It's Christmas!

DCat · Post by **DCat** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:56 pm

Well, Advent, anyway.

They've had lots of Christmas music on the radio, the Sally were out in town on Saturday, I've started wrapping things - I'm in the groove!

Haven't written the cards yet, though

And I've used the Santa emoticon.

I've also had a bottle of cinnamon beer, which has put me in a very strange mood...... perhaps it's the prospect of Ladies Night

Rizzo · Post by **Rizzo** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:49 pm

I've been drinking mulled wine, I tell myself it's good for my sore throat and cold.

Congratulations on being the first to use the Santa emoticon this year, DCat!

Remember, December 5th is the last airmail posting day for destinations outside Europe.

Kinoulton · Post by **Kinoulton** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:55 pm

My dearest wish would be to be able to bawl out this thread title in the manner of Noddy Holder.

Alas, I sound like a twit when I try.

Rizzo · Post by **Rizzo** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:37 pm

Indeed, Belper Jon, but here is always an excuse for mulled wine when it's cold.

And today is also the saints' feast days of
St. Bibiana
St. Chromatius
St. Lupus of Verona
St. Pontian

One of those must be worth celebrating!

Rizzo · Post by **Rizzo** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:13 pm

I believe in a different sort of mumbo-jumbo

Suz · Post by **Suz** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:14 pm

[quote="Rizzo"]Indeed, Belper Jon, but here is always an excuse for mulled wine when it's cold.
quote]

Move over mulled wine I have a new Chirstmas drink, winter pimms with hot apple juice!

I love Christmas and I think the build up to its great!
Got my Christmas CD is the car now, make the traffic jams so much better!

Gate · Post by **Gate** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:25 pm

If it's Chrimble, it must be Chimay. Niiiice. Here's to St.Bibiana.

DCat · Post by **DCat** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:34 pm

BelperJon wrote:If people think it is Christmas already, may I suggest they get their calendars recalibrated. The last time I checked it was on 25th December, not 1st December.

Which is why I said it was Advent. You can't fault that one, BJ.

They had the Famous Grouse advert on this evening. And it was St Andrew's Day on Sunday.

wills_#1fan! · Post by **wills_#1fan!** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:12 am

I have my decorations up!!
Done my tree anyway!!!

westy154 · Post by **westy154** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:18 am

I'll not be the grumpy one on the thread, opting for the "I don't like it so I'll stay out of it" philosophy, but it's always a grand excuse to point people to an article that I wrote several years ago now for the BBC (East Midlands), pointing out why I dislike Christmas.

http://tinyurl.com/9mxl2

But as I say, I'll not hijack this christmas thread with an anti-christmas slant.

Jim__2 · Post by **Jim__2** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:06 am

Belperjon wrote:
"Um ... strange how nobody has yet mentioned the real reason for Christmas, i.e. the celebration of the alleged birth of the founder of Christianity."

Which shows just how much Christmas has been blown out of proportion.

Rizzo · Post by **Rizzo** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:01 am

Westy, I have edited the link to a tiny one - good article, although I disagree with some of it.

I love Yule - evergreen decorations (not plastic ones!) making popcorn strings which we then drape on the trees for the birds, making hot spiced cider, mulled wine and doing the "cakes and ale" thing. I just wish I had (a) a chimney and (b) a big fireplace to burn logs!

Yule is the time to celebrate the darkest day of the year passing, and from then on it gets a little lighter each day, although we're still in winter, the promise of Spring's new life is there under the frost and ice. I do enjoy parts of Christmas too, the carol singing, the elements that cross over from Yule like candles, spices and incense, good food and drink with loved ones, but I really dislike the commercialism -the "let's go mad with over-buying on everything", the waste of food and packaging, and the ignorance of any true spiritual meaning, whatever your beliefs, or even if you have none.

I also hate chocolate advent calendars!

westy154 · Post by **westy154** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:02 pm

Thanks Rizzo, I can't reach TinyURL at work.

As my article says, I don't object to people celebrating it; my parents are both deeply religious and I fully respect their wishes, I just don't like having other peoples, anything really, foistered on me. Leave me be, and I'll leave you alone too!

cornish tigress · Post by **cornish tigress** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:56 pm

Rizzo wrote:I also hate chocolate advent calendars!

WHAT! That has to be one of the best recent advances in Christmas detritus. There is always a point to chocolate.

Gate · Post by **Gate** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:42 pm

cornish tigress wrote:There is always a point to chocolate.

Except in hot weather, when it's more of a squashy end.