Merry Christmas Everyone!

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 09:32 PM

Merry Christmas to you all -

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: Genie
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 10:04 PM

Very lovely "sermon," Suffet, and I echo your sentiment of wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season and new year.

Here's my musical Christmas card.   (The pic is pretty lousy and the audio quality could be much better but you can "feel" the song and hear the lyrics - which is the point.)   Merry Christmas today from sunny-but-not-hot San Diego (where the natives wouldn't mind a little more rain at all!).

Genie

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: Alice
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 11:15 PM

Thanks for the music links!

Merry Christmas, everyone!



Alice

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 01:49 AM

Suffet, that was beautifully -- and well -- said. Thank you.

Laurel, there's a raven on top of my Christmas tree this very moment (a very realistic life-sized raven hand puppet, to be precise) and dangling from his beak is a sun ornament. It's quite grand, and pretty imposing, too!

To everyone, may peace come down like a soft winter snowfall to surround you in drifts of calm and contentment, until the earth blossoms again. Merry Christmas.

ClaireBear

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: GUEST,Falco
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 06:30 AM

Ever thought about where the title "Boxing day" comes from ?
I looked it up and found this.

"The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon tradition of giving seasonal gifts in the form of a "Christmas box" to less wealthy people and slaves. In the United Kingdom this was later extended to various workpeople such as labourers, servants, tradespeople and postal workers.

Boxing Day is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, St. Stephen's Day, the day after Christmas Day. Unlike St. Stephen's Day, Boxing Day is a secular holiday and is not always on 26 December: the public holiday is generally moved to the following Monday if 26 December is a Saturday. If 25 December is a Saturday then both the Monday and Tuesday may be public holidays. However the date of observance of Boxing Day varies between countries".

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: mg
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 03:28 PM

Boxing day almost got me killed in Newfoundland. I had never heard of it, thought day after Christmas..great day to go shopping..went shopping..no stores no nothing open, and a huge storm blew in..one of the killer types. No buses, no taxis, no places open. Somehow I made it home several miles...scary. But happy boxing day everyone. mg

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 04:00 PM

Genie... kewl lass! Thanks!

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: Genie
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 01:08 AM

Gnu, not sure what you're thanking me for, but you're welcome, and thanks for the "kewl!"

Oh, and BTW, everyone, today (at least here in California it's still Dec. 26) is also St. Stephen's Day.
(Let's hope everyone had a much, much better day than he did!).

Genie

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: Genie
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 01:10 AM

OK, Gnu, I guess you meant the song (since I hadn't posted anything else since then). Glad you liked it.   
Hope your holidays were/are warm and wonderful too.

G

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: Bugsy
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 09:40 AM

Well, the celebrations are all over now. We had 29 adults and 5 kids for boxing day lunch. 140 roast potatoes, 4 kilos brussels, 35 pieces roast pumpkin, 35 roast onions 2kilos carrots, 2kilos corn, 2 kilos peas, 7 kilos turkey,m 3 kilos pork, 3 kilos ham.

The festivities started a 2p and finished 02.30am. Then started again at 7am and finally finished at 12.30pm. Then we had to go to our niece's birthday party at 7.30pm.

Guess what? we're buggered!!!

Now it's the rev up to NEW YEARS EVE!!

And we thought that retirement would be RESTFUL!

Still who'd have it any other way??

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Cheers

Bugsy & Mrs Bugsy

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas Everyone!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 06:04 PM

A Charisma Scare Roll

Go dressed team marriage end dull meant
Lit north ink cutest May
Forge eases cry star say fiord
West boor non crisp mistake,
Two safe assault from say tons spar
Win whee wore gonifs tray;
Owe, tide ink's off come fort enjoy, come fort enjoy,
Owe tye eye dink's off come fort enjoy.


An Udder Charisma Scare Roll

Oak gum ball if facefull, choy fall ant dry infant;
Gum ball ease it is sins off heavy nabob.
Gum band a door imp, barn off kinky faint shells.
Oak omelet acid Durham, oak omelet acid Durham,
Oak gum lettuce at Durhammm, cry, I still hoard.


And a harp pine gnu weir two ewe wall.

Robin

Subject: AND NOW, A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
From: Bugsy
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 11:59 PM

I thought that rather than waste a new thread we could just rename this one and carry on!

Cheers

Bugsy