Less than one hour to go, shops are very definitely closed. What have you forgotten?

Happy Christmas mate. Hope you have a chill day. I knew he'd get precious and (rhubarb) crumble over his lolly's (I keep eating them all on him) so thought it'd be funny to wind him up, friendly banter. Gonna make black forest crumble, just need some proper butter and biscuits from the BossLady. Yeah it used to be crazy easy to get your own flat, I was 2 weeks from turning 18 when I got mine. My cousin got a 2 bed semi as she had a kid and another on the way. Now so few local young people can afford the rent and flats go really quickly. Many of my family and friends with kids aged 20+ still have them living at home My youngest sons flat in Hulme is £1500 a month. Rent in alot of flats in the rougher and poorer areas of Manchester jumped from £800/£900 to £1200+ in just a year. Also so many councils created Housing Trusts to manage council housing and then sold them off either to other trusts or private. For eg Trafford Housing Trust is now owned by L&Q Manchester has/is being gentrified in alot of areas, Old Trafford, Hulme, Moss Side are unrecognisable to what they were even just 20 years ago. Someone coming back after 40 years would be shocked. Im shocked sometimes myself. Then again it's not the first time gentrification happened in that area. The old slum terraced housing was cleared to build Hulme Crescents aka the bullring a housing experiment that was very nice middle class its early days.. I do love the Lowry, Salford Quayside has definitely improved and has so many decent places to eat. Plus the outlet mall and there are markets certain weekends - sometimes craft stuff or other times food. You also have the war museum just a walk over the bridge and Man U is an interesting tour if you're into Footy.