BS: It's Christmas Day

Subject: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 08:16 AM

silly me, I'm 15 minutes late wishing everyone Merry Christmas!

sandra (12.15am in Sydney)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 08:32 AM

I may well respond in 10 1/2 hours time

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 08:40 AM

Just saw this at the top of the BS :

BS: It's Christmas Day 2 24 Dec 13 - 08:32 AM Trace
BS: Bah - Humbug

Merry Ho Ho!!! Sandra.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 08:48 AM

It's only Christmas in places where people fall off the world. Velcro was invented to keep them on.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 08:54 AM

you too, Sandra. we got over 10 hrs before the day here in the wet UK.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 09:23 AM

It was 19C here with 81% humidity at 1am & we're expecting 24C with a little rain developing.

Last Christmas day was rainy so the picnic became a proper meal in my friend's living room - we didn't even plan a picnic this year as we'd seen the forecast!

sandra - heading to bed

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Amos
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 09:37 AM

IT is 6:30 in the morning here on the West COast of the United STates, on the day BEFORE Christmas (December 24). I don't understand how you guys have slipped the surly bonds of time itself like this. It's just not right.

But have a qwonderful Christmas. May all your hearts overflow.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 10:02 AM

I'm at work. Not quite Christmas yet here but since the stores have been shilling red and green crap since early October I guess it must be the season. Merry Christmas all. Peace on earth in my lifetime.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 11:03 AM

It's 4pm on Christmas Eve here in the UK. Wet and windy outside but warm indoors where I'm watching Olympus Has Fallen with my grandson.

Happy Christmas all.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 11:16 AM

Ruddy hell! I haven't crossed the trumping crackers yet! (Good crop of purple Brussel sprouts this year in our garden. Been nurturing them ready for Chrimbo day.)

Subject: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: mally
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 02:07 PM

Wishing you all A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS from Mally-Have a good un

Subject: RE: MERRY CHRISTMAS
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 02:27 PM

Yup, ditto. 8:26am here in NZ. Just taking a break from the frenetic activity.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 03:15 PM

A lovely, Happy Christmas to everyone from deepest Norfolk UK. Have just made a rather large batch of mince pies. Diet in 2014? Big hugs to all. 'God bless us, every one'.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 03:44 PM

It's almost 1 PM here in sunny California. Time for my nap. We in the choir have to be in church at 10:15 PM for Midnight Mass, which will last until 1:30 AM. Then we're supposed to start singing again at 7:30 AM for 8 AM Mass. Choir directors are monsters this time of year.

Merry Christmas to everyone, even to you who are choir directors.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: JennieG
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 04:13 PM

It's 8.07am on Christmas Day here in the beautiful (but very dry) north west of New South Wales, so the forecast rain will be the best Christmas present we could have! Himself and I are having a quiet morning then heading out to a restaurant for A Nice Christmas Lunch, instead of just sitting round grinning at each other. Our Canberra son and his fiancée will be visiting for a few days on Friday, and we hope - ice storms and power outages permitting - to have a skype chat to our Canada son and girl-in-law.

Happy Thingmas and Seasonal Whatevers to all, whatever you celebrate!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 06:44 PM

Almost midnight and the house is quiet. Grandson was sent to bed earlyish in order that his iMac could be set up in his study, ready for the morning. He is under orders to stay in his room until 7.30, at which time he can come to me and we'll make tea and take it up to his parents for stocking opening.

I love the family Christmas traditions. Even now he's thirteen he becomes a little boy again at this time of year.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 07:00 PM

And a VERY Happy Christmas from West London!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: MMario
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 07:02 PM

Still a bit under 5 hours to go here....though since I've just finished Christmas x 12 in 1842 I'm ready!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 07:03 PM

On the dot in Edinburgh too, but we have also been communing with Sydney via FaceTime. Happy Christmas wherever you may be, whenever it came/will come!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 07:09 PM

It ALWAYS rains in Juneau, Alaska, on Christmas Day. Got an early start this year- cats and dogs are flipping and floundering and flying through the air already.

But a Merry Christmas to ye for a' that.

Subject: Merry Christmas 2013
From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 07:16 PM

The clock has turned here.
Merry Christmas to all as and when it reaches you.
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas 2013
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 07:29 PM

And you.

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas 2013
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 07:35 PM

You are a little slow (as usual)

NORAD....has had Santa properly escorted and tracked for about 15 hours.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

coal in your stocking

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas 2013
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 07:54 PM

You taking lessons from Bill D, Rap? Very impressive!

And a merry Christmas to y'all.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Merry Christmas 2013
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 08:36 PM

No, Joe. I just hate to put others in the shade with my HTML skills, so I usually just hide my light under a bushel. (If you hid a candle under a bushel, wouldn't it set the bushel on fire?)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: artbrooks
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 09:07 PM

Still several hours to go here, but since my Secret Santa is in England and herself's is in Oz, happy day to all of yins. And everyone else, too. Unless you are the proprietor of an establishment that is open on Christmas day, in which case may the fleas of a thousand camels fly up your nose.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Janie
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 12:46 AM

Christmas here on the northeast Piedmont of NC now. Chilly, clear night and the moon has just risen over the horizon, shining brightly as it moves up behind the trunks and bare branches of the trees in the small woods across the way. Santa has just finished filling the stockings here, and took off again, headed west.

Happy Christmas to all.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: GUEST,Lester
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 03:53 AM

Merry Christmas

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 04:05 AM

Just finishing my first cup of tea. Dog's been walked (that Judi is a hero. What you thought I'D done it?!!). Be making some toast in a minute and looking forward to 11am. In this house that's glass of champers and present-opening time.

Merry Christmas!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: gnu
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 06:38 AM

Got my first Kissmeass pressie! It's snowing. Again. %^^&*%^$@&!!!!!

HO Ho ho...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: eddie1
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 07:08 AM

Merry Christmas to all my Mudcat Friends

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Will Fly
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 09:33 AM

It's 2.30pm here in Sussex. We've just had the main course of Christmas dinner (a very nice chicken with all the trimmings) and a really good 2009 white Burgundy. Christmas pud is on its way and I'm typing this with "Singin' In The Rain" on the TV. Again...

Madame F. LOVED her pressies, I got a great wallet. Mum-in-law is flabbergasted by her new iPad and what it can do. We've had torrential rain, thunder, sunshine and everything in between.

All is quiet - until the grandkids descend on us tomorrow...

Love to all,

Will

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: bobad
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 10:45 AM

"'Merry Christmas!' the man threatened." —William Gaddis

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 10:55 AM

And a very merry day to you all, no matter where no matter who!! I'm sizzling in bed in Singapore after a long hot day and hoping I can get myself together in the morning for 3 days in Cambodia. Wat!!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: gnu
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 04:09 PM

Finally! It's over! I am home! Thank goodness.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 11:20 PM

There's still a little bit of Christmas Night left here in Rhode Island. I hope all of you have had or are still having a very merry Christmas!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Christmas Day
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Dec 13 - 04:25 AM

I gave one of my grandmothers a couple of chapbooks...one published last year...and one that will be officially published next month, an unpublished poem about her late husband....and I printed out Home For the Holiday for her...she has never read it....and some how didn't know that I write poetry and prose...she was quite impressed.

She had me read one...and I read about a childhood memory about finding the right Christmas tree in the hills of North Idaho....

Then, she read a poem from one of the chapbooks....and I kept saying no you don't want to read that one...not aloud to the group...it was very erotic. My face was burning through out her reading it....Good thing it wasn't one of my more explicit ones...that would have been unbearable.

Then, at the end of that chapbook is a poem I wrote almost 11 years ago...and on the tenth anniversary of her first Christmas with out my paternal grandfather, she read a poem about his death....her voice breaking as she realised what it was about. She loved it though.