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  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    I much prefer my home to parties else where, don't mind throwing a party image Might be an age thing, I used to love Xmas eve & New year, hight heels the full Monty but now in the cold I'm happy at home. Happy to party in the Summer image

    I think we should move Christmas to August 

    Soz to religious peeps I might have offended x  

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  • BerkleyBerkley Posts: 431

    That's what my dog says too. Have fun! (like he does)

  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    That would be high heels not height heels..it's so long ago I got muddled image 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    there is no statistical evidence why christmas day should be Dec 25th

    Devon.
  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    If you start looking at evidence for anything concerned with religion....

    Did you have a good hols?

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    tee hee Steve image There's a building in Godalming in Surrey with " Christ the Scientist" on it. Feck alone knows!!!

    Hols were great thanks. 

    Devon.
  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    The X in Xmas started as the Greek letter chi (which looks like an X) which is the first letter of Christ in Greek.  So calling it Xmas....

     

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    I once read that " calling it xmas is taking christ out of christmas" or some such superstitious old twaddle. Can't we just call it December 25th?

    Devon.
  • Yule will suit me fine - celebrating the turn of the year with feasting, wassailing and holly and ivy etc. 

    If you look at the words of The Holly and the Ivy, you can see how the Church was putting religious symbolism onto the old traditions.

     


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  • image  Equinoxes are around 21 March and 23 September when day and night are of equal length.

    Think you mean the Winter Solstice 21/22 December, when the period of daylight is at it's shortest - my son was born 22 December. image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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