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aye!Wandering Willy wrote:Is it double time on Christmas Day?thebish wrote:Happy Christmas one and all - just back from my third and final service of the night - a glass of slow gin and some carols from Kings College Cambridge while the house is quiet.... bliss...
then up for christmas morning service...
(not!)aye, and i bet they get a cracking dinner break.Wandering Willy wrote:Is it double time on Christmas Day?thebish wrote:Happy Christmas one and all - just back from my third and final service of the night - a glass of slow gin and some carols from Kings College Cambridge while the house is quiet.... bliss...
then up for christmas morning service...
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Christmas Day dawns with a clear blue sky and a promise of a 30+ temperature today!!!! Christmas is certainly strange in Perth Western Australia.
No snow, no ice, no freezing cold winds from Siberia hitting the east coast like a hammer and no rain, just sun and heat and more heat. I hope that the airconditioning survives the day.
But we did have a major Cyclone (Hurricane in nothern parlance) that hit the West coast of the northern part of Westetrn Australia a couple of days ago destroying a few townships and killing loads of cows. Also, bush fires doing something similar in South Australia, and that's not counting the rabbit that tried to swim across our pool and couldn't get out again, another family that's lost a parent to drowning!
But the turkey is already in the oven and everything else is prepared to welcome our daughter and her family who are due soon. The grandkids (4 and nearly 2) wil be running riot as normal and we will all have a great time. Son-in-law's mother is also here from Sweden so we will be quite an international lot this year. Plenty of food and drink
and a sleep 
in front of the tele, perhaps it's not that different from England after all!
Merry Christmas.
No snow, no ice, no freezing cold winds from Siberia hitting the east coast like a hammer and no rain, just sun and heat and more heat. I hope that the airconditioning survives the day.
But we did have a major Cyclone (Hurricane in nothern parlance) that hit the West coast of the northern part of Westetrn Australia a couple of days ago destroying a few townships and killing loads of cows. Also, bush fires doing something similar in South Australia, and that's not counting the rabbit that tried to swim across our pool and couldn't get out again, another family that's lost a parent to drowning!
But the turkey is already in the oven and everything else is prepared to welcome our daughter and her family who are due soon. The grandkids (4 and nearly 2) wil be running riot as normal and we will all have a great time. Son-in-law's mother is also here from Sweden so we will be quite an international lot this year. Plenty of food and drink
and a sleep in front of the tele, perhaps it's not that different from England after all!Merry Christmas.
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Just for you, Prufrock. (I was at this gigPrufrock wrote:Merry Xmas, happy Hannakah and a belting Winter Solstice to you all.
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Boxing Day is Christmas at Casa Dujon. Since my children are now well out of the nest, and have been for many a year, we (that's the wife and I) decided - with the blessing of our children - to have a family get together today (our time). In fact it is almost traditional. This allows them both - I only have two - to celebrate Christmas Day with their partner's family. Today it's our turn. It also means that they won't eat as much. 
Not that you'd know looking at what my wife has prepared. I don't complain as she seems to delight in producing food in abundance. Left overs for a couple of weeks I fear.
I have never been a party person, unless having too many libations with a few mates counts as partying, but I do look forward to a family get together. Once a year.
Perhaps I'm an oddity in the social circle? Dinner parties or soirees are an anathema to me and if invited to such I will duck and weave and find some method or other to avoid attendance. I think that I have to date a 99% success rate.
I'm off to do the hoovering, dusting and the adoption of the persona of a general factotum for a bit. Yes, for a change, I shall enjoy every minute of it.
Happy Boxing Day, all.
Not that you'd know looking at what my wife has prepared. I don't complain as she seems to delight in producing food in abundance. Left overs for a couple of weeks I fear.I have never been a party person, unless having too many libations with a few mates counts as partying, but I do look forward to a family get together. Once a year.
Perhaps I'm an oddity in the social circle? Dinner parties or soirees are an anathema to me and if invited to such I will duck and weave and find some method or other to avoid attendance. I think that I have to date a 99% success rate.
I'm off to do the hoovering, dusting and the adoption of the persona of a general factotum for a bit. Yes, for a change, I shall enjoy every minute of it.
Happy Boxing Day, all.
Bruce Rioja wrote:Just for you, Prufrock. (I was at this gigPrufrock wrote:Merry Xmas, happy Hannakah and a belting Winter Solstice to you all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwvRG1fmPe8
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happy New Year one and all....
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
(T.S.Eliot - commenting on Megson's sacking)
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead.
The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.
All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
(Edward Payson Powell - commenting on Megson's sacking)
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
(T.S.Eliot - commenting on Megson's sacking)
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead.
The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.
All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
(Edward Payson Powell - commenting on Megson's sacking)
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