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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #200 on: December 23, 2017, 06:32:59 PM »
this is all you need to know

merry Christmas everyone

https://youtu.be/W5c59qUUnAY

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #201 on: December 23, 2017, 08:28:33 PM »
Beautiful, Walter.  Thank you.  Watched with subtitles so as not to disturb so don't know if it had Carl Sagan's amazing sexy voice.

Just had some (2 helpings) of my husband's Apfel Strudel and it was just wonderful - lots of nice big bits of apple which was what I wanted, pastry as light as a feather.  Perfect!
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #202 on: December 23, 2017, 08:54:01 PM »
Said GPs really ought to piss off and crawl back under what dreary, joyless trying-to-be-funny-and-failing-dismally stone they were under.
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #203 on: December 23, 2017, 10:05:07 PM »
Beautiful, Walter.  Thank you.  Watched with subtitles so as not to disturb so don't know if it had Carl Sagan's amazing sexy voice.

Just had some (2 helpings) of my husband's Apfel Strudel and it was just wonderful - lots of nice big bits of apple which was what I wanted, pastry as light as a feather.  Perfect!
sounds de-lish mmmmm!

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #204 on: December 24, 2017, 04:24:58 AM »



I don't know how many people here will like this.... but from my school days in the 1960's Christmas time has meant Jim Reeves.

Here are some favourites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLmt345o3mc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19gdSmrMNCU

I love to listen to these songs even now.


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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #205 on: December 24, 2017, 04:37:37 AM »


I don't know how many people here will like this.... but from my school days in the 1960's Christmas time has meant Jim Reeves.

Here are some favourites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLmt345o3mc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19gdSmrMNCU

I love to listen to these songs even now.

Thank you for these.

Jim Reeves and Chopin bring the smell of furniture polish into my memory. They were my mother's favourites and she would play them on the radiogram while cleaning the house on Wednesday early closing day. I to a mean version of He'll Have to Go.

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #206 on: December 24, 2017, 08:13:54 AM »
My father liked Jim Reeves.

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #207 on: December 24, 2017, 10:04:38 AM »
My father liked Jim Reeves.
my father liked my mother .

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #208 on: December 24, 2017, 10:08:52 AM »
my father liked my mother .

My father liked your mother! :o  ;) :-[
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #209 on: December 24, 2017, 11:03:49 AM »

My father liked your mother! :o  ;) :-[
NO! , we can't be..... ???

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #210 on: December 24, 2017, 11:05:55 AM »

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #212 on: December 24, 2017, 11:47:01 AM »
Happy Christmas to you all.

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #213 on: December 24, 2017, 06:06:40 PM »
Just attended a very mad lovely Christmas Eve Gala dinner in Goa. Off to watch Scrooged and drink Bailey's. Best wishes to all.


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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #214 on: December 24, 2017, 07:08:05 PM »
Forgot this Xmas essential.

https://www.noradsanta.org

Brilliant for small people.

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #215 on: December 24, 2017, 07:25:06 PM »
Just got a promise of a Christmas present that I'm so excited about. I know that many here are going to laugh at me but I don't care. It's got to be the child in me, I know, but I've always wanted a ride in a fire engine. One of my sons is a firefighter and actually drives the engine. He's about to move to a station that is close to where we live, and he's promised to take the fire engine around the block with me on board, sometime in the New Year. ;D

A very happy Christmas and New Year to everyone. :)
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #216 on: December 24, 2017, 08:23:02 PM »
Happy Christmas, everyone.

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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #217 on: December 24, 2017, 08:24:42 PM »
Yes, hope everyone has a good time.

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« Reply #218 on: December 24, 2017, 10:43:54 PM »
Wishing everyone a great Christmas and Happy New Year
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #219 on: December 24, 2017, 11:54:26 PM »
Happy Christmas to all of you! Thanks for everyone's good wishes.
enki, I can understand your excitement & am glad you are having a ride in a fire engine!
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #220 on: December 25, 2017, 12:07:02 AM »
Wishing you all the joy that Christmas can bring
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #221 on: December 25, 2017, 12:17:50 AM »
Perhaps you will post on a few more threads in the new year, Alan.
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #222 on: December 25, 2017, 01:57:49 AM »
Just got a promise of a Christmas present that I'm so excited about. I know that many here are going to laugh at me but I don't care. It's got to be the child in me, I know, but I've always wanted a ride in a fire engine. One of my sons is a firefighter and actually drives the engine. He's about to move to a station that is close to where we live, and he's promised to take the fire engine around the block with me on board, sometime in the New Year. ;D

A very happy Christmas and New Year to everyone. :)
It's good to see when someone's burning ambition is fulfilled!
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #223 on: December 25, 2017, 06:04:10 AM »
Just attended a very mad lovely Christmas Eve Gala dinner in Goa. Off to watch Scrooged and drink Bailey's. Best wishes to all.


Dear Santa, can you bring me news that Gonnagle is ok?

Wow!  Are you actually in India? What a wonderful place to be at Christmas (I presume you'll be back for Hogmanay).

Why am I up so early you may ask? There was something on my mind, I'd forgotten where I'd put it but thankfully found it.  Will return to bed for a couple of hours.
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Re: The Christmas 2017 thread
« Reply #224 on: December 25, 2017, 07:02:42 AM »
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!  :)