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Post by stace on Nov 3, 2011 23:20:54 GMT
No fair We don't have Christmas and not single item related to Christmas. Good luck to all At least you don't have to listen to terribly annoying Christmas tunes played around the clock through poor quality sound systems in every single retail store from London to Sydney for weeks on end. For this, BB, you should be very thankful!
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Post by nat on Nov 4, 2011 0:30:50 GMT
I celebrate each new day that dawns A man after my own heart Barrie
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May 14, 2024 1:56:31 GMT
robert
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Post by robert on Nov 4, 2011 0:56:22 GMT
We celebrate a ton of stuff other than Christian holidays here but I never felt like we were in competition with Christmas around this time of year.
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Nov 4, 2011 5:05:41 GMT
No fair We don't have Christmas and not single item related to Christmas. Good luck to all At least you don't have to listen to terribly annoying Christmas tunes played around the clock through poor quality sound systems in every single retail store from London to Sydney for weeks on end. For this, BB, you should be very thankful! Yes Stace I have heard about this before as well. Sure I am thankful But still want to have a Christmas dinner with a big (in number) and happy western family. Do you have to carry gifts for each member of the family if you are invited to Christmas dinner
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May 14, 2024 1:56:31 GMT
robert
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Post by robert on Nov 4, 2011 7:50:29 GMT
A pie would be perfect or some wine.
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Post by stace on Nov 4, 2011 8:06:22 GMT
At least you don't have to listen to terribly annoying Christmas tunes played around the clock through poor quality sound systems in every single retail store from London to Sydney for weeks on end. For this, BB, you should be very thankful! Yes Stace I have heard about this before as well. Sure I am thankful But still want to have a Christmas dinner with a big (in number) and happy western family. Do you have to carry gifts for each member of the family if you are invited to Christmas dinner You'd want to go to a Northern Hemisphere Christmas dinner, to get the real traditional feel - preferably a 'white Christmas' with snow. And the customary food is so heavy, you'd want it to be cold to appreciate it. As for gifts, I'm not sure what the protocol is for Xmas guests, but probably similar to a regular dinner party with just a simple gift for the host - maybe a tin of special gourmet biscuits or chocolates, or maybe a bunch of Christmassy flowers. The whole present thing is very much focused on young children, rather than the grown ups. They often get much too spoilt with presents these days, but something simple for the little kids as well maybe.
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Nov 4, 2011 10:01:17 GMT
Yes Stace I have heard about this before as well. Sure I am thankful But still want to have a Christmas dinner with a big (in number) and happy western family. Do you have to carry gifts for each member of the family if you are invited to Christmas dinner You'd want to go to a Northern Hemisphere Christmas dinner, to get the real traditional feel - preferably a 'white Christmas' with snow. And the customary food is so heavy, you'd want it to be cold to appreciate it. As for gifts, I'm not sure what the protocol is for Xmas guests, but probably similar to a regular dinner party with just a simple gift for the host - maybe a tin of special gourmet biscuits or chocolates, or maybe a bunch of Christmassy flowers. The whole present thing is very much focused on young children, rather than the grown ups. They often get much too spoilt with presents these days, but something simple for the little kids as well maybe. Thanks for the insight of the Christmas A white Christmas would be lovely. All left now is to find a family in snow areas and vacation from work in the same days ;D
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Oct 7, 2011 15:25:32 GMT
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Post by brian r on Nov 4, 2011 15:14:11 GMT
You'd want to go to a Northern Hemisphere Christmas dinner, to get the real traditional feel - preferably a 'white Christmas' with snow. And the customary food is so heavy, you'd want it to be cold to appreciate it. As for gifts, I'm not sure what the protocol is for Xmas guests, but probably similar to a regular dinner party with just a simple gift for the host - maybe a tin of special gourmet biscuits or chocolates, or maybe a bunch of Christmassy flowers. The whole present thing is very much focused on young children, rather than the grown ups. They often get much too spoilt with presents these days, but something simple for the little kids as well maybe. Thanks for the insight of the Christmas A white Christmas would be lovely. All left now is to find a family in snow areas and vacation from work in the same days ;D budgiesbuddy your celebrations look cool go for it and maybe Marrianne will put a little footnote explaining your entry i look forward to your entry and who knows youll probably get more than 1 vote
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Nov 4, 2011 15:16:12 GMT
Thanks for the insight of the Christmas A white Christmas would be lovely. All left now is to find a family in snow areas and vacation from work in the same days ;D budgiesbuddy your celebrations look cool go for it and maybe Marrianne will put a little footnote explaining your entry i look forward to your entry and who knows youll probably get more than 1 vote Thanks for the idea Brian. I can certainly sense more than one vote this time around ;D
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Oct 7, 2011 19:59:02 GMT
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Post by ianb on Nov 4, 2011 21:38:00 GMT
A pie would be perfect or some wine. and some mushy peas
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Post by Hezz on Nov 5, 2011 0:55:18 GMT
Does anyone do mulled wine anymore? I think I would like that.
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Post by milliej on Nov 11, 2011 17:57:15 GMT
Does anyone do mulled wine anymore? I think I would like that. I bought a bottle of mulled wine, just hope it turns out to be as good as the stuff my daughter gave me last year (or the year before!) when we visited her. We have never had a traditional Christmas, as we were used to going on summer holidays in the southern hemisphere! Took a bit of getting used to, coming back to the cold, dark winter Christmases I remember visiting my brother-in-law and his wife in Singapore and she insisted on having a good old-fashioned Christmas, with turkey and the lot! Crazy woman ;D very enjoyable but boy.......not what I would have cooked myself! I would have gone for a Chinese or Malayan dish. I look forward to church especially on Christmas morning, as it's a boring day otherwise with no kids at home (unless they visit of course) and no grand-children. I love to sing the Christmas carols, which ....strangely enough.....we only sing at Christmas ;D
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Post by Hezz on Nov 12, 2011 1:28:09 GMT
My mum used to do the big cook-up too, Millie. Never mind that we had an old wood stove and the inside on the house would be well over 120 cegrees F in the middle of an outback summer. We had no air con, no ceiling fans and only one little desk fan. No water to swim in, just hot and dry. If there was a breeze, it was hot too! Outside the house the temp would get over the 120 mark too, but we did have lots of trees around for shade.
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