Christmas 2021 on the O2 Community 🔔🎉🎅🎁🎄

[lewys-gp]

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing well, and you're excited for Christmas 🔔🎉🎅🎁🎄.

After the success of HALLOWEEK 2021, thanks to the planning and contribution from community members, I thought it'd be good to post this announcement thread as early as possible.

Very simply, I'll publish a table below full of dates and we can plan what fun, games and activities we want to do for Christmas 2021.

Wednesday 1st December	@Bambino's Christmas Jokes (ongoing through Dec - find the latest on their profile) The Elf on the Shelf Thread (ongoing through Dec)
Thursday 2nd December	@RunrigForever's Christmas in the 1950s
Friday 3rd December	@lewys-gp's Christmas 20 Questions
Monday 6th December	@Martin-O2's Movie Night Vote
Tuesday 7th December	@RunrigForever's  A Small Family & Friends Festive Season 2021
Wednesday 8th December	@TallTrees' Christmas Flowers Quiz
Thursday 9th December	@RafaC's Emoji Game
Friday 10th December	@Pennywren's Christmas Poem @Martin-O2's Movie Night - Krampus
Monday 13th December
Tuesday 14th December	@J9el's Finish the Lyric Game
Wednesday 15th December	@TallTrees' Christmas Cake
Thursday 16th December	@pgn's Word Grid PART 1
Friday 17th December	@Mi-Amigo's Best Christmas Song/Carol
Monday 20th December	@Mi-Amigo's White Room Quiz Christmas Edition
Tuesday 21st December	@Mi-Amigo's Word Hunt Diamond Christmas Edition
Wednesday 22nd December	@TallTrees' Christmas Keep Fit @RafaC & @lewys-gp's Word Scramble
Thursday 23rd December	@Cleoriff's Christmas One Sentence Story
Friday 24th December	@pgn's Word Grid PART 2
Wednesday 29th December	@Mi-Amigo's White Room Quiz End of the Year

Want to do something and need inspiration? Here are some ideas that we could include (let us know if you like/want to host them) ☃️:

• Christmas Movie Night
• Christmas Word Scramble
• Christmas 20 Questions
• Christmas Emoji Game
• Christmas Trivia (TV, Movie, Music, General)
• Christmas: Finish the Lyric
• Two Truths, One Lie
• Funniest Christmas Stories
• Christmas Tree Show-Offs
• Elf on the Shelf Thread (Comment photos of your naughty elves every day)
• Christmas Jumper Contest
• Pictionary
• Family Feud
• Price is Right
• Joke of the Day Advent Calendar
• Word Search

I hope you like everything planned and the ideas above 😁. I'm going to leave a comment with a few explanations on how we could do some of them too.

We're really keen to make this the best Christmas yet in the community, so, please join in and get involved. Leave a comment with your thoughts or send a message to @RafaC or me. 

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal(s)!

[lewys-gp]

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal(s)!

[lewys-gp]

I have added my 20 Questions game for the first Friday of the month. And @RafaC will be hosting an Emoji Game on Tuesday 7th 😁.

I'm still waiting to hear back from a few members, but we should have a pretty full calendar once I do!

[lewys-gp]

@Bambino has started us off with their Christmas Jokes topic! It's been pinned to the top of the Off-Topic board and linked in this topic's calendar. 

Just check back every day and there'll be a new joke to enjoy 😁. Cheers, Bambino!

[RunrigForever]

I have received my 1st Christmas card ..... it is from a lovely lady who runs the cat rescue place my cat Marty 'found me' 11 years ago ..... she always remembers me and Marty ... & ... despite her failing health continues to care for senior cats ... xx ...

[lewys-gp]

Thank you for sharing, @RunrigForever. Lovely to start receiving Christmas cards already.

Also, thank you for posting your Christmas in the 1950s story today. I'm also looking forward to your other story on the 7th 😊.

[lewys-gp]

Also, to confirm two activities:

• @pgn's Word Grid will be on the 16th December
• @J9el will be hosting a Finish the Lyric game on the 14th December

Thank you, both! Looking forward to joining in.

[Cleoriff]

Looking forward to them both @pgn and @J9el  x

Thanks for letting us know @lewys-gp 😉

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks for the update @lewys-gp 

Looking forward to @J9el `s Finish the Lyric game and @pgn `s Word Grid.

[pgn]

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@viridis wrote:

Busy writing... And it ain't letters to old red fat boy!

(Looks far better on YouTube in 4k HDR)

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Absolutely stunning detail at 2160p HDR on my Pixel4A on YouTube app @viridis - love it!

Screenshot does it little justice, but WOW!

(Excuse the floaty Google Voice thing on the left - it persists despite my attempts to persuade it to hide..  🙄)

[RunrigForever]

Christmas isn't so fine for everyone is it ? Received my 2nd Christmas card from someone I havn't seen since before lockdown ..... she has moved since letting me know her address last Christmas card ... didn't know she had muscular / vascular dementia ... her dementia nurse is trying desperately to get her back into my town before she forgets her way around ... we used to meet up in an ice cream parlour for a cuppa / milk shake . cheese & onion toastie / and the real ice cream thing, of course ..... will be sending her a private message on Facebook soonest ..... she has an assistant / therapy dog ... hope to meet her ASAP xx

[lewys-gp]

Updates:

• I will be hosting 20 Questions at 11 am 👀
• I'll also be posting an Elf on the Shelf thread this afternoon
• @Pipstop78 will be hosting a Word Scramble on Monday 13th December 😁

Thank you, Pipstop78. And to everyone else taking part this Christmas!