What are your Christmas traditions?

We've been on the streets of Liverpool to ask you what are your Christmas traditions that you simply can't do without?

Transcript

00:00 Matching Christmas pyjamas, a breakfast, books, fizz and not forgetting that all-important

00:09 turkey dinner. The most wonderful time of the year is fast approaching and we all have

00:16 our own personal idea of festive heaven and festive hell. Nostalgia is a huge part of

00:22 what makes this time of year feel so magical. The sound of festive tunes playing on the

00:28 radio, the taste of your first mint pie and the sight of fairy lights on the Christmas

00:34 tree. With that in mind, we have been on the streets of Liverpool to ask what are your

00:40 Christmas traditions that you simply can't do without?

00:45 Well, I remember we're sisters and there were six of us and six girls and we'd all go to

00:54 my mum's Christmas day with all our children and my mum would dress up as Santa. She'd

01:02 dress up as Santa. She was on her own wasn't she because my dad passed away years ago before.

01:06 I know and we'd do the usual things every time or she'd come to the door dressed as

01:12 whatever, a reindeer or... My mum always used to tell us a little story, a really sad story

01:21 about the little tin fairy was it and she dies in a fire and it was really bad, it was

01:26 really sad. But she was a matchbox, the little matchbox fairy and she used to tell us that

01:33 Christmas Eve and we'd all sob. So I'm going to carry on the tradition and score my children.

01:41 I do it with my family. Yeah, we do it with ours as well. We do the same. They all come

01:46 to mine and we dress up and they all think I'm crackers. Do you send Christmas cards?

01:53 Do you receive many Christmas cards? No, I don't anymore. I used to but it's just a bit

01:58 waste of paper I think and I don't want them round my house, don't tell anyone. I really

02:01 don't want them. Where do I put them? No. We play games and afterwards family board

02:08 games and we've got that and other things. Just the normal what families do. Only ours

02:14 was a bit mad. We're the quiet ones, aren't we? Yeah. My missus passed away in 2015 and

02:24 me and Rhys, we get ten balloons and we send one up every day up to Christmas Day just

02:31 wishing her a happy Christmas and things like that. Whether it's the food, the presents

02:37 or the decorations that do it for you, we all have our own way of getting into the spirit

02:43 of Yuletide. The Sizzy region is full of sparkle and you shouldn't have to look too hard to

02:51 find it. And let's face it, we could all do with a shimmer of joy in our lives now more

02:58 than ever.

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