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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Steve H on November 30, 2024, 04:33:21 PM
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Post your stories here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eneqxwd71o
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Traditional
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dpsXNlarAk8
And in looking for it I found this update on the story
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10307731/Grown-star-viral-nativity-video-29-says-shes-no-longer-embarrassed-clip.html
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More musical brats:
https://youtu.be/ElHOnnadLn8?si=hfeaLx4zlDimBtjc
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"I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself" - GF Handel, on completing the Hallelujah Chorus.
https://youtu.be/SXh7JR9oKVE?si=thH7FufcvYAHN_6_
If I ever got surprised by a Christmas flashmob, knowing my luck, they'd be singing "Ding Dong bloody Merrily On sodding High", which I detest.
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Traditional
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dpsXNlarAk8
And in looking for it I found this update on the story
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10307731/Grown-star-viral-nativity-video-29-says-shes-no-longer-embarrassed-clip.html
Priceless!
thanks for this NS :)
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The Magic Theatre - Christmas Lights
https://youtu.be/jMuCSVwLG9Y?si=h--vx-Yb5NMPnu83
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And another Brian Bilston
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Roger Nichols and The Small Circle of Friends - Snow Queen
https://youtu.be/MjRx9y4ISZc?si=R5GvQvNeBx3Srb_z
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Another Christmas shopping mall flash mob.
https://youtu.be/9865b-K9s2w?si=yl1Ry_L5XCwRC274
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Chilly Gonzalez - - Snow Is Falling In Manhattan
https://youtu.be/17u_0mLekkU?si=9ucPIWOZCJUxyfUU
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Bugge Wesseltoft: In Dulce Jubilo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9VCSNYNfB8
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Bleachers - Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call
https://youtu.be/aBpYk9vuneE?si=ihEw8xvsDb0vyiUF
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I think I Post this song most years, so why should this year be any different.
Riu Riu Chiu - The Monkees:
https://youtu.be/JthZskazxKo
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The Muppets - The Ringing Of The Bells
https://youtu.be/ysIzPF3BfpQ?si=6rjUQR3n-o2zvJEg
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Christmas
The bells of waiting Advent ring,
The Tortoise stove is lit again
And lamp-oil light across the night
Has caught the streaks of winter rain
In many a stained-glass window sheen
From Crimson Lake to Hookers Green.
The holly in the windy hedge
And round the Manor House the yew
Will soon be stripped to deck the ledge,
The altar, font and arch and pew,
So that the villagers can say
'The church looks nice' on Christmas Day.
Provincial Public Houses blaze,
Corporation tramcars clang,
On lighted tenements I gaze,
Where paper decorations hang,
And bunting in the red Town Hall
Says 'Merry Christmas to you all'.
And London shops on Christmas Eve
Are strung with silver bells and flowers
As hurrying clerks the City leave
To pigeon-haunted classic towers,
And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky.
And girls in slacks remember Dad,
And oafish louts remember Mum,
And sleepless children's hearts are glad.
And Christmas-morning bells say 'Come!'
Even to shining ones who dwell
Safe in the Dorchester Hotel.
And is it true? And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window's hue,
A Baby in an ox's stall ?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me ?
And is it true ? For if it is,
No loving fingers tying strings
Around those tissued fripperies,
The sweet and silly Christmas things,
Bath salts and inexpensive scent
And hideous tie so kindly meant,
No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare -
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.
John Betjeman
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From the Towneley Second Shepherd's Pageant, 15th Century:
Third Shepherd [to the infant Jesus]
Hayll, derlyng dere,
Full of godhede.
I pray thee be nere
When that I have nede.
Hayll, swete is thy chere.
My hart wold blede
To se thee sytt here
In so poore wede
With no pennys.
Hayll, put furth thy dall;
I bryng thee bot a ball.
Have and play thee withall
And go to the tenys.
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Glasgow Central, Christmas 1964. Long shadows and fairy lights at Glasgow Central, Christmas 1964 Oscar Marzaroli
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Fab photograph.
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Fab photograph.
I was talking to Gordon, his grandson and his grandson's girlfriend a couple of weeks ago, and telling the youngsters, not you Gordon, about how that's how I remember Christmas in Glasgow. Dark, black and white, and more glamorous than now.
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Vainica Doble - Oh! Jesus!
https://youtu.be/RnuwFqH9TaY?si=gCdjXwsDtR_-Gelx
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Anabel Montesinos: “Villancico de Navidad” (Augustin Barrios)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5trM0F2k_Y
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Glasgow Central Station in 1950
. The concourse Christmas tree was a perennial favourite with its model railway around the perimeter.
📷 Newsquest
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Yoko Ono - Listen, The Snow is Fall8ng
https://youtu.be/VQG46cHgZ4E?si=CirCOO9mDYpw2ykN :o
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Irn Bru vs Coke trucks
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The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
https://youtu.be/KIhIBFPtnoc?si=gS404B39lu4aPANa
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Christmas 70's style, with lashings of political incorrectness:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dr7HqWgKtmCA&ved=2ahUKEwiYvser8ayKAxUAQ0EAHfmjMcUQwqsBegQIGBAF&usg=AOvVaw24wvUk3EpG2FRc9c_niFVR
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Cats Christmas party. Louis Wain ca. 1910 😸
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The Little Eskimos - Hooray for Santa Claus
https://youtu.be/L5Dcrm8LlRY?si=TeBD9K34mh7TiEEv
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NSF well pretty well anywhere. Shauny Boy's A Very Unionist Christmas
https://youtu.be/Ldlyzcfsk8M?si=_1_OVaZtgUPggXa-
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The Beach Boys - Winter Symphony
https://youtu.be/d3tKPiH5LgA?si=6jsUTqF87i2BSxEU
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Spotted on my morning walk today:
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Our local post box has knitted Christmas decorations on it too.
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Our local post box has knitted Christmas decorations on it too.
My parents' village in Hampshire often sports knitwear on its postboxes.
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Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman
https://youtu.be/Pds_K2j3RKM?si=I3IZJ10SW6xHYQHI
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Faye O'Rourke and Patrick Dexter - The Wexford Carol
https://youtu.be/t4v76l_E-VQ?si=Or3ORuDeneKH7lt0
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The National Jazz Trio of Scotland - Jingle Bells
https://youtu.be/DUiJS1pdElc?si=cXOJ0TJQEw4lTNne
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Saul Steinberg (Romanian-American, 1914-1999)
Christmas card, 1949
For The Museum of Modern Art
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Du Blonde - It's Christmas and I'm Crying
https://youtu.be/oVgqb2_L314?si=9ZbW6D4klieS7H1F
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Du Blonde - It's Christmas and I'm Crying
https://youtu.be/oVgqb2_L314?si=9ZbW6D4klieS7H1F
Is that you, Gordon?
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Valerie Masters - Christmas Calling
https://youtu.be/Xslyq0PGizY?si=HUe187-MoyZl8lrH
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Not specifically Christmassy though I always associate Simgin in the Rain with Christmas but just delightful, Paddington Bear does Singin in the Rain
https://youtu.be/kHg6QjhvsCM?si=xdP5X7bfiLwjBaEy
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Not specifically Christmassy though I always associate Simgin in the Rain with Christmas but just delightful, Paddington Bear does Singin in the Rain
https://youtu.be/kHg6QjhvsCM?si=xdP5X7bfiLwjBaEy
Did I detect a nod to the Morecambe and Wise version when he stood under the spout, or is that in the original?
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Did I detect a nod to the Morecambe and Wise version when he stood under the spout, or is that in the original?
It's in the original. The Morecambe and Wise version is very close to the original apart from the Morecambe bits.
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Christmas football chants
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ced85x95q2lo
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Amateurs
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/24/average-briton-causes-23-times-more-co2-on-christmas-day-study-reveals
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Eyvind Earle, Christmas in Central Park
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Merry Christmas. The board is a microcosm of life, and so many members are gone not through choice.
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Joan Eardley (1921–1963) - Catterline in Winter - 1963
Collection: National Galleries of Scotland
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The Cords - Favourite Time
https://youtu.be/m9Uyv2W0_iE?si=EQwwR5bnCRkhVA1J
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Bernard Kliban (1935-1990)
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A bit of heartwarming post-Christmas non-bollocks:
I suppose that, at 73,I qualify as a clapped-out old fart. must look like one, because, about an hour ago, I was walking back fromm my local Aldi, which is about 300 yards from my house with two bags full of shopping, and had just entered the footpath that goes most of the way, when a young black woman with a lovely Caribbean accent approached me and offered to carry my bags for me. They weren't all that heavy, but, not wanting to appear rude or ungrateful, I accepted her kind offer. She carried them to the other end of the footpath for me.
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