I only have about 3 cards I can exchange locally - others are all over the country plus a few overseas. One of the joys of us and them moving around over the years... The postage really does come to a tidy sum. The cats will appreciate it🙂
I’m making sure everyone’s got our email addresses and phone numbers and I’ll do e-cards to those who give us theirs. I’m still going to do some special ones for people who are on their own - just not the mass of Christmas cards.
The thermometer suggests it’s been milder today / tonight - but I’ve been frozen all day. Was going to do some more gardening but couldn’t face it🥶
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Welcome all to the end of the week. T'Bird, I agree with what you said about feeling cold all day yesterday. I found it hard to get warmed up when I got home from Bestie's. I hope its milder today as I'm off playing Canasta later and the Cricket Club where we meet is not the warmest of rooms.
Rebecca - all good wishes to you too and the next chapter in your boiler epic.
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Good morning LB and all to follow. Finally, after few weeks, blue sky and sunny morning. No frost here, it's pretty warm. I had yesterday evening a parent's meeting about senior pupils trip next summer. I came home with headache. Well, it's beginning to look like C******s and I'm excited. I brought my lights and ornaments from attic and I'll decorate my house around St. Nicholas (5. December). We have slightly different tradition, children getting presents on St. Nicholas. They must put clean shoe on window sill. Presents on C****s day is new tradition.
Morning LB ,Ante and Chive. Ante your traditions are very interesting. Love ,children putting clean shoes on window sills. Chive my kettle is on . LB enjoy your Canasta.
Jutro Ante, hello Chive. Ante - I remember those days well! Trips out with pupils got more and more complex here to comply with all the health and safety aspects and signed permissions needed from everybody. Taking children out on trips DID become a headache and all the joy was taken out of them. Very interesting to hear about St. Nicholas and the clean shoe on the windowsill. I wonder why that was important? I think it would be interesting to research traditions and how they came about.
Chive enjoy your day with the small people.
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Morning LB, Ante, Chive, Rubee and all to come. A little brighter this morning so hopefully won’t feel quite so cold.
Fingers crossed Rebecca has heating tonight and LB doesn’t grow icicles playing Canasta.
The Christmas Fair is on in town from yesterday to Sunday. I’ve told you about it before. It’s a huge international affair with coaches and cars from all over the country and the continent. Takes over the whole town and there’ll be armed police and steel road blocks and traffic chaos from this afternoon when things really kick off.
I’m thinking about going in this morning when it will probably be much quieter to pick up some bits and pieces from the shops and W’rose. If the traffic looks too bad when I get to the outskirts I’ll turn back and go to H’base and S’burys and leave the Christmas shopping for another day.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Morning T'Bird. Will you go in to have a mooch around the C*******s Fair? We have a tiny version in the village and it is nice to get a little frisson of excitement looking around the stalls. Last year it absolutely poured with rain so I did pass that one.
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If I can get in to town and parked I’ll go and have a mooch LB. It’s a nice atmosphere - especially after dark. We used to go on the Friday evening when it first started and was much smaller several years ago. Rather lovely wandering round the stalls drinking mulled wine.
But it’s now so big that the town is gridlocked and there’s nowhere to park. There some temporary Park & Ride and Park & Walk sites but they are very expensive - £15 per car!!! I guess if it was a car-full going for the whole day it wouldn’t seem quite so bad - but definitely too expensive for two of us to go in for an hour or two.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
PS - I think the St Nicholas tradition of filling shoes with sweets and small gifts has many similarities with our hanging up Christmas stockings.
I believe the tradition is that St Nicholas threw money through the windows of poor families. The tradition grew for children to leave shoes by the window on the Eve of St Nicholas’s feast day in the hope that they would find a few coins and sweets in there in the morning.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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I’m making sure everyone’s got our email addresses and phone numbers and I’ll do e-cards to those who give us theirs. I’m still going to do some special ones for people who are on their own - just not the mass of Christmas cards.
The thermometer suggests it’s been milder today / tonight - but I’ve been frozen all day. Was going to do some more gardening but couldn’t face it🥶
Finally, after few weeks, blue sky and sunny morning. No frost here, it's pretty warm.
I had yesterday evening a parent's meeting about senior pupils trip next summer. I came home with headache.
Well, it's beginning to look like C******s and I'm excited. I brought my lights and ornaments from attic and I'll decorate my house around St. Nicholas (5. December). We have slightly different tradition, children getting presents on St. Nicholas. They must put clean shoe on window sill. Presents on C****s day is new tradition.
Rebecca, good luck with boiler today.
Fingers crossed Rebecca has heating tonight and LB doesn’t grow icicles playing Canasta.
The Christmas Fair is on in town from yesterday to Sunday. I’ve told you about it before. It’s a huge international affair with coaches and cars from all over the country and the continent. Takes over the whole town and there’ll be armed police and steel road blocks and traffic chaos from this afternoon when things really kick off.
I’m thinking about going in this morning when it will probably be much quieter to pick up some bits and pieces from the shops and W’rose. If the traffic looks too bad when I get to the outskirts I’ll turn back and go to H’base and S’burys and leave the Christmas shopping for another day.
But it’s now so big that the town is gridlocked and there’s nowhere to park. There some temporary Park & Ride and Park & Walk sites but they are very expensive - £15 per car!!! I guess if it was a car-full going for the whole day it wouldn’t seem quite so bad - but definitely too expensive for two of us to go in for an hour or two.
I believe the tradition is that St Nicholas threw money through the windows of poor families. The tradition grew for children to leave shoes by the window on the Eve of St Nicholas’s feast day in the hope that they would find a few coins and sweets in there in the morning.