Vanisle_BC
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Christmas traditions

Well, Christmas & New Year are over. What are your old (or new) family traditions?

We always donate to some international aid agencies.

There are a few things we like to watch or listen to every year: Dylan Thomas reciting 'Childs' Xmas in Wales' and Alastair Sim playing Scrooge. Then there's "The Shepherd" read by the late Alan Maitland of the CBC (Frederick Forsyth - what a writer; Day of the Jackal etc.) And I love The Mistletones' "Christmas Dream;"

".. Ev'ry year we dream it
Hoping things will change;
- an end to the crying,
The shouting, the dying
" ... by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice, no less.

This year one branch of our family gave, and asked for, only items that were already owned, no longer needed/wanted; the new owner being free to keep, swap, re-gift or donate to the thrift store.

Another new tradition is that of being 'socked.' A small Xmas sock containing something edible is presented. The recipient is thereby 'socked' and has 48 hours in which to consume the consumable (preferably on the spot), replace it with a different one and sock someone else. The process can continue beyond the holiday season.
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Vanisle_BC
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Joined: Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:02 pm
Location: Port Alberni, B.C. Canada, Zone 7 (+?)

Oh, coincidence: I just discovered "Christmas Dream" was part of Lloyd Webber's score for the movie "Odessa file," from the book of the same name written by - Frederick Forsyth.



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