Tis The Season
Dec. 8th, 2008 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljThe world is slowly getting into Christmas mode...
The Salvos have mini brass bands at every train station.
My decorations are up: big Christmas tree, and bits of tinsel that I keep accidentally pulling down from the ceiling.
There are mince pies being sold in every supermarket, and "Carols by Candlelight" posters on every street corner. (Do people overseas have Carols by Candlelight? Or is it just us?)
Work is getting more silly and excitable by the day.
Every dvd in JB HiFi has just dropped in price by $30. So tempting...
My church had a kids carols service on Saturday (with silly songs and mini dramas, but no puppets, weirdly).
And it's getting hotter. On Friday, I left for work at 6:45am, wearing jeans and a tshirt. First time I've been completely coatless in months.
I love December.
The Salvos have mini brass bands at every train station.
My decorations are up: big Christmas tree, and bits of tinsel that I keep accidentally pulling down from the ceiling.
There are mince pies being sold in every supermarket, and "Carols by Candlelight" posters on every street corner. (Do people overseas have Carols by Candlelight? Or is it just us?)
Work is getting more silly and excitable by the day.
Every dvd in JB HiFi has just dropped in price by $30. So tempting...
My church had a kids carols service on Saturday (with silly songs and mini dramas, but no puppets, weirdly).
And it's getting hotter. On Friday, I left for work at 6:45am, wearing jeans and a tshirt. First time I've been completely coatless in months.
I love December.
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Date: 2008-12-07 09:45 pm (UTC)It's funny, as I was reading this post I was thinking yes, that's me in England ... yes ... yes ...
Then you wrote it's getting hotter - I am wearing 3 jumpers!!!!
We have Carols by Candlelight in England.
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Date: 2008-12-07 09:54 pm (UTC)Christmas day should include games of backyard cricket, dammit!
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Date: 2008-12-07 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-07 10:00 pm (UTC)When I went to Europe (on an exchange program, so I flew in with 30 other Australians, all of us in our late teens), we landed in Vienna just after a big snowfall.
All 30 of us were running round a park, having a massive snowball fight, and we suddenly looked around and saw these tiny kids, about 7 years old, looking at us as if we were nuts. They all had the same expression: a very clear "What on earth are they doing?"
We felt very silly - but then went straight back to chucking snowballs everywhere...