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    Default Re: XMAS, or LOCK DOWN JANUARY, Your thoughts.

    Christmas, bah, humbug as the man said.

    It is a time for families to gather again, to chew the fat, enjoy the company and after too many start another family row.

    According to stats here there are more family disturbances on Christmas day than any other in the year.

    For many a very sad time, more so this year with the Virus associated deaths.
    I just hope that we all look back at the year almost gone and come to understand what we have gone through, how it has effected so many lives, caused so much grief and hope that 2021 brings a new and brighter dawn for us all.

    I see they will begin with Jabs on Monday, good on ya, roll on March when they will begin here.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

    Life is too short to blend in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Keith at Tregenna View Post
    Took a while to find out, what really should fill stockings and
    continued along the same way.

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    Seasons Greetings.

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    Have the best possible Christmas yourself Victoria,
    all the best.

    Keith.

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    Hi Victoria.
    A good wine left to rest awhile tastes much nicer, and so it will be when you meet up with the Grandchildren. Have a lovely Xmas. and that goes for everyone on site.
    Cheers Des
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    That has been the worst of the Virus, not being able to meet with family and friends, and spare a thought for those that died alone with no one but a very kind nurse to hold their hand as they drew their last breath.

    All of which could have been avoided here in Victoria if our most incompetent state gov had done the right thing.
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    What an amazing (& true) story !!!

    I wasn’t actually aware of the full story behind it until I read the following information.

    Truth is often more wonderful than fiction.


    The Real Story Of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

    A man named Robert L. May, depressed and broken-hearted, stared out his drafty apartment window into the chilling December night.
    His 4-year-old daughter, Barbara, sat on his lap quietly sobbing.
    Bob’s wife, Evelyn, was dying of cancer.
    Little Barbara couldn't understand why her mommy could never come home.
    Barbara looked up into her dad's eyes and asked, "Why isn't Mommy just like everybody else's Mommy?"
    Bob's jaw tightened and his eyes welled with tears.
    Her question brought waves of grief, but also of anger.
    It had been the story of Bob's life.

    Life always had to be different for Bob.
    When he was a kid, Bob was often bullied by other boys.
    He was too little at the time to compete in sports.
    He was often called names he'd rather not remember.
    From childhood, Bob was different and never seemed to fit in
    Bob, after completing college, married his loving wife, Evelyn, and was grateful to get a job as a copywriter at the Timothy Eaton Department Store in Toronto, during the Great Depression.
    Then he was blessed with his little girl.
    But it was all short-lived.

    Evelyn's bout with cancer stripped them of all their savings and now Bob and his daughter were forced to live in a two-room apartment in the poorer area of Toronto.
    Evelyn died just days before Christmas in 1938.
    Bob struggled to give hope to his child, for whom he couldn't even afford to buy a Christmas gift.
    But if he couldn't buy a gift, he was determined to make one – a storybook!
    Bob had created an animal character in his own mind and told the animal's story to little Barbara to give her comfort and hope.
    Again and again, Bob told the story, embellishing it more with each telling.
    Who was the character?
    What was the story all about?

    The story Bob May created was his own autobiography in fable form.
    The character he created was a misfit outcast like he was.
    The name of the character?
    A little reindeer named Rudolph, with a big shiny nose.
    Bob finished the book just in time to give it to his little girl on Christmas Day.

    But the story doesn't end there.
    The general manager of the T. Eaton Store caught wind of the little storybook and offered Bob May a nominal fee to purchase the rights to print the book.
    They went on to print “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and distribute it to children visiting Santa Claus in their stores.
    By 1946, Eaton's had printed and distributed more than six million copies of Rudolph.
    That same year, a major publisher wanted to purchase the rights from Eaton's to print an updated version of the book.
    In an unprecedented gesture of kindness, the CEO of Eaton's returned all rights back to Bob May.
    The book became a bestseller.

    Many toy and marketing deals followed and Bob May, now remarried, with a growing family, became wealthy from the story he created to comfort his grieving daughter.
    But the story doesn't end there either.
    Bob's brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, made a song adaptation to Rudolph.
    Though the song was turned down by such popular vocalists as Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, it was recorded by the singing cowboy, Gene Autry.
    “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was released in 1949 and became a phenomenal success, selling more records than any other Christmas song, with the exception of "White Christmas."

    The gift of love that Bob May created for his daughter so long ago kept on returning to bless him again and again.
    And Bob May learned the lesson, just like his dear friend Rudolph, that being different isn't so bad.
    In fact, being different can be a blessing.



    A true Canadian story; can you believe this? Eh?
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    Victoria, we have German friends who tell us that 'Dinner for One' with Freddie Frinton, is watched by nearly every German household every Christmas, we also have Swedish Friends who watch it every year with their neighbours, there is just something about it that knows no borders

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    Dinner for one - the original 1963 NDR performance of the German Silvester ritual, originally a British music hall sketch.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN9edpdCH7c

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