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Wishing all of you a very Happy Christmas wherever you are, whatever you are doing and whoever you are with - and a healthy new year :)
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Yes I know it's early (well it is last Sunday in Advent!) - but we are off today for a week to a holiday property in Cornwall for Christmas and husband's big birthday, and I don't have a laptop or i-anything - just a smart phone (my pc will stay here) - so I won't be logging onto anywhere nor posting - just an occasional glance maybe at the internet!
See y'all later girls!
Hurdity xx :)
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Happy Christmas to you Hurdity. Have a great break. We are off to Bodmin for New Year, where are you staying?
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Happy Christmas to you and your family, Hurdity. Have a great time in Cornwall! :)
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"Have yourself a Merry little Christmas..."
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS! 🎄
And Happy Birthday to you DH!🎂
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Happy Christmas Hurdity and thankyou for all the support in 2015.....happy holidays..... ;D
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How lovely, and a merry christmas to you and all the lovely ladies on this forum. :)
clio
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happy xmas and new year to one and all xx ;D
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Happy Chrismas to you and your family, Hurdity! Enjoy the time off, and the celebrations!
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:) Happy Christmas Everyone! ;D
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Happy Christmas to you too Hurdity. Hope you have a lovely time, and birthday wishes to your DH.
:hbday: Mr Hurdity
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Wishing you a wonderful Christmas Hurdity
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Merry Christmas Hurdity and all on the forum. I am out on the day with family, and having a quiet day with DH on Boxing day, wont be on-line for either of them.
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I can't remember - do we get post/mail on Boxing Day ?
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No deliveries or collections on Christmas or Boxing Day according to their website.
Taz x
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Happy Christmas to all from me too - or at least as happy a Christmas as your circumstances permit!
:) Dorothy x
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No deliveries or collections on Christmas or Boxing Day according to their website.
Taz x
Doh, I never thought of looking on their website - :thankyou:
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I had to check the other day!
Taz x :D
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Theres no post till Tuesday. Im glad the posties are getting a few days off this year, they work so hard in all weathers, I love my postie hes so polite and helpful.
Clio
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They guess that they have to have Monday off as it's a Bank Holiday. I feel sorry for those in retail though who only get Christmas Day off and that's it. For the first year in ages I have no sons working in that sector and it's been great to have them staying for longer than one night. I've been eaten out of house and home though - so lovely to have the house back to "normal" but all will be quiet again by Wednesday.
Taz x
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My son had to work on Christmas Day, 24 hr as a paramedic in the USA. Worked again yesterday and saved a life, thanks to all his training, skill and calmness. My husband worked most Christmases, as a policeman, when the children were young leaving me to do Father Christmas duties! My son says thanks to me Christmas was a magical time for him. Praise indeed.
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I don't see why shops have to open Boxing Day anyway. Our local garden centre closes and everyone appreciates that the staff get to have two days off to be with their families. I've never minded doing essential work on holidays (livestock etc) but I don't see why we have to have shops open 364 days a year.
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C..mas should be a fixed time span - C.mas Eve on Thursday, followed by the Day on Friday, Boxing Sunday and 2 days off work …….. we managed without shops being open as kids!
Is it all over yet :-\ - can I surface ?
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Nope now it's gearing up for New years day ! 8)
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:-X oh hush ……….. :lol:
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Of course if no one actually shopped on Boxing Day, the shops wouldn't open...
As for New Year, for years it's been a normal working day/two days for me, so I'm usually in bed by 10.
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...on the 6th day of Christmas my true love sent to me: six geese-a-laying, five gold rings....lalalalala la la la two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree!
Of course it's not over yet! We're just half-way through the 12 days of Christmas - still plenty of time to eat drink and be merry and celebrate the season :)
Happy Christmas to you Hurdity. Have a great break. We are off to Bodmin for New Year, where are you staying?
Thanks toffeecushion and all....Mousehole and it was fab :). Have a great time near Bodmin whenever you are going?
Hurdity x
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I love the time after Christmas. I enjoy all of the decorations and "fuss" more then as the actual four or five days of rushing around making sure everyone is happy, comfy and well-fed are over and I can enjoy my own time. I always leave mine up until twelfth night. Must be the big kid in me!
Taz x
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It's over. Done. Nights are pulling out ………. I keep the cards and a few decorations up everything else: paper, ribbon, boxes are into the attic already.
All these reminders do not help those recently bereaved or those who are not expecting a loved one to life into the New Year :'(
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We had some sad news at christmas, my familey on my dads side has grown quite big now however we never see each and some ive not even met however one of my cousins grandson died. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was 5, he died at 8pm christmas eve aged just 7. Really sad, I had met him once at my Aunts 8oth birthday, he was unwell then and was only going to stay a short time but he liked the fuss and wanted to stay longer, he was a lovely little boy.
Clio
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:hug: that is very very sad new Clio, my heart goes out to the whole family.
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It is so very sad to lose loved ones around Christmas - and indeed at any time, so my thoughts are with anyone who is recently bereaved. My own dear father spent his last Christmas in hospital and died a couple of weeks later, some years ago and this always brings back memories.......
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However this is meant to be a Happy Christmas thread, and it would be a pity to end on a sad note so.... like Taz we always leave everything up for the full 12 days - which is why we put up decorations and the tree as late as possible - as said earlier Christmas does not start on Dec 1st!!!
Today is the 9th day....on the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, NINE LADIES DANCING eight maids a milking seven swans a swimming six geese a laying five gold rings......
Although I don't call myself a lady, (a woman instead) - let's dance!?
Hurdity x :)
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Good idea! I spent the last week at school practising the Twelve Days of Christmas dance. I collapsed into giggles each time we got to Six Geese a Laying. So funny. It's a brilliant workout though!!
Have just found this which is very similar to the school version except you get faster and faster each time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdZip-1nrU
Taz x
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That youtube was funny but the words to the last 4 verses were in a different order to the version I learnt as a child which was...12 drummers, 11 pipers, 10 lords, 9 ladies so of course I had to look it up and it seems the version I learnt was the one published by some guy in early 1900's with the tune as we know it - and presumably taught in schools, but many of the much earlier versions had the verses in the order of the American Youtube ie 12 lords, 11 ladies, 10 pipers, 9 drummers so not sure why he changed it! The oral folk tradition maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29
Oh well there's no way I can re-learn it now as it's etched in my memory. So perhaps we can dance again in a couple of days if that's your version ;D
What do you sing in Scotland?
Hurdity x :)
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My favourite 12 days of christmas version is one with dogs in it. I dont know how to do the the link thing but if you go on to you tube and type in dogs sings 12 days of christmas it should come up. Very very funny, i love dogs.
Clio
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I loved Christmas when I was was an early years teacher. Lovely memories of all the little girls dressed as angels and the little boys dressed as shepherds lined up excitedly to go into the hall for the nativity play. Oh gosh that's scary! Those little children from my first year of teaching will be 45..........!
This Christmas was lovely as my GS is 3 and full of Christmas joy and excitement.