Merry Christmas
- Dick Ackerman
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and or Happy Holidays.
From Rainy and snowy New Hampshire USA
Dick Ackerman
From Rainy and snowy New Hampshire USA
Dick Ackerman
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- Fred in Skirts
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Re: Merry Christmas
And a Merry Christmas back at ya. Dick!! From sunny but cool South Carolina.
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Re: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from overcast Floriginia...
(It seems we're having a Flordia Christmas this year! )
(It seems we're having a Flordia Christmas this year! )
-Andrea
The old hillbilly from the coal fields of the Appalachian mountains currently living like there's no tomorrow on the west coast.
The old hillbilly from the coal fields of the Appalachian mountains currently living like there's no tomorrow on the west coast.
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Re: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas all!
Re: Merry Christmas
Surprised Dick isn't out by his infinity pool. Well, It's all over bar the shouting now and it's been very quiet with us. Hosed with rain all day, so no dog-walking. Forecast better for tomorrow.
Preposterous presents.... A lady friend produced this ginormous ceramic German tankard. The sort young Kraut bloods quaff gallons, sorry, liters of Pils out of. Those days are gone for me now. Nice thought, though.
Woolly jumper is also a prezzy....not quite the same blue as my denim bottom, but what the hell!
Tom
Preposterous presents.... A lady friend produced this ginormous ceramic German tankard. The sort young Kraut bloods quaff gallons, sorry, liters of Pils out of. Those days are gone for me now. Nice thought, though.
Woolly jumper is also a prezzy....not quite the same blue as my denim bottom, but what the hell!
Tom
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Re: Merry Christmas
I wish Merry Christmas too.
Miloš
Miloš
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Sorry for my English. I try not to make spelling mistakes, but for this reason my writing is very slow.
Miloš H., Nový Knín, Central Bohemia
Sorry for my English. I try not to make spelling mistakes, but for this reason my writing is very slow.
Miloš H., Nový Knín, Central Bohemia
Re: Merry Christmas
And may you all have a grand Boxing Day too, to top it off.
Cheers, FG
Cheers, FG
Re: Merry Christmas
Long ago in Britain well-heeled people with little else to do would call round to friends' houses and deliver little greeting cards on the day after Christmas Day. This became widely practiced and people placed a little special box outside their doors for people to put their greetings in and so that day became known as boxing Day.
The religious appellation for December 26th is the feast of St. Stephen as referred to in the carol 'Good King Wenceslas'.
In Ireland December 26th is (St.) Stephen's Day, never Boxing Day.
Tom
The religious appellation for December 26th is the feast of St. Stephen as referred to in the carol 'Good King Wenceslas'.
In Ireland December 26th is (St.) Stephen's Day, never Boxing Day.
Tom
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Re: Merry Christmas
Thanks for the history lesson. Do people still put out the little boxes? Or hand deliver cards?
I did know about the Feast of Steven, glad it's still known that way in Ireland.
But more importantly, can a man be considered "well-heeled" without wearing high heels?
I did know about the Feast of Steven, glad it's still known that way in Ireland.
But more importantly, can a man be considered "well-heeled" without wearing high heels?
Re: Merry Christmas
It is the day after Christmas Day, and my understanding is that it was the day when you would you would distribute boxes (gifts) to your servants, or to the poor. The OED says that this usage goes back to the 17th Century.
In the UK, it is a public holiday.
Myself, I'm more puzzled that boxing has come to mean punching people.