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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 20 Dec 18 - 10:50 AM Gah, that should say 'dong' doing. Cat walked on keyboard, blooming thing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 20 Dec 18 - 10:49 AM Big Al, what on earth is your doing 'merrily on high'? Are you hanging it out of a top-storey window? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Tattie Bogle Date: 20 Dec 18 - 09:33 AM Yay! And Hooray! A stagecoach card arrived today! The only one in about 100 cards already received! And on the back it says "Made in China" - I kid you not! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Big Al Whittle Date: 19 Dec 18 - 07:29 PM Well, all I can say is , you've got a better computer than me. I put it in google as suggested. One anaemic washed out little monochrome image. I want teams of brown horses, merry coachmen in red cloaks, pretty ladies in blue, snow, golden street lamps, coaching signs, rubicund carol singers, clear winter skies with bright twinkly stars... I'm fed up with shit modern designs. They don't dig my dong merrily on high. Its probably cos I'm a purist. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Dec 18 - 12:00 PM Wow. I've seen a few over the years, but that's quite a collection in one place. Lifted to send to my Facebook friends! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Jack Campin Date: 19 Dec 18 - 07:14 AM How about these? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Dec 18 - 01:14 PM Same here. I don't remember what people sent me so conversely I figure they don't remember what I sent them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Jos Date: 18 Dec 18 - 12:51 PM I have lots of packets of cards from previous years with two or three cards left but I can't remember which designs I sent to which relatives and friends and I don't want to send people the same card I sent them last year, so I'll just have to keep them for a few years until I am sure they will have forgotten. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 18 Dec 18 - 12:14 PM Oh Stilly, I'm always doing that! I'm a veritable squirrel. In the January sales they have piles of Crimbo cards in boxes at less than half price, and wrapping paper (sans glitter), rosettes, ribbon and so on. I usually stock up for the following year. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Dec 18 - 12:07 PM I have several boxes of leftover cards from previous years and I can't find them. I was apparently efficient about finding a place to store them. It's secret even from me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Big Al Whittle Date: 18 Dec 18 - 11:58 AM its never occurred to me not to buy christmas cards from shops. too late for this year. next year - they all get stagecoaches if this info proves correct. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: leeneia Date: 17 Dec 18 - 04:50 PM To get back to the OP, I don't know what mysterious or cosmic process has been going on, but I googled "Christmas card with stagecoach" and several cards came up. And they're not from bygone days, you can buy all you want right now. Somebody tell Al Whittle. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Dec 18 - 11:55 AM I'm sure stagecoaches had some major roll-over issues, to say nothing of the dust inhaled by passengers and drivers. Maybe that's why Santa has avoided them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: leeneia Date: 17 Dec 18 - 11:26 AM When I was in college in 1967, a fellow student who worked in an emergency room during vacations told me the Beetle was unsafe. He said that when a victim came in with a crushed chest, they knew that the steering wheel had been rammed into him "because there's nothing up front." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Dec 18 - 09:16 PM That's what happened with the old VW Bugs here in the states. They're actually death traps, now that we know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: BobL Date: 16 Dec 18 - 03:40 AM That's right. One of the most practical cars I ever owned. Unfortunately the structural design was no way compatible with modern safety requirements. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Dec 18 - 01:53 AM Had to Google 2CV - a car? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Big Al Whittle Date: 15 Dec 18 - 07:21 PM That's the French influence. If they thought they could get away with putting a 2CV on a Christmas card, they'd have done it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Dec 18 - 04:23 PM Shifting back to stagecoaches - it's funny - I guess I was thinking about this thread when I opened an article about one of the Mars Rovers - and at first thought I was looking at a wild west scene. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 15 Dec 18 - 07:55 AM I couldn't agree more Jos. They apparently make the contestants crawl through tunnels/pits absolutely filled with snakes and cockroaches. I think this is terribly cruel and shows a complete lack of compassion for innocent creatures. The snakes are poured on in large quantities and must suffer. Many of them probably die. I've read complaints about this on other online sites, and I think it should be stopped. Even spiders have a right to be left unmolested and no creatures should be used like this for so-called 'entertainment'. People avidly watching these capers must be completely pea-brained. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Jos Date: 15 Dec 18 - 07:39 AM I don't watch I'm a celebrity, but that sounds like cruelty to innocent spiders. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 15 Dec 18 - 03:56 AM AAAAAAGGGHHHH! Forgot about those Bob! No! No! No! (Puts swimsuit back in drawer and tears up flight tickets) On 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here' a chap had to eat a huge water spider. I don't normally watch drivel like that but I was flicking through the channels. Husband nearly fell off the sofa laughing as I squeaked in horror and ran out of the sitting room. Sigh. I suppose I'll just have to brave out these dark chilly wintry days and look to the Spring. Sorry Australia! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: BobL Date: 15 Dec 18 - 02:22 AM Poisonous spiders, Eliza? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 14 Dec 18 - 03:40 AM Right! I'm getting a flight to Australia immediately. And I'm going to live there with my husband and cats and never go back to UK!! It sounds perfect Jennie! (Wonder where I put my swimsuit?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: JennieG Date: 14 Dec 18 - 12:08 AM Well, McGrath.....our winters aren't as long or as hard as northern winters. They are short and sharp; not many weeks, and they're over. We eat yummy winter foods (soups, stews, roasts etc), wear warm clothes, enjoy the winter sunshine. Some folk who can afford it like to indulge in winter sports - what is possibly the first winter sport carnival was held in Kiandra (southern N.S.W. alps) in 1908. Then, before we know it, it's spring again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 13 Dec 18 - 10:06 PM What do people in the far southern hemisphere do to cheer themselves up in the middle of their winter? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 Dec 18 - 06:05 PM Sorry, I misread the thread title as "Darth of Xmas Cards...." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 12 Dec 18 - 03:52 AM We've had shoals of cards coming through our letterbox. I'm going to have to attach the red ribbons to the small tacks high up on the sitting room walls, and pin all these cards down the ribbons. At the moment they're occupying every available surface and SmokeyPokey is having fun marching about knocking them all over. I've done a survey, and so far there's not one single stagecoach among them! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: leeneia Date: 12 Dec 18 - 02:22 AM I used to send Christmas cards to find out where my college friends had settled. Now I send them to find out if far-flung relatives are still alive. Sad, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: keberoxu Date: 10 Dec 18 - 11:27 AM I thought the exahange of Christmas greetings in cards began in Germany, then migrated to England with those Saxe-Gotha aristocrats who renamed themselves Windsors. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Jack Campin Date: 08 Dec 18 - 04:03 PM Dalkeith is trying to figure out how to commemorate their having the first Xmas tree in Scotland - it was a German thing and Prince Albert prompted it during a stay at Dalkeith Palace. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: JennieG Date: 08 Dec 18 - 02:47 PM I thought Charles Dickens invented Christmas and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert perfected it......at least the idea of jolly family get-togethers, which is why so many card are frozen in the Victorian era. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Dec 18 - 02:04 PM When I worked at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument out in Southern Arizona (it is bordered on the south by Mexico) one of my most interesting hikes was to go around the base of a mountain in the Ajo range called Montezuma's Head that is free-standing from the Ajo range. You can hike around the base of it without having to climb any large ridges, and the route includes the old path of the |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Big Al Whittle Date: 08 Dec 18 - 01:52 PM Stagecoaches are symbolic of families getting together. Coaching Inns with roaring fires and the cup that cheers. Wassail, carols, midnight mass and a happy age long before crap Christmas television. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Jack Campin Date: 08 Dec 18 - 08:11 AM When I was in Istanbul one Xmas, I discovered that the Christmas Eve mass in the French church in Beyoglu was always packed out. But mostly not with Catholics. It's become a local tradition for curious Muslims to go along and kibitz a Christian service. (This was before Erdogan started throwing his weight around, may not be done as much now). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Steve Shaw Date: 08 Dec 18 - 06:31 AM Even though I'm 67 now, I've never lost the habit of taking the card out of the envelope and shaking it upside down (before even seeing who it's from) to see if a banknote falls out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 08 Dec 18 - 06:08 AM Heh heh Jos! He thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread! Tons of delicious food, piles of presents, decorating the house and putting up the tree, lazing around in his dressing gown. He gets quite tearful with the joy of it all. Before he came to UK he hadn't the least idea of what Crimbo is like in the West. He tried to describe it to his amazed family when he visited them, but they found it hard to believe. I had to take no end of photos of him so he could show them. I always send a largish Money Transfer over to Cote d'Ivoire for them all in mid-December, so they can get themselves some nice things. Although they're Muslims and don't celebrate Christmas, I still feel they deserve a treat. They're always ridiculously grateful, which embarrasses me no end. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Jos Date: 08 Dec 18 - 05:16 AM Christmas cards are usually far cheaper than birthday cards and all those other cards they try to sell us. I'm glad your Muslim husband enjoys Christmas. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 08 Dec 18 - 03:59 AM The Sandman Husband is a full-time school cleaner. He's a bit old to still be at school! (His beard is snow white, although he shaves it off from time to time) The teachers whose classrooms he cleans always give him a Crimbo card and some sweets at this time of year. Actually last night he came home with the most mean and stingy card I've ever seen. It was about two inches by three, flimsy paper and a rubbish picture. The sort one gets in packs of fifty for a few bob. Still, it's the thought that counts eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Jos Date: 08 Dec 18 - 03:43 AM Wasn't it the Victorians who invented Christmas cards? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: BobL Date: 08 Dec 18 - 03:27 AM What, to get back to the OP's question, do stagecoaches have to do with Xmas anyway? Snow scenes might be relevant to the Winter Solstice but why the Victorian era in particular? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: The Sandman Date: 07 Dec 18 - 08:23 PM Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou - PM Date: 04 Dec 18 - 06:43 PM Husband arrived home this evening from his school cleaning with two rather early Christmas cards from two of the teachers" Is your husband still at school or is he home schooled |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Jack Campin Date: 07 Dec 18 - 04:37 PM I liked "Father Noel" in Istanbul - a motorized half-sized Santa except his outfit was green. And he was playing a sax. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: keberoxu Date: 07 Dec 18 - 03:28 PM it's the one-horse open sleigh we ought to worry about. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Big Al Whittle Date: 07 Dec 18 - 09:52 AM Well I think its unfair of us who like stagecoaches. Its not like the stagecoaches will get stuck in fishes stomachs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 07 Dec 18 - 04:16 AM We know a lovely gay couple, and every year they send us an 'e card'. It's always by Jackie Lawson (I think one has to pay a small amount to use the service). It's always beautiful, Jackie paints and designs the animated card herself. This time it was an exquisite robin (yay!) bringing bits of twigs, fruits and foliage to create a delightful arrangement in a bowl, while Christmas music plays. At the end, our friends' message appears, and a box where one can reply. We're very fond of the two men and are hoping they might get married next year (If we're invited, I'll have to buy a posh frock and a hat!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: leeneia Date: 07 Dec 18 - 01:08 AM Cute! I especially like the pic of Santa and the newborn baby. Thanks Jennie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: JennieG Date: 06 Dec 18 - 07:45 PM Santa Claus has always been 'Santa Claus' - or just plain Santy - in Oz, 'Father Christmas' was for the posh folk on the other side of the world. Santy in Oz...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Senoufou Date: 06 Dec 18 - 05:56 PM 'Under The Greenwood Tree'. The Melstock quire sets off at the stroke of midnight to sing carols all around the village. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dearth of Xmas Cards with stagecoaches From: Jos Date: 06 Dec 18 - 04:25 PM Robin, Is that in one of his books, or somewhere else? |
