Jolly Christmas thread
Dec 12th 2018, 11:41 pm
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Dec 13th 2018, 5:01 pm
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Dec 19th 2018, 9:50 pm
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Put the tree up today. 14th xmas overall and the lights still work perfectly.
Dec 20th 2018, 12:58 am
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Google + Home Alone = funny.
I love the music this group makes, first noticed them 8 years ago in a Hyundai commercial.
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Dec 20th 2018, 11:28 pm
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Went out to eat tonight and I was looking forward to seeing the lights on houses around the neighbourhood.
Lovely to see but really not many. One in 15 to 20, I reckon. Not many even had xmas trees visible through the window.
Lovely to see but really not many. One in 15 to 20, I reckon. Not many even had xmas trees visible through the window.
Dec 21st 2018, 1:03 pm
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This song - about coming home for Christmas - has become a bit of an anthem in Newfoundland. (Hey Rosetta! being Newfoundlands finest indie rock folk band). As an expat the glimpses of Europe in the video make it doubly poignant!
Dec 21st 2018, 1:12 pm
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Oh yes, and to the fact that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, 20th Century Fox has just recut the trailer as a Christmas movie and it's sublime....
Dec 21st 2018, 1:14 pm
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Oh yes, and to the fact that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, 20th Century Fox has just recut the trailer as a Christmas movie and it's sublime....
Plus of course there is the "Honest Trailers" version:
Plus of course there is the "Honest Trailers" version:
Dec 21st 2018, 3:25 pm
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Back home decorating for Christmas seems more popular but nothing like it was in the 80's and 90's when I was growing up, seems decorating with lights and making a city look cheerful isn't all that popular anymore.
Dec 21st 2018, 3:47 pm
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But according to snowfall stats it could only have been one winter.
Same with remembering long hot summers. I don't think we had one until I was 19.
Dec 21st 2018, 4:32 pm
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Ah yes the winter of 1962/63 remember it well loads of time off school that winter.
Dec 21st 2018, 4:37 pm
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That could just be the nostalgia thing. My childhood memory of winters involves going to a nearby field where we'd build snow barriers for our snowball fights; building snowmen; walking along the sidewalk in snow so deep it came over the top of my wellington boots; another field with a slope for tobogganing - or sledging as we called it then.
But according to snowfall stats it could only have been one winter.
Same with remembering long hot summers. I don't think we had one until I was 19.
But according to snowfall stats it could only have been one winter.
Same with remembering long hot summers. I don't think we had one until I was 19.
But there were way more houses lit up with lights, go down my old street today and there are few houses with lights on, growing up every house on the street decorated.
Dec 21st 2018, 6:33 pm
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My Grandkids live in a small town very close to rural farmland and many kids are bussed in every day. Mine have learned how to go to the school board website first thing in the morning and they cheer loudly with much running around and jumping on furniture after learning its a SNOW DAY, so no school for them either. The little buggers know I hate SNOW and tease me endlessly about it, by phoning me and/or sending me photos of them having fun frolicking in the F%&$):=g Stuff.
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Dec 21st 2018, 10:15 pm
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Dinners lined up for next week.
- Christmas Eve - Seafood Lasagne converted from vegetable lasagne with my own shrimp and salmon sauce
- Christmas Day - Roast Lamb leg (mint sauce)
- Boxing Day - Duck and whatever else is decided
