MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS PAST video Colin C.

[@susancoulthard4414]

So many happy memories , the milk on the doorstep ,the smelln9f xmas food cooking ,all the extended family ,tucking in ,sixpence in the pudding.!! Trying a snowball,or babycham. And my mums trifle, at tea time. All gone now ,but a cosy and secure childhood. Xx❤

[@chasidahL]

What precious memories of a time long gone, but never forgotten. Thanks for the lovely walk down memory lane, Colin. Xmas, then, was just about food, family, friends and fun! The apple & orange really made me smile! 😊. A simpler time, but all the better for it. Hope you and Carole are well. Thanks for the post

[@gabrielletanner5339]

Yup paper chains, chinese 🏮 lanterns...we are all similar age.

[@AF-wr9hx]

Love this, you don’t realise what you have till it’s gone!

[@rogertotty689]

thank you for the happy momories

[@alanhindmarch4483]

Thanks Colin for refreshing my memories of Christmas and Winters in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. My Mam having extra pairs of gloves and socks drying and warming in front of the fire, so you could just nip in to change out of your wet ones and back out again. I remember every winter suffering with itchy Chilblains on my Toes, who else got them. But still didn’t stop you going out to get wet all over again.

[@jameshardy6277]

Magical video Colin. As a kid of the 80s I miss those day very much.

[@helenwallace2882]

Oh my word, I must have grown up in the same time span! My grandparents lived in leaholme cres which had a round window half way up the stairs. I used to stare out of it willing it to snow so we could make snowmen. I always made a Christmas cake in home economics and to this day my mum expects me to make one and I’m in my 60’s. Those Christmas tree decorations are ones we had plus chocolate foil covered ones. You used to count the number of trees in peoples windows all lit up whilst you came back from Christmas shopping. Making paper chains with crepe paper was another must and going to jumble sales and school fetes for affordable presents using pocket money. My grandparents used to ring a small bell pretending to be Santa. Fruit in the Christmas stocking was always found at the bottom of my dad’s borrowed socks…clean ones😉 along with chocolate money. All just great memories which have all changed now I live in Australia, it’s hot weather (which I hate) cicadas a type of bug which is very noisy even bordering on deafening. I still make all the normal Christmas lunch which is exhausting in the heat. The Christmas trees here have droopy branches which you buy from Christmas tree farms. I certainly prefer the simpler Christmas of our childhood.

[@patmillar961]

So many great memories but ooh didn't the wellies hurt when they slapped against your cold legs 😂. Thank u 👍

[@rogertotty689]

lovely pictures

[@mccafan5438]

Awesome memories..cheers for video😂😂😢😂😂

[@carolec.outandabout1160]

Brilliant video hubby. So many special memories ❤xxx

[@paulblackwell4073]

Brilliant photographs!!

[@lunapuella2611]

I'd give up all my future Christmases just to go back for one of those childhood Christmases with my parents, brother, Nana and Grandma.

[@alanpercival840]

I am 72 my dad made me a sledge about 68yr ago i still have it the wood lats have been replaced a few times but metal frame original had a hard life my grandchildren are too old now i think it will go down my allotment with a couple of tubs on it winters are just not the same

[@Tirana44]

What a cracking video. Happy memories galore. I’m still a Christmas nut’ at 65, can’t see me changing now. Thanks for posting this, now, where’s my selection box?

[@grantjamieson4291]

Now fun is all connected with an i phone screen. Less human, more an amalgamation of the digital garbage that pumped through a device welded to the hand and mind.

[@Devonshireoldfart]

Egg nog, paper chains, crepe paper decoratins, the smell of pine from the tree, family quarrels, sherry, turkey, stuffing, sausages in bacon, cranberry sauce, pillowcase stuffed on Christmas morning, Morecambe and Wise, Val Doonican xmas specials, Andy Williams, Slade, afternoon walk which as kids we hated, but as a dad made mine do, walking in the countryside blowing the cobwebs away, then back for the evening film on TV. I no longer watch or pay for a licence now, fed up with opinions,propaganda and lies as well as repeats. My daughter,husband and granddaughter will be staying over this xmas, the village is still England luckily, with all the local poitics and scandals that go with it.