Christmas Story on the Front Page

• Guest 641

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  24 December 2011     21:06144067
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  That's a nice Christmas story you have put up on the Front Page PaulB, really good to read after attending the Children's Christmas Mass at a packed St. Paul's. I was hoping to kick start my Spirit of Christmas sometime today and that's put me in a perfect frame of mind. Now for a warming glass of cognac and a mince pie ..... Happy Holidays
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  24 December 2011     21:13144069
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  It is true that Christmas has been slow to warm up this year, although that might be just me. But today the lights are on the tree, I have had my champagne gin cocktail and indeed the story on the front page hits the spot. My son is making mulled wine, the wonderfully named chocolate enrobed figs are on the plate along with the mince pies, and there is a wonderful scent of cinnamon in the air. At last, Christmas bites!! And it feels good!
• howard mcsweeney1

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  24 December 2011     21:13144070
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  and to you barry, will we see you at the elham hunt on boxing day?
  
  let's hope those working class chaps don't disrupt it this year.
• Keith Sansum1

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  24 December 2011     21:32144078
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  i will try not to howard lol
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• Guest 710

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  24 December 2011     22:38144079
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  Ah, yes. Christmas. Such simplicity, such joy. To be a child...in the sixties. I remember it well. I recall too that old tune and the lyrics of Allan Sherman's Camp Granada, but then it all seems to have gone wrong...
  
  
  Dearest mudda
  dearest fadda
  why at Christmas
  must I share with
  my granfadda
  he keeps gassing
  he keeps snoring
  Why me? Why me? I'm imploring
  
  What's so different
  about yule-tide
  that I must set off
  to one side
  teacher's warning
  of old-man dangers
  to never accept gifts from any strangers
  
  Dearest Fadda
  dearest mudda
  why so different
  from my brudda
  he shares with auntie
  he's not complaining
  tho' she sleeps in py-jams scanty
  
  why keep on with
  this tradition
  while all year
  I, strangers run from
  please remind me, dearest parents
  where actually do babies come from
  
  It's the 24th
  of December
  I am to be visited
  (as I remember)
  while I'm sleeping
  some old guy
  into my bedroom will be creeping
  
  Wait a minute
  Christmas morning
  I awaken
  as day is dawning
  in the half-light
  can it be right
  that in the night
  my stocking are with presents yawning
  
  Dearest Fadda
  dearest Mudda
  I feel better now
  that it's ova
  and please
  say thanks to Santa
  for doin' more than
  any udda coulda
  
  Merry Christmas.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  24 December 2011     23:11144085
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  I love that stuff............................
  
  Tom, remember Lake Woebegone?
• Guest 710

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  25 December 2011     00:41144087
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  Yes Bern, but I came to that a bit later. There is this, still going strong, even tonight...
  
  http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 656

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  25 December 2011     11:37144115
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  Hi dad, its Briony
  
  LOVE the christmas story on the front page !
  have a very merry christmas :
  
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