Families across the city are gearing up for the big day, finishing their Christmas shopping and making sure they have their turkey's ordered from Paul's Butchers.
From festive nights out to the Winterland Market, there is plenty to keep everyone busy this festive season in the run up to Christmas Day.
However, what about on Christmas Day? There are Christmas day traditions we've all grown up with and many we still do now.
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From essential items on your Christmas dinner to visiting family, here are some of the things that are guaranteed to happen in Derry on Christmas Day.
- Being gifted a pair of 'Christmas pyjamas' on Christmas Eve
Needing a Full English to soak up the booze from your Christmas Eve pints in Peadar's
Your mum following people around with a bin bag for wrapping paper
Your dad sitting back and pretending he knows what your mum has wrapped
Your mum spending the evening watching the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special
Your dad falling asleep on the sofa watching the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special
Every child in Carnhill and Galliagh doing wheelies on their new bikes
Your mum making brussels sprouts just for everyone to refuse to have any
Realising you forgot to buy batteries for all the kids’ toys and Home Bargains isn't open
It will probably rain, even though Barra Best said we’d get a white Christmas
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