I don't know where we're going, but we know where we are? (Part whatever)

Yep, three sizes too small 🤣

so what did you get?

Maybe, I should have washed them :):):)

My Christmas smell is almond icing and rich cakes.

My mother was great at volunteering my icing skills to all the neighbours so I was always busy before Christmas when I should have been enjoying school holidays. Became expert at American icing as it was a very quick fix and probably accounted for lots of visits to the dentist in the new year.

For me, it would be two distinct smells, the first one being, oddly enough, the smell generated by train brakes.

For most of my living memory, Christmas has meant train rides of some description, whether it‘s an eight to ten hour odyssey from Austria, or just the quick 45 minute hop on an ICE3 from Frankfurt Airport to Mannheim. Especially the trains in the former case would have a very distinct smell, caused probably by the very curvy tracks in the alps, and that has always stayed with me as being associated with Christmas. You could also add jet fuel to that, since of course once I moved to Ireland, going home for Christmas meant being shot through the stratosphere in an aluminum tube, sometimes more than once.

The second is the smell of ontbijtkoek, that gingerbread-like Dutch breakfast loaf. Since it is an essential ingredient to my family‘s traditional Christmas meal, and due to the fact that most German supermarkets would only stock it during the run-up to Christmas, it has become seared in my memory as THE scent of Christmas.

@smurfjed From what I heard from my colleagues, it‘s an Oculus Quest 2, a VR headset. I haven‘t actually gotten it yet, the package only left Paris this morning and I‘ll be lucky if I get it before Christmas…

FFS......I went up to get the booster vaccination last Saturday morning but got told I needed 6 months between contracting covid and the booster ..got told I had to call back in 5 days because then it would be 6 months ...the dickhead...

Now I hear on the news that its 3 months gggrrrrrr

We used cook only one ham and always on Xmas eve. I would sneak a few skelps of the fat off with my fingers. It was coated in brown sugar and glaze and cloves and still warm.

It would look like a little mouse burrowed a few holes in it after my little hands had their way.

So yea, the smell of roasted ham is the Christmas scent.

You didn't make the final wedding cut so, @Autosport 😆

@grem, crop a little off the bottom of the photo and it will magically post in portrait.