General Chat

quiet Christmas but nice - weather grim though - snow and ice hanging around since last Sunday night - treacherous - it has rained overnight though and now we have slush!!! More snow promised for next week!!!

Ann X

Hi Ann, I'm right over in the west. There was a big tropical cyclone up north last week so I think some of the nasty weather ended up going east.

But it has been a lovely Christmas even tho it was warm.

Hope yours was great too!

Funny reading about Rupert - my sister in law (who was born in UK buut has been in Oz for 20yrs) was reminescing about getting an annual every year in her stocking, Judy for her and Beano for her brother!

thanks Tec - I think Rupert is part of many childhood memories - just to see a picture of Rupert fills me with nostalgia

Nadolig Llawen

Ann XXX [in a snowy icy Cardiff]

Good luck with your letter Ann. It is brilliant, and filled me with nostalgia, All I ever wanted each year as a boy was a new pencil box, and a book. The old Rupert books were magical. Life was simple then, and we appreciated everything we got on Christmas Day.
Thanks for the memory.

Nadolig llawen, a Blwyddyn Newydd dda,

Tec.

thanks for sharing that with us anne, and your right xmas just isent the same these days, jack frost used to come to our house too and make the patterns on the window, xmas was truly magical when i was a kid
pat

thanks Cherilyn - where are you in Oz? I have two cousins in Sydney and one in Adelaide

n

n

That's luverley Ann! I hope you win the contest!

No chance of being cold here tomorrow, forecast is 35C! (40 for Mon & Tues, yuk!)

Merry Christmas to all, whether you are snowed in, feeling the heat or somewhere in between, may your ham be yummy and the turkey moist!

:-)

n

LOL Maggie; how do you know it's someone dressed up as Santa?

It might the the man himself.

When I was a tiddler, Mum took me to see Father Christmas. I was actually a bit scared of him, but I accepted the present, of course. One year I was put onto a 'train' in a department store and the train rocked and rolled along, the scenery changing as we 'travelled'. After meeting the man in red, we boarded the train and went on the return journey. My face must have been a picture of wonder and I couldn't understand why Mum was laughing so much.

She must have thought that was a couple of shillings well spent!

Birdi

Round here, someone (I don't know who - but I'd like to thank him)dresses as Santa and walks round the estate ringing a bell on Christmas morning.
Such a small thing - but so precious to children.

I was so lucky to have such terrific parents too - we were quite poor but I never went without and they always made sure that above all else I always had good shoes - Startrites - and I'm 73 now and my feet are absolutely perfect - can't comment on the rest of me but the feet are good!!!!

just goes to prove that children are - or were - unaware as to whether they were poor or not - as long as they were happy that's all that mattered

What lovely memories, Ann.

I have also written about my childhood Christmas days in my 'Childhood' book and yes, we had Jack Frost pictures on the insides of the bedroom windows (weren't they beautiful and no two alike they told me), and like you, we never felt the cold on Christmas morning. Mum lit BOTH fires for two days. Dad spent all his savings on special food, drinks, fruit, nuts, sweets and presents.

I still silently thank Mum and Dad every year for making my childhood Christmases so special.

Birdi

n

what a lovely thing to do - wish I'd thought of it when mine was a little un!!!!

When my oldest 2 children were about 3 & 4, my sister was round just before christmas helping me bath them. They were getting very excited about Santa coming and my sister mentioned that they'd better be good because Santa went round all the houses checking on all the girls and boys. I opened the bathroom window then crept downstairs to the back garden and rattled some little jingle bells underneath the window. My sister said their faces were a picture when they heard the bells as they were convinced Santa had just peeped in on them. They couldn't get out of the bath, into pjs and bed quick enough. It made that christmas really special for them and they couldn't wait to tell eveyone the next day that they'd heard Santa going by on his sleigh. They were extra well behaved up till christmas day too. Merry Christmas everyone!!

Carolyn

Merry Christmas to you too - and listen out for those sleigh bells!!!!

That is really nice.Merry Christmas to you x

n