Thats everybody away to their beds.
First bit of peace and quiet all day.
This morning it was a bank with no cashiers, then a department store that made up its prices as it went along, and finally i got to see a guy arguing with the man behind the bar in the co-op as to why the post office should be open on christmas Day.
Finally, the worn out shopman told him it was open between ten and two.
I hope the daft bastard turns up with whatever was so important it couldn’t wait until the weekend. In fact, i might grab a couple of cans and go and wait outside the place for him to turn up. Remember, the average man is stupid, so at least half of those you meet will be even dumber than that.
Anyway, I digress.
I meant to throw together the usual nonsense this morning, but I got caught up in the nonsense that surrounds this time of year. and I’m barred from Debenhams, which is where all the people from the Jeremy Kyle show work in the week.
Anyway, its christmas, and as long as Santa makes it over the Ukraine, all the kids should be happy this morning . Hopefully they’ll get what they wanted. In fact, in town today they did a full scale tribute to that football match back in the trenches in 1914. I got into the spirit of things and stabbed one of the Germans when it was finished.
My Dad used to make a great Santa Claus, turned up one night a year, drank all the beer, ate all the food and fucked off again for twelve months.
Mind you, thats me done with both my advent calenders. The UKIP one, where theres a foreigner behind all the doors and you get to close it on them every day until they’re all locked out, and the Katie Price one, where all the flaps are always open.
Oh wait, theres the phone going.
Its the wife, She says she wants me to pick her up from the town, she doesn’t trust the taxi drivers and they take the piss with the prices this time of year.
If I give it a minute she’ll go back to sleep. She hasn’t been out, and has spent the evening with comrade vodka. Which she intends to do for a couple of days, thus restoring the Russian economy back to its former status.
I got a Miranda Hart DVD from her this year, which will save me the bother of opening it. she went nuts though, I told her I loved it, and she called me a fucking liar and stormed off into the kitchen.
I almost got lucky with the present for the youngest-I found one I’d wrapped last year and forgotten about it. Would have got away with it as well if it hadn’t been a puppy.
Anyway, I’m having a refreshment now its quiet, and I’m raising the glass to all of you who have put up with this shite all year, and heres hoping you have a great Christmas, from all of us here at Etims, and you get to spend it with who you want in the way that you want to,
After all, thats what its all about.
And come on the hoops !
Sounds like you enjoying the spirit Ralph. Merry Christmas! Thanks for taking the time to do the page every day and for giving us something to think/discuss/argue about. Cheers!!
Taxi drivers don’t take the piss with prices. Double time is down to the operators and local authorities. As far as most drivers are concerned the price hike is nothing other than an unashamed tip grab by the bosses.
FTQ
She’s asleep now. i might try an unashamed -oh wait, you said tip grab. All the best
Merry Xmas Ralph, enjoy.
All best to all etims, look forward to more informed debate in the new year with ye
Well done Ralph. Thanks for all your hard work this year on our behalf. I enjoy the Diary a lot, so much so that here I am yet it’s Christmas.I may even get a life this year.I chuckle a lot over your antics and laughing is good for the soul. Every laugh adds 12 seconds to your life? Seratonin and aa that. Bring on Ross County! Bring on 2015! Peace and good health to you!
Merry Christmas Ralph. I read the Diary every day and I know the work it must take to get the thing together. I salute you!
To all at ETims,your collective labour of love,all done in the
name of our great club,shows why Celtic supporters are indeed,a breed apart.
The humour,healthy debates and hilarious pictures should
make the Diary a must for all Tims !!
Wishing you all,a great Christmas,and a Champion New Year !!
ps.Later at a family party,I will be singing Hector’s,Ally-A Man Called Dignity.Which is briliant. HAIL HAIL !!
Merry Christmas to the ETims lads and to everyone in Timland. Have a great time over the holidays and here’s to 2015! Good luck and be safe.
Dresden CSC
Yeah merry christmas Ralph & everyone at etims. Really is above & beyond the call of duty to pop one out on Christmas day.
Heres to a happy & succesful 2015 for the bhoys!!
Enjoy the banter, have a good one and say a prayer for those that died in Glasgow tragedy.
Brilliantly funny today mate! Thanks to Ralph and all at etims…i love it. All the best to hoops fans everywhere. May your God, if you have one, go with you! Hail Hail
A very happy Christmas to Ralph and all at E-tims and to Tims everywhere else.
Thanks for the Diary, its funny and informed.
Hope you all have a great new year too.
HAIL HAIL
OFT
Happy Xmas Ralph Thanks for your commitment to bringing us the Celtic news everyday, along with all the laughs. Life would not be the same without your diary.
Happy Christmas to all at etims and hope everyone has a great time .Mon the hoops !!!
Thanks Ralph for bringing a bit of sunshine into my life every day.
Merry Xmas to all fellow tims out there.
And at this time of year, in the spirit of goodwill and concilliation, we really should be feeling just a little bit sorry for the sevco fans, who just seem to be getting hammered at every turn. However, I’m enjoying every last minute of their suffering – death by a thousand cuts. Never really understood Karma until the last 3 years.
Jelly & ice cream for dessert today?
Merry Christmas tae all at etims, we know wan thing is definite, we will be having a lot merrier Christmas than anything sevco…HAIL HAIL+
Happy Christmas from The Basque Country to one and all…..brilliant craic as usual Ralph,thank you and slainte……Hail Hail.
Merry Christmas Ralph.
Thanks. Gave me a fair old chuckle.
I thoroughly enjoy reading the diary. Keep up the good work
Merry Christmas to you & yours, Ralph, and all the best for 2015. And just to echo what everyone else has already said, thank you for the always entertaining Diary. Keep up the work
Rumour has it that Santa has sent a bill to Sevco for using one of his sacks to hold their AGM in.
Merry Christmas.
Ralph thank you and all at etims for all your good work throughout the year. Hope you all have a good Xmas and a fantastic 2015.
Comon the hoops, god bless all in timdom
Merry Christmas to you all here’s hoping for a very prosperous New Year and a few late Presents in the January Sales from Peter and the Board 😉
Ronny possibly looking at altering things so proving that he’s flexible with the approach which cannot be a bad thing.
Here’s hoping whatever happens we do it with a bit more class in the second half of the Season.
I would like to see another CB in a LB to push Izzy for a start and a quality DM with a bit of pace.
I read also we might have an Interest in Darren Randolph?
Zaluska must be for the exit if this is the case and I think Randolph would be great backup.
HH
Hail Hail! X
Merry Christmas everyone, the only thing that could make Christmas better is if we played with two strikers!
Merry Christmas to one and all. Hail hail
Merry Christmas Ralph – not sure u fully appreciate just how many of us wait eagerly each day for the diary to appear. It genuinely is now as much a part of my day as shaving or having the breakfast. Christmas is as good a time as any to say thanks so eh…. Thanks! I’m sure the pay’s not great (!) which makes it even more impressive that it gets churned out each day
Happy Christmas to you all and Hail Hail!!
Hi all hope you have enjoyed the festive faire.
For the first time in many a year me and mine attended midnight mass, it was at a High Anglican church that dates back to 1086 and is actually mentioned in the doomsday book. The choir was very nice but all the ceremony was conducted by women! a wee bit strange in my opinion but I suppose termed as forward thinking.
I cannot help but think that organised religion has completely lost the plot when it comes to faith and religious freedom, Catholics, Protestants, Baptists and Methodists and even Jehovah’s witnesses!
All of them insist that their organisation takes precedence over scripture and their adherence to church philosophy, all of this takes priority over scriptural truth.
Xmas has no place what so ever in Christian reality and is deeply steeped in paganism.
Even in the High Church it mentions the Nicene Creed and the Apostolic catholic faith, this was the introduction of the man made theory of the trinity which has no basis what so ever in scriptural truth and yet all Christendom is based on this false precept, although Jehovah’s witnesses do not adhere to this false teaching, and before any of you mention blind faith you would do well to remember the definition of faith at Hebrews 11.1.
Anyway it was a pleasant experience but one completely steeped in paganism and nothing to do with the word of truth.
God bless and good fortune to all.
HH
Interesting, so what’s your views on 4 4 2 , or maybe Charlie Saiz and my own preference of 3 5 2 or Ronny’s 4 2 3 1 ???
Lol the Book of Ambrose states:
He who hath precided over formations and such teachings is wasteth his breath for I Efe 4 the 4th son of Cluster shall rightly fuck it up. Amen
From the Late Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name Αμβροσιος (Ambrosios) meaning “immortal”. Saint Ambrose was a 4th-century theologian, footballer and bishop of Milan, who is considered a Doctor of the Church.
But it was his inability to kick a ball straight and his alarming ability to fuck up the simplest of tasks that had the 4th-century Milanese reaching for the valium.
I pushed the boat out andybhoy rowed it all the way to Largs…;-)
Interesting read Tourtenay and an Interesting take on the Paganistic Festival of Christmas.
I don’t do Churches any more myself in fact I no longer adhere or partake in any Organised Religious gatherings myself.
Not be because I don’t believe in God or Christ our Saviour you see but rather these Books they all read from were written by men in the Interests of men.
I get the message and I appreciate the work that has gone into them but ultimately these are not “gods words”.
I celebrate Christmas because I believe it is right we acknowledge for at least one day of the Year that Jesus gave his life for us.
The fact they chose a Pagan date to celebrate the Birth of Christ is of no real consequence in the big scheme of things I don’t think.
So long as we enjoy it when we do I think is the real spirit of Christmas.
God Bless.
I am afraid they are Gods words 2nd Timothy 16.
HH
2nd Tim 3:16
12 solid months of entertainment an information. Keep up the good work.
Cheers Ralph
Loving my daily fix of the diary
Merry Christmas to all us Tims!!
Happy Christmas etims. I’d be lost without your posts, everyday on the tube I Zone out and read the posts. Love it. Merry Christmas from London. Hail hail guys. Love the celts, I’m watching you delia, don’t feck it up.
Well done on the constant magnificence of the Etims diary.
It is very much appreciated. It must be tough having to produce a constant output, particularly when things are shite, so big credit and thanks for making the effort.
Mind you, it’s not as funny as crazy bill mcmurdos blog. He still thinks it reasonable to call rangers ‘the queens 11’.
Merry Christmas gents. Frank McGarveys still a Tim.
MERRY XMAS BHOYS!
Bit late but hope all you tims wherever and whoever you are had a great Christmas, and thanks Ralph for your work and dedication with the diary and the whole etims collective for all the brilliant work youse do in adding to the best thing in the world – being a Celtic supporter.
Hail hail bhoys n ghirls!
BB