Christmas Greetings 2007

[mark smyth]

to all members ..

[David Nicholson]

Thank you Mark, and best wishes to you all from me as well. (with no pretty picture I'm afraid)

[Katherine J]

Best wishes to all from Hungary!

[Kristl Walek]

Hello New Friends Of SRGC....

Its the perfect day to send my holiday greetings....
as it was not possible to leave the house today.

We are in the throes of our first major winter storm, which is depositing up to 60cm of snow before morning. It's been snowing and blowing all day, and already past my knee-high boots, and -27C. The new accumulation adds to the 2 feet already there. Tomorrow I will have to blaze a new trail through the snowbanks back to the office building located at the rear of the 8 acres...

It's been a lovely opportunity to have a day without work, for a change. So blazing fires were lit in both fireplaces, shortbread and soup was made, and a roast was even cooked for dinner, with music playing to accompany the good feelings. Needless to say, the weather has given me this gift and inspired me to share it with you.

I wish you all similar warm spaces and feelings for the holidays....

Kristl
North Gower, Ontario, Canada

[Anthony Darby]

Still Advent here in Dunblane

[Paul T]

And a Merry Bah Humbug from here in Australia too. 

Kristl, not good to hear you're getting the storms.  Some pretty aweful pics of the ice storms through the centre of the US, then now the heavy snowfalls in the East.  Got you as well eh?

[David Nicholson]

And a Merry Bah Humbug from here in Australia too. 

Glad to see there is another lover of Christmas on the Forum Paul! My lot call me Scrooge. Christmas for me starts on Christmas Eve after the shops have closed and ends at bedtime on Boxing Day. Nice to have the family around me though. It wouldn't be so bad if Christmas wasn't pushed down your throat, by the stores and garden centres, from the beginning of October.

[Paul T]

Gee, they wait until October in your area.  How positively reserved of them.  One year (and thankfully only one year) we saw Christmas stuff in one store in the last week or August.  I just couldn't believe it.  Of course you do realise that after boxing day it's then marketing for Easter don't you? 

I just hate the commercialisation...... but I put up Christmas lights as it is so cool to see people looking out the window of their cars and enjoying them.  Nothing too fancy, but it is another few spots of colour for people to look at.  About 10 houses up from us there is a place that has lots of lights up, and two houses from them has a few up as well, so ours add a bit more further down the road for people to enjoy after the others.  It's the taking them down after Christmas that often doesn't happen until March.    Or in the case of one set of "rope lights" (i.e the lights are built into a rope, rather than being separate replaceable globes) they never got taken down at all.  They still worked fine this year thankfully.  The good thing with the rope light is that the cockatoos and parrots aren't as likely to destroy them.  If we don't get the lights taken down by mid January we usually end up finding that bits are missing when we take them down, or else they are just totally shredded if they are along the gutter of the house where the cockies can perch and get a good solid go at them!! <sigh>

It's all fun though!! 

[Brian Ellis]

It wouldn't be so bad if Christmas wasn't pushed down your throat

I always think of our cruise to see the Midnight Sun in Norway.  It was mid June and ideal weather, one of the day trips had a compulsory visit to a Christmas decorations shop!!

[Joakim B]

Me wife likes to buy Christmas decorations to hang in the tree from different parts of the world that we visits so it is fun if there exists special Christmas shops. (I like it as well.) I do not like to see them in the normal shops but this Year I have to think many times to realize it is Christmas. I have not been exposed of Christmas songs or other things like that in a perticular high degree.

Lights on houses are great it makes the dark nights less dark.
Joakim

[Anthony Darby]

And a Merry Bah Humbug from here in Australia too. 

Glad to see there is another lover of Christmas on the Forum Paul! My lot call me Scrooge. Christmas for me starts on Christmas Eve after the shops have closed and ends at bedtime on Boxing Day. Nice to have the family around me though. It wouldn't be so bad if Christmas wasn't pushed down your throat, by the stores and garden centres, from the beginning of October.

Exactly. The 24th of Decmeber is Christmas eve (with outbreaks of Christmas occuring about midnight). That's soon enough.

[Rob]

Christmas greetings to all members and lurkers

No bah humbug here

[mark smyth]

C'mon everyone where are the cards?

[Martin Baxendale]

C'mon everyone where are the cards?

Okay, here's one from a range of Xmas cards I've created and will be publishing for Xmas 2008 - if I can find a distributor! (not as easy as it sounds) or get one of the big chains like Clinton interested (even less easy than it sounds!)

Happy Xmas to one and all from the Baxendale mob.

Card and cartoon copyright M. Baxendale 2007 (sorry, gotta say that):

[Andrew]

C'mon everyone where are the cards?

I d'not have your address Mark  .