On Christmas Eve
Don’t
lay awake in bed
All
you naughty girls
Blonde,
brunette or red
For
instead of presents
You
may get a shock instead
You
may catch Santa
Dressed
in his suit of red
Emptying
his sack
At
the end of your bed
Wednesday 5 May 2021
A HAND FOR SANTA
TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS PUNCH RECIPE
TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS PUNCH RECIPE
Ingredients:
2
pints of water
8oz
sugar
Half
a bottle of rum
Half
a bottle Port
The
juice and rind of 3 lemons
1
sliced apple
1
sliced orange
Grated
nutmeg
Instructions:
Add
the sugar and lemon rind to the water in a saucepan and boil. Remove from the
heat and when cool strain before adding the rum, port and lemon juice.
Decant
into large a pre-warmed punch bowl and float the sliced apple and orange on the
top and finally sprinkle with nutmeg.
Tuesday 4 May 2021
THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MY CHRISTMAS DREAM (2016)
Christina Masters (Danica McKellar) is the manager of McDougal's flagship department store and she's determined to land the manager position for their new Paris location, so she sets out to impress Victoria (Deidre Hall), the store's owner and founder, by creating the best holiday display in McDougal's history, ably assisted by her second in command Holly (Christine Lee).
The window display is a pivotal part of McDougal’s
Christmas as it’s the 25th annual Christmas display and with just twelve days
before Christmas Christina is fresh out of inspiration, so she turns to a recently
fired store employee, Kurt (David Haydn-Jones) for help and as they work
side-by-side, the business relationship becomes personal and she finds herself
falling in love, and her priorities changing.
TOPSY TURVEY
A major part of the Romans pagan Saturnalia festival, the ritual turning everything upside-down and the temporary loss of the distinction of ranks, a reversal of all order and dignities where slaves were served by masters, soldiers served by their officers passed on into the British Christmas celebrations.
It was probable a remnant of the roman culture left behind when the great
empire first shrunk and then fell.
The custom was carried out to great lengths at Christmastime in England during
the middle Ages.
It was customary to appoint a “Lord of Misrule” or an “Abbot of Unreason” or
even the 'Lord of Merry Disport' who presided over the blasphemous foolery and
this appointment was normally made by a significant noble.
However in England an 'Abbot of Misrule' was chosen in every large household
though in Scotland it was an 'Abbot of Unreason'.
During the thankfully short term of the festival he was the master of the
house.
The church hierarchy frowned upon this Blasphemy but had to put a brave face on
it.
Church leaders would certainly not approve of the fact that it was quite
customary even for the clergy to indulge in the paganism.
Thankfully the early Puritans who witnessed the jolly antics of the grotesque
fools abolished the practice, the only good thing they ever did, and when the
puritans lost their power the practice was never revived.
There is still a tradition within the British Armed forces and the Metropolitan
Police service where the lower ranks are served Christmas dinner by the
officers but that is all that survives.
SEASONAL SNIPPET # 09
If you don't take your Christmas decorations down by twelfth night January 5th you should leave them up until the 2nd of February which is Candlemas.
COOL YULE
Last day of school,
Kids
say “that’s cool”
Angel’s
wings
Shepherd
brings
Presents
for Jesus
Rudolf
sneezes
Everything
is frosting over
Even
my car made by “Rover”
Reindeer
fly
But
I can’t fly
But
I have cream on my
Hot
mince pie
But
I still get a lift
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