What will be left out for Santa this year?

[Mick Mac]

What's the trend? Less is more due to credit crunch? or generosity in adversity?

My kids have expressed an interest in giving santa some brandy - and guess what we are planning to have some good stuff in for Christmas - and also, some rich dark chocolate to sit with it and maybe some good coffee.

My kids don't ever know if they have done enough. - what else could they do for Santa?

Obviously I'm independent. Suggest whatever you want, I'll just pay for the white bearded tosser to get drunk.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Don't forget the organic carrots for the reindeer.

[????]

We put out beer....it tends to be Stella

[zephyr]

Tends to be a drop of Lagavulin single malt. He always seems to finish it!

[Brendan]

Father Christmas!

Please we aren't fucking Americans.

[Mick Mac]

He is Santa in Ireland Brendan....you can call him whatever you want.

[Brendan]

Ireland shmireland.

Father Christmas.

[Brendan]

Is he Santa in all of Ireland? I?ve spent many a Christmas with my Irish aunts and uncles and I?m pretty sure they say Father Christmas.

Or maybe they?re just being anglicised.

[Keef]

I'm with Brendan, it should be Father Christmas.

Anyway, my daughter is too young for all this, but when she's a bit older, I shall advise her that Father Christmas will appreciate a nice big Jack Daniels, and possibly a joint.

[Brendan]

Father Christmas is actually the older name when over the winter solstice the Germanic god Woden (Odin to the Norse) would be represented by a fat bearded guy riding an eight legged horse who brought presents to children. People refered to him as winter fater or something like that.

Santa Claus is the Christianised name adopted from the Turkish Saint Nicolas.

[Mick Mac]

Keef Wrote:

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> I'm with Brendan, it should be Father Christmas.

>

Its whatever he was called when you were a child. For my children its father christmas, but for me it was Santa.

[Brendan]

Madness and lunacy I tell you! ;-)

[reenie40]

Where I'm from in Ireland(South East) it's Santa Clause, but usually shortened to 'Santy'. My kids tend to look blankly at their Irish cousins when asked what they're getting from Santy. Whether we leave a nice glass of whiskey or some milk and biscuits tends to be dictated by how many work drinks we think Santy has been to in the run up to Christmas...

[iaineasy]

I will be leaving out an I.E.D for Santa. bah humbug.

oops thats should be ahh bumhug.

[wee quinnie]

He's certainly Santa in the north of Ireland.

[Chick]

All the grit the council didn't bother putting on the snow & ice.

[Jah Lush]

Bah! He ain't getting nothing from me. I asked him for a Scalectrix in 1964 and I'm still waiting. *Taps foot*

[woofmarkthedog]

My son Samuel ( 5 ) & myself had this conversation.

" Dad ,Santa lands on the roof with his reindeer & delivers the presents down the chimney ?"

" Yes, he does "

"Santa eats a bit of the mince pie, doesn't he ?"

" Yes, he does "

"And his reindeer eats some carrot ? "

I nod.

"But his reindeer doesn't come down the chimney "

"No he doesn't, no"

I shake my head...

"So how does he eat his carrot & leave some down here?"

I shrug my shoulders.

"That's a bit weird isn't it ?"

I do the blank face here.

"Well, I think Santa takes it up onto the roof for him" I say.

" .....then brings back the end bit after, that's stupid " Is his reply.

"Errrm..... !"

W**F

[Narnia]

That is stupid.....how did the remains of the carrot get there?

[Pickle]

This is the first year in our household that there's stuff being left out for Santa as our eldest is almost starting to understand (nearly 3). So Santa will be mainly dining on Quality Street chocolates and washing it down with lager. And there's a carrot for the reindeer. What's the accepted carrot etiquette? Snap a bit off, or bite it?

[????]

Bite. And if you get Woof's problem, just say Rudolph likes to spit them back down the chimney as he likes a tidy roof.

[Narnia]

From what I've read they actually prefer apples, skin and all!