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Christmas has well and truly arrived in Brum - the lights are up in the city centre. I took these pix tonight, sorry they're not fantastic but they're hand-held, so a bit shaky.  Each year we get a Frankfurt Market in the city centre and it appeared earlier this week! It must be good because there were loads of people standing outside near the Town Hall in the near-freezing temperatures drinking German beer - they seemed to be enjoying themselves.   |
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« Reply #1 on: 22:26:00, 15-11-2007 » |
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On the whole, Andy - HATE it!   |
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Antheil
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« Reply #2 on: 22:36:20, 15-11-2007 » |
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I dislike Christmas, in fact I have in mind to head down to Sussex and spend it with Martle
Snork! Don't anyone tell him!!
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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Morticia
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« Reply #3 on: 22:38:47, 15-11-2007 » |
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My biggest bug-bear over the `Festive Season` is New years Eve. I absolutely HATE IT !! All the forced jollity and celebration, people who would never normaly go near a glass of dry sherry yet, because it`s NYE, get totally hammered, generally become a pain in the backside and rush around kissing policemen or anyone they can get hld of. I find NYE rather depressing actually. I steer well clear of such celebrations.
With apologies
An anti-social Mort
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« Reply #4 on: 22:40:27, 15-11-2007 » |
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I dislike Christmas, in fact I have in mind to head down to Sussex and spend it with Martle
Snork! Don't anyone tell him!!
I'll be in Wales!!   |
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« Reply #5 on: 22:46:42, 15-11-2007 » |
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Oh great Martle, You in Wales?
Then we will be so near, yet so far away?
Be still, my beating heart (Calon Lan to thee and me)
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« Reply #6 on: 22:55:50, 15-11-2007 » |
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Each year we get a Frankfurt Market in the city centre and it appeared earlier this week! It must be good because there were loads of people standing outside near the Town Hall in the near-freezing temperatures drinking German beer - they seemed to be enjoying themselves. Whenever I've seen such a thing in Germany they've been drinking not beer but nice warming Glühwein... don't tell your lot that though!  |
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Lord Byron
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« Reply #7 on: 22:57:10, 15-11-2007 » |
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I like parts of it, is nice to see nephews rush down on christmas day and talk about 'santa' etc.
One of the best christmas times I had in recent years mainly consisted of listening to some choice repeats on 3 and reading 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' so was an 'odd one' but actually very nice.
Oddly enough, now i am in some social clubs i have mega options for christmas dinners and new year parties etc. but as new years eve is always cold,busy and often pricey i usually spend it indoors, in the warm.
The big negative i find is all this present stuff, giving sis some cash to 'get nephews what they want' and telling most other people 'buy yourself something from me' works well, apart from retired relatives and nephews who i contribute towards.
Suppose christmas is never as cool as when yer a kid, just way it is.
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« Reply #8 on: 23:02:52, 15-11-2007 » |
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Suppose christmas is never as cool as when yer a kid, just way it is.
For me Xmas hasn't started until I've stood in a supermarket queue behind someone with a trolley full of booze who says "Of course I wouldn't bother except for the kids" |
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« Reply #9 on: 23:04:32, 15-11-2007 » |
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying is so cool, do you relare to Gordon Comstock and his frayed cuffs?
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« Reply #10 on: 23:06:17, 15-11-2007 » |
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Loathe it. If you're not a child or deeply Christian, what's there to love about it, anyway? Two indulgent festivals are crammed together within the space of a week..then the new year dawns, cold, bleak and dark. Last week, someone told me I was 'really miserable', because I never put Christmas decorations up! |
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« Reply #11 on: 23:07:38, 15-11-2007 » |
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For me Xmas hasn't started until I've stood in a supermarket queue behind someone with a trolley full of booze who says "Of course I wouldn't bother except for the kids"
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« Reply #12 on: 23:13:08, 15-11-2007 » |
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Keep the Aspidister Flying is so cool, do you relare to Gordon Comstock and his frayed cuffs?
sometimes, do you ? |
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« Reply #13 on: 23:18:18, 15-11-2007 » |
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Well of course I do, being a poetl but why do you?
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« Reply #14 on: 23:20:07, 15-11-2007 » |
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I'm with the Bah Humbug tendency - I loathe the commercialism, the tawdriness, the false bonhomie, the sheer ceaseless activity of it all.
The most bizarre Christmas I have spent was with the in-laws in New Zealand a few years ago - having gone down under expecting that Christmas would consist of a barbie on the beach, I hadn't reckoned with that distinctively Kiwi combination of the cultural cringe and vice-like tension of the sphincter that is eternally New Zealand. It wasn't just the fact that one was duty bound to go to church and listen to the Queen in silence (everything stops for the Queen in NZ), but mostly the strange feeling of walking around in 30 degree heat and then going into shopping centres full of reindeer, fake snow, Santas etc, and the feeling that here in midsummer it was somehow sensible to try and appropriate the spirit of Dickens.
The year I was there the news reported a national shortage of Santas (this sort of thing is big news in NZ) as students were unwilling to take the jobs and sit around in hot costumes all day - and many of those who did appeared to keep themselves well lubricated; we saw one Santa roaring drunk in the street in Oamaru, and in the centre of Christchurch overhead the following exchange:
Child: "Mom, why's Santa pissed?"
Mother: "Well, he's had to drag those presents all the way from Lapland ..."
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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