On hearing the first 'White Christmas' of 1999

Subject: On hearing the first 'White Christmas' of 1999
From: Penny S.
Date: 14 May 99 - 06:40 PM

I did, today, in our wonderful new shopping mall, there it was filling up the corner decorated with star maps under a deep blue dome with glittery points in. Usually they play things like Cleo Laine singing Shakespeare in that spot, but today, on the 14th May, it was white Christmas.

Subject: RE: On hearing the first 'White Christmas'
From: Bert
Date: 14 May 99 - 11:17 PM

Does that mean it beat the cuckoo this year?

Subject: RE: On hearing the first 'White Christmas'
From: Penny S.
Date: 15 May 99 - 03:55 AM

Not quite. I think I may have heard one of those earlier. But it has beaten the glow-worms. And I've not seen the swallows or martins yet - they're very late. Maybe the mall got the nest-sites.

Subject: RE: On hearing the first 'White Christmas'
From: Alice
Date: 15 May 99 - 10:47 AM

Penny, it is still snowing here. Green leaves and grass and tulips are under the snow.

alice in montana

Subject: RE: On hearing the first 'White Christmas'
From: Penny S.
Date: 15 May 99 - 07:24 PM

Alice

It sometimes snows here in May, but it never settles, courtesy of the Gulf Stream. So....

I'm dreaming of a white Maytime, White hawthorn blossoms in the snow, When the sky in daytime is bright, And the frost gets all your plants at night.

But it was Christmas the man was singing...

Subject: RE: On hearing the first 'White Christmas'
From: Alice
Date: 15 May 99 - 10:23 PM

Penny
I'm dreaming of a white springtime, just like the ones I've always known,
Where the tulips glisten, and children listen, to hear school bells let them go...

alice