My daughter who is quite BIG on the tree and decs (kid of 6 and 8) it goes up early but comes down Boxing Day, ours comes down New Years Day, seems weird to me to drive past houes with lights etc lit on 5th January, its all been done and dusted. Golly Logasn, you have sprouts EVERYDAY! thats amazing! Didnt grow any for last Christmas, because they were very good the past couple of years, and were only about 40p for a bag. We didnt "do" Christmas for years, (Mother in law ruined it, aong other things!) Then the grankids came along, it was resurected. Every year same daughter took the micky out of our 1 mt high white tree, so this year we had a 2 mt nordman, had to buy new decs for it, I also knitted Father Christmas etc. But Christmas has got ridiculous, I am not religious either but its all Father Christmas, he didnt actually have anything to do with it either. Grand kids got the most ridiculous ammount of presents, conpletely pointless and over the top. Then a lot of kids get MORE presents after Christmas, because they didnt get eactly what they wanted. She works in a softwear gaming dept of a toy store, and was shocked at people whose 8 year olds had i phones, yet, she is still buying the kids stuff.
Ours are all down now and the place looks so bare! My missus insists on them staying up as long as possible so I have no chance of getting them out before the 6th.
Nanny Beach - think of it instead as the old pagan celebration marking the passing of the winter solstice and the gradual lengthening of days. This is, after all, what Christmas is, just hijacked by the Church, like Easter and spring rites.
Our tree and all the lights came down yesterday and downstairs had a good spring clean. Lovely now it's done.
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...I also knitted Father Christmas etc. But Christmas has got ridiculous, I am not religious either but its all Father Christmas, he didnt actually have anything to do with it either. ...
Welllllllllll .... he wasn't 'there on the night' so to speak but there are stories of St Nicholas who was a Christian bishop delivering presents around Christmas time ......... and in the UK we called him Father Christmas (probably something to do with the Reformation etc as we weren't hot on saints then).
So he has got something to do with marking the occasion
All our decorations are down now ............. I think ........ I often find something later in the year that has hidden itself behind something on the bookcase ...........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
St Nichoas (Sinta Claes in Dutch and Flemish) is celebrated in The Netherlands, Belgium and Epinal in France on the 6th of December which is when children get their prezzies and sweets and oranges. If they've not been good, Zwarte Piet leaves them a lump of coal. They turn up at shopping precincts and schools and office parties for kids and so on but the politically correct are trying to suppress Zwarte Piet on racism grounds.
Dutch emigrants took that tradition to New Amsterdam when they left Europe and he morphed into Santa Claus and merged with he wider Christmas tradition of feasting and mass.
When we adopted Rasta on March 1st, many years ago now, she had never been groomed. When we had her shaved a month or so later (after kennel cough and jabs) we found Xmas tree needles and bits of tinsel stuck in her matted coat.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
She must have been really uncomfortable. Her coat was like felted sheep fleece when it came off.
10 kilos of skin and bone underneath. Nearly 10 years later she's 17.5 kilos of well muscled woolly bear as we keep her coat clipped before it goes Rastafarian again.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Ou decs are all now down and put away for next year
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My daughter who is quite BIG on the tree and decs (kid of 6 and 8) it goes up early but comes down Boxing Day, ours comes down New Years Day, seems weird to me to drive past houes with lights etc lit on 5th January, its all been done and dusted. Golly Logasn, you have sprouts EVERYDAY! thats amazing! Didnt grow any for last Christmas, because they were very good the past couple of years, and were only about 40p for a bag. We didnt "do" Christmas for years, (Mother in law ruined it, aong other things!) Then the grankids came along, it was resurected. Every year same daughter took the micky out of our 1 mt high white tree, so this year we had a 2 mt nordman, had to buy new decs for it, I also knitted Father Christmas etc. But Christmas has got ridiculous, I am not religious either but its all Father Christmas, he didnt actually have anything to do with it either. Grand kids got the most ridiculous ammount of presents, conpletely pointless and over the top. Then a lot of kids get MORE presents after Christmas, because they didnt get eactly what they wanted. She works in a softwear gaming dept of a toy store, and was shocked at people whose 8 year olds had i phones, yet, she is still buying the kids stuff.
Ours are all down now and the place looks so bare! My missus insists on them staying up as long as possible so I have no chance of getting them out before the 6th.
Nanny Beach - think of it instead as the old pagan celebration marking the passing of the winter solstice and the gradual lengthening of days. This is, after all, what Christmas is, just hijacked by the Church, like Easter and spring rites.
Our tree and all the lights came down yesterday and downstairs had a good spring clean. Lovely now it's done.
Ours are all down now. Except one lot of fairy lights I think I may keep up all year.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Welllllllllll .... he wasn't 'there on the night' so to speak
but there are stories of St Nicholas who was a Christian bishop delivering presents around Christmas time ......... and in the UK we called him Father Christmas (probably something to do with the Reformation etc as we weren't hot on saints then).
So he has got something to do with marking the occasion
https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/fatherchristmas.shtml
All our decorations are down now ............. I think ........ I often find something later in the year that has hidden itself behind something on the bookcase ...........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
St Nichoas (Sinta Claes in Dutch and Flemish) is celebrated in The Netherlands, Belgium and Epinal in France on the 6th of December which is when children get their prezzies and sweets and oranges. If they've not been good, Zwarte Piet leaves them a lump of coal. They turn up at shopping precincts and schools and office parties for kids and so on but the politically correct are trying to suppress Zwarte Piet on racism grounds.
Dutch emigrants took that tradition to New Amsterdam when they left Europe and he morphed into Santa Claus and merged with he wider Christmas tradition of feasting and mass.
When we adopted Rasta on March 1st, many years ago now, she had never been groomed. When we had her shaved a month or so later (after kennel cough and jabs) we found Xmas tree needles and bits of tinsel stuck in her matted coat.
Oh ... bless Rasta .... she kept her decorations up too long .... ((hugs for Rasta)).
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
She must have been really uncomfortable. Her coat was like felted sheep fleece when it came off.
10 kilos of skin and bone underneath. Nearly 10 years later she's 17.5 kilos of well muscled woolly bear as we keep her coat clipped before it goes Rastafarian again.