Most years I get to wave her farewell at about 2:00pm as she heads off to the "Jellimeat Factory".

We're doing the family-lunch-at-home thingee, together with some family friends. I get to make my Famous Trifle® and over-eat. Woo hoo!

If all goes well, Mrs H and I may get a chance to slope off later in the evening and have a wee fang...

[spudchucka]

I can't believe my luck this year, I've got 24,25,26,27 off. This is the first time I've had Xmas day off for years! Have to work new years eve though but thats usually heaps of fun anyway. We're having a family Xmas in the Naki.

[RiderInBlack]

I'm doing the "Grand Tour" of the North Island starting on the 27 December. SkyryderYou all drop us a line if'n your up our way, yer hear. Your more than welcome to stay at my place if your heading past Whangarei and on your way to Kerikeri or Kaitia. With a bit of lucky and planning I could make sure I have no work that day (self-employed), then "Roxanne" and I could show you the back roads up here.
X-mas: Lunch at Older Brother place, followed by "Clan Gathering" for dinner at Parent's place. No escape for me as I live just a 100m away (bugger, I wanted to go to the Cem Circuit MC Race too).
No plans for New Year yet (anything will do as long as it is not more family).

[Motu]

This is the first year I haven't had to rack my brains trying to find a present for my mother,or fit our visit to her around our other plans for the day.The strong whanau of my childhood has faded away,just one auntie left and I might ring some cuzzies at some stage just to let them know I'm still around.A day that is mainly about our family,although the eldest daughter will be going to OZ Xmas eve.We will have to make an appearance at the inlaws at somestage - I will be my usual beligerent grumpy self and pick a fight or make snide remarks to one of my brother in laws,then stomp off to be by myself for a while (which is all I really want) We buy so many presents for the kids that we have to spread out the giving over several days - it's not uncommon to hear me say...ho,ho,ho,merry day after boxing day,and hand out more presents.This is the 4th Xmas in a row we have spent in a different house,we get around....

[dangerous]

nothing................... well not quite nothing I am planning a sleep in, then open my pressie to myself... but Spank me is having trouble getting the 12 shirts he needs to print up so I probley wont be doing that... guess I can sleep in for another 2 min's.... and then I am going or my compulsary ride to Akaroa, no traffic... yeahhhhh.

skyrider..... take it easy up there old dude, find the thread here that lists the KBers that can help out if them dodgy electrics play up :whistle:

[savvy]

we'r spose to be going up north camping to being with so hopefully the weather will clear up for that :argh: then going down to wellington to check out the nightlife and in between will be riding and being taught how to wakeboard :niceone: shud be good!!

[stevedee]

Nice day on the 25th, up and out, Rimutuka and back before breakfast

[2_SL0]

My god Im not the only one with a completely mental family. I would love to say that everything will run like a well oiled machine as we move from one family function to the next. But it just doesnt happin like that. We have the obvious awkward moments where someone has said something that someone else doesnt know. Then theres the "Oh your leaving already" Followed by the pauses and mumbling of we off to the other partners family. So it ussually works out that I end up eating 2 Chrissy lunches and three dinners. Ussually I have offended one of the family, which I find out on Boxing day, WHEN it is all repeated. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH :brick:

[dangerous]

and being taught how to wakeboard :niceone: shud be good!!
awesome is the wakeboard.... should be out doing the same, but ya have to watch them things I knocked myself out on one of them.... I'm used to sking behind a jet boat with little wake but that time I was behind the old mans Crusader with a large wake I got a tad too much air time up and landed nose 1st sending me head 1st into the drink....... still fun tho

[ajturbo]

I can't believe my luck this year, I've got 24,25,26,27 off. This is the first time I've had Xmas day off for years! Have to work new years eve though but thats usually heaps of fun anyway. We're having a family Xmas in the Naki.


hey spud......
can you tell your mates in the naki to pull over ALL toyota estima's...
and wind up all the women that have dogs with them.....

one might just be my X ..... :whistle: :whistle:

[ajturbo]

I don't know about Christmas but I'll be heading to the Mount on Fri the 31st in my Van cause I wana take the Surfboard, MTB, roller blades, double bed etc etc.

I'll be staying for the Fri and Sat nights and comming back on Sunday night.

If any of you guys are in the area around that time and want to say hi, give me a text on 021 155 9376.


bummer mate, i need to be shown how to ride a surf board!! and i will be in palmy!!!
otherwise i would be there!!!!!!!!!! :spudbooge :doctor:

[Hooks]

bummer mate, i need to be shown how to ride a surf board!! and i will be in palmy!!!
otherwise i would be there!!!!!!!!!! :spudbooge :doctor:
Hey buddy ... you wanna come to my New Years eve party ?? ... PM me if you want to .... We are kid friendly( I have 4 !!) and we can sit around drinking and slagging off at our ex's !! :whistle:

[ajturbo]

Hey buddy ... you wanna come to my New Years eve party ?? ... PM me if you want to .... We are kid friendly( I have 4 !!) and we can sit around drinking and slagging off at our ex's !! :whistle:

thanks...
we are actully going to be in ..Himatangy (sp?) at my mate's place (farm) where we are going to have beer, fire works, beer, wine, beer, some beer and after that some beer and just to great the morning i think there just may be some beer...............

go some things i want to forget about....

[Hooks]

thanks...
we are actully going to be in ..Himatangy (sp?) at my mate's place (farm) where we are going to have beer, fire works, beer, wine, beer, some beer and after that some beer and just to great the morning i think there just may be some beer...............

go some things i want to forget about....
Sweet as man !! :done: Give it heaps and have plenty of fun .. :whistle: ... Oh & have a beer or six too !! :apint:

Catch ya ..

[avgas]

down to tauranga xmas eve, to have my 1st xmas wif my new nephew. Then xmas lunch i boogie over to whanga and spend xmas night wif me fathers side. T :apint:
then by strike of magic my motorbike magically appears at whanga and boxing morn we boot it down to wanganui.
Need to take the cage cos the stormvehicle is comfy for the mrs.
But somehow ill figure how to get both down there - may ask the old man to take it down with him, next time hes up.

[Al]

Christmas morning will be opening pressies, breakfast of champers, cheese (variety), biscuits, caviar (my missus has the tradition...!!). Rest of the day is spent lazing around, drinking beer and eating far too much.
New year we will be in Waipu, going down afternoon of 31st, will spend the 1st at the Highland Games.

Al

[MSTRS]

I can't believe my luck this year, I've got 24,25,26,27 off. This is the first time I've had Xmas day off for years! Have to work new years eve though but thats usually heaps of fun anyway. We're having a family Xmas in the Naki.
Snap - in NP 24-27 with family, maybe catch up in person? I won't be the one trying to lay a patch on Devon from Liardet to Gover whilst DUI.