KIP covid thread

Lads its gonna be a fuckin weird one

Anyone got kip-worthy covid christmas plans?

How are ye making the best of it?

Ive sent a ball of cards, first time in years

Dropped presents at doors and ran away (have been informed since that i got at least two wrong doors, ah well)

Travelling west to stay with her folks for a day on 23rd- both vulnerable so we've been fairly strictly isolating- then i will head to spend it with the brother, which will mean a lot of cleaning, repairs and cooking if history is any teller. But it will be good to get that done and see him.

Heading back up after a few days and have no idea what things will be like at that stage, had hoped to see a few more ppl but that looks less and less likely.

Not awful kip admittedly but it's something

I expect to zoom many present openings, godchildren and nephew are good ages for it

I've *had* more cards than recent years, one of which I found quite touching.

(Only 4 but that's 3 more than usual)

I'd've normally been traveling today and would've got there to find out that what I was doing was now illegal (mixing for more than the 1 day), except i cancelled plans last week, so am spending the first Christmas in 54 alone.

I bought a Christmas pudding today for the first time ever.

Oh, discovered that herself makes excellent mince pies, given sufficient motivation, have eaten two mince pies a day since tuesday

christmas baking has definitely helped my mood, practicing my pastry making, along with cookies, and mince pies & shortbread

the process, even the baking smells, just maintaining this small simple tradition has helped me kip

feeling a bit at sea without christmas eve mass this yr -not really religious at all but it’s how i have stayed “connected” w my departed family members, i think is another reason i have been leaning on baking. form of communion? idk

I get the mass thing, even if id skip it meself more often than not: the midnight mass is a lovely tradition

We're doing our own xmas dinner for two before heading down

Partridges

Dont ask

Haven't been home for xmas for 7 years so honestly dont mind just having it at home with my wife, although she is sad she can't he with her mother who lives alone in the suburbs.

Customary WhatsApp video call with the family back in lanarkshire around noon,an embarrassment of food - going to do Yorkshire puds,roast potatoes,Brussels,stuffing and a chicken (making a seasonal exception to my usual pescatarian diet and Turkey seems too big for 2) - and lots of Christmas telly which will have been acquired via torrents or found on streaming ahead of time. no bevvy as I'm recently off it,which will be novel - I've taken a drink at christmas for the last 20 years. But having it at home makes that easier. My smoke a joint in the evening

Xmas tree

Fair fucks on droppin the booze jim

Lockdown been good for that tbh, tho i take a drop at home but never to excess unlike when out

Amazingly,, this year will be the first time that my wife and I will actually wake up together in our own house on Christmas day. It will be very nice. Christmas with family and gatherings and church and traveling and visiting is fun, but I am very much looking forward to seeing what it’s like to have one quiet holiday at home.

Long, cold, clear walk in the park still legal and safe

So, which one is it?

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/KIP

Long, cold, clear walk in the park still legal and safe

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 December 2020 16:21 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this one's u&k

^ the whole basis of my sanity, or what's left of it

Happy we decided to stay put a few weeks back (or in-laws decided not risk it even with tests etc) as have ordered a chicken from the farm shop and bought a ridiculous pile of 'christmas treats' already so don't need to get much or change plans etc.
Took my 6yo on a 2-hour round trip to drop presents at my parents' (staying outside) and, well, this is the KIP thread but let's say I now feel positive about not spending Christmas with them :|
Kids will have fun with food, telly and presents so won't be missing out.

> So, which one is it?

Keep it positive

Im KIP by treating poms contributions recently as

obtuse

I'm flattered.

I won't get to see my parents for Christmas, so I'mma KIP by picking up a bottle of Rémy Martin.

Fuck that’s a great idea

Oh we just finished our own little christmas dinner (before doing all the shared ones) and opened 1/2 of our presents to each other- glenlivet 15 yr old

Very nice, very christmassy tbh

I'm thrilled about not having to deal with domineering Trumpoid in-laws, frankly.

Ive to do one day with himself, tis enough

glenlivet 15 yr old

My dad's a fan. It's 80.50 CAD (51.50 EUR) for a 750 ml bottle here – how much is it in Ireland, pray tell?

Maybe not the real KIP spirit but I don't care for holiday season at all so I'm kinda relieved I don't have to deal with parents and in-laws and celebrations this year. I'm sad for other people around me who do like that time of the year so it's a bit bittersweet but if I'm honest on a totally personal level I'd happily take a December lockdown every year.

No i think its KIP, KIP is a personal journey

Paying twice that, pom, ffs

Ah good I finally found the #ffs channel, been searching

Christ, even your Tesco-bought Founder's Reserve is scarcely cheaper when you take the missing 5cl into account. Then again, Montreal is a mere 4.8k km away from Ballindalloch.

I will KIP by entertaining the possibility of picking up a bottle of Glenlivet 15 in light of this new information.

Its fine, its not a redbreast nor green spot tbh (not rounded enough for my taste)

Facebook "on this day" has been reminding me lately of all the terrible, stressful train journeys home (and, usually worse, back afterwards). None of that this year.

(I enjoy the trains when I'm on them, it's the schedules and delays and the way they close Paddington for works seemingly every Christmas that I don't like)

Yes there were definite benefits to covid xmas to somewhat counterbalance the obvious rotten parts

xp must bump whiskey thread theres been a haul

No visiting over Christmas which meant that once the place was tidied and comfortable meself, the brother and the brat got to hunker in and enjoy cooking, movies, spins together for the few days

covid is an ideal situation for anyone who needs to keep their family out of their lives

Maffew12 has a fistful of dollars shared on plex and there were four types of cheese and three sweet chutneys left to finish

Paperwork, cupboards, obscure cleaning jobs etc have literally never been in better order

Signed the guy who has just shampood his suede shoes and vinegar soda'd the bottom of the curtains

Deeply grateful to have worked from home on 1/6/21, rather than going to my Southwest DC worksite.

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Lockdown sure lets you play with hair/beard combos without unleashing them on the world

aye, ive grown my hair out, am less than fastidious on the shaving front, rather than beard-trimming every other day when im working in the office. thinking of pivoting towards a mullet when i go to my barber next week, bit off the top and sides and leave the back and i'll be in mullet zone

Pics ffs

if i remember. haven't posted to wdyll threads in yonks anyway

including: shaving multiweek-grown beard off in stages to see how one would look with various styles, eg full beard -> porn donut (circle beard) -> zappa -> dr phil or full beard -> lemmy -> horseshoe -> chaplin.

I've been bombarded the past few days with clickbait ads about men who used lockdown to grow "monkey tail" beards. Fellas, keep it positive, but do try to keep your composure.

Yes look the thread isnt a free for all either, agreed

yikes

That is not a clearly kip post, expand or face banishment from this blessed thread imo

https://i.ibb.co/1rJSyf8/Brian-Blessed.jpg

I'm trying my best to KIP right now but I keep getting into verbal aggro with arseholes who don't seem to realise a park I've been frequenting for over a decade doesn't have a dogs must be on leads rule. But the positive aspect to this post is: I was talking to another dogwalker earlier who gave me some encouragement for my hardliner "just tell 'em to fuck off" stance.