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Not sure if we have a special thread for Christmas photos, but memory seems to think we normally do.
I'll start it off with a photo of my newly-constructed Christmas tree. Stage 1 complete. Stage 2 is tonight, putting up indoor decorations, and stage 3 is tomorrow, putting up outdoor lights. Love Christmas!!
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Mel
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Your memory serves you well Jolly Japes we do usually have a Christmas themed topic.
No decorations in my house but I am not completely unfestive; I am quite happy to partake in a few Christmas traditions...
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Christmas decorating is now done. Inside looks good, but looks 'naff' on camera so no photos of that! Have today completed the outdoor light setup, and a little disappointed. Half the lights dont look as good I would have hoped, and the other half need throwing away and replacing! Still, decided it'll do.
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Here is our tree that we put up this morning:-
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i with you mel.but family be here so i better put something up.all cards decorations down boxing day
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i HATE HATE HATE LOATH LOATH and quite happy work in macdonalds christmas day...when i found out santa not real it put me off 
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and jj not wanting be party pooper the lights very nice but could that amount be dangerous
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JollyJapes
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There's only 8 sets of lights, 5 outdoors and 3 inside. Running off 3 different sockets, should be fine.
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ok,enjoy lights they look pretty,you do know santa not real dont want to upset you
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and both are fairy tails
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Not strictly true.
Santa Claus is based on Saint Nikolous, who I believe came from the Germany area and was I believe a carpenter who had no children of his own, and decided to treat the children of his village with wooden toys one year.
And the other? Well, there has been enough proof to show conclusively that Jesus as a man did indeed exist around 2000 years ago. Most religions accept that, where they differ is the degree of 'holyness' that Jesus had. The fact that he existed is just that, fact.
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i shall go stick my head in bucket and scream...jj there really is not...not even one wiseman son..as we have seen today
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Its a pagan festival taken over by Christianity.
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Thats how things are done George.
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i always think of pagans with white hair god knows why
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Yesterday I watched a programme about houses in Europe with thousands of lights that get bigger each year.Two were in England,one in Germany and two in Holland.There is one house in Arkansas that has many, many thousands of lights and people drive from miles around to see it.Even in our neighborhood their are several houses with thousands of lights.
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i went to light thing in tacoma must have been millian lights amazing place.that was on local tv or some washington tv
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i always think of pagans with white hair god knows why
You obviously haven't met many, then.
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Just to get it back on topic - not a very special one.
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Looks very intriguing, FC. Should be good.
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Thanks BB didnt realise I d got it wrong looks good doesnt it apparently there is a theatre group playing characters popping up here and there hope its magical for them
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Yesterday I watched a programme about houses in Europe with thousands of lights that get bigger each year.Two were in England,one in Germany and two in Holland.There is one house in Arkansas that has many, many thousands of lights and people drive from miles around to see it.Even in our neighborhood their are several houses with thousands of lights.
Meg, I saw a show on HGTV at the weekend that was probably the same one. They had a couple of people in England, others were in Germany and Italy that I remember.
I love to ride around certain neighborhoods to look at the decorations. I have lights outside too. Mine are multicolored and some red ones. I like to see the colored ones, as so many people nowadays seem to use clear. House after house of clear lights is boring to me lol! I wanted to get some green lights, but couldn't find any. Went in several shops and they were all sold out. Next year I shall get them as soon as I see them.
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That is the same one I saw Karen-I forgot about the one in Italy.Years ago we hunted for green glass balls for the tree but could not find any-I think green must be a hard color to find , you'd think red/green are Christmas colors so they would be easy to find!!!!
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Lovely traditional festive pictures, Corine. Is that your house? I like the kachel (heater).
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your house looks lovely...when i was a child my mum took me to holland 5 december,i under impression that was dutch christmas day..st nick and black peter was on horse riding thriugh amserdam i was yanked into an office and given a present scared living daylights out of me.i was only about 5.remember it still..do they still do that?
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Thnx that you like my livingroom 
That's right, on December 5th, the Dutch still celebrate St Nicholas ,
The children believe that this old man from Spain, gives gifts , as they have been kind over the past year ,
Many older people still celebrate Saint Nicholas Day every year, just for fun,
I celebrate it not anymore , now my son is a bit older,
we give each other gifts with Christmas, I like that more than on December 5th,
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Lovely pics Corine-thanks for sharing.
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here is a couple of ours, will post more later.
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I like the snow effect in your tree,
I also see that you placed an Angel at the top of the tree,
I always have a "piek" at the top of my Christmas tree,
how does that called in English and is it also common in England?
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Would that translate as point? Similar to Pique in French
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Similar Malcolm according to google translator point is punt and piek is peak, of course gogle might not know and Corine will tell us correctly
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Hi Corine in England we usually put an angel or a star on the tip
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No i dont think it is Corine a peak is the top of a mountain
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.......it looks like a large glass bauble on the top
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Google translates Piek in Dutch to Peak in English. I actually have something similar on top of one of my Christmas trees in the lounge and an angel on the other one in my dining area. I will take a picture and post it later. A peak is the pointed top of a mountain according to the Oxford dictionary so I think the term is being used 'loosely' in Holland as it amounts to a 'pointed top'
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Here is a picture of our 'spacesaver' tree with a 'Piek'
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This awful picture of the space junk worries me, as well as the wee children. When and where is it going to land?
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Snowdrop I have a friend who is a pagan and she is a blonde, so not quite white hair!
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Snow in Norwich (The Forum) yesterday...artificial snow, luckily. And a couple of local Christmas lights.
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