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Merry Christmas from Australia
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Merry Today to all and may your flints always spark in the New Year.
From the Down Under New England where the night was cool and the morn is sunny but nippy.
From the Down Under New England where the night was cool and the morn is sunny but nippy.
And a Merry Christmas to all from the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
Thanks, having a Pimms and trying to recover after the massive Christmas lunch!
Best wishes Colonial Boy
Always wondered what a snowy Christmas would be like! Shorts and beer weather here on Heathcote.
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Hi @Swagman! I'm sitting back reading the forum after a lovely Christmas Day with family, lots of food and drink, visitors have just left, wife is nodding off on the lounge.
I love your olde classic card
. Beautiful. I'm not sure if you are aware, but the line on the card is a reference to a fine poem by Robert Herrick written back in the early 1600s. The poem is a Carpe Diem type of piece - Seize the Day! Ironically, that Kangaroo seems to be doing anything but: sitting back reclining, fishing and drinking, pipe on his blanket ready for leisurely smoking ...Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the best wishes. All the very best to you and yours too!
Here ends the lesson
; and my apologies too, retired English teacher 
.Thanks again.
Cheers, Pete
Hi Pete,Hi @Swagman! I'm sitting back reading the forum after a lovely Christmas Day with family, lots of food and drink, visitors have just left, wife is nodding off on the lounge.
I love your olde classic card
Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the best wishes. All the very best to you and yours too!
Here ends the lesson
Thanks again.
Cheers, Pete
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Have just arrived back home from the daughters place, as usual mountains of food and drink! Tomorrow is recovery day. Thanks for attaching the poem, I did wonder where the quote on the card had come from. I have a number of images of Australian Christmas cards from the 1880's to the First World War and some of them are quite eccentric to our modern eyes!
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Merry Christmas everyone!!! My best to you and your families. 2025 WILL be a very good year!
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Merry Christmas from the Florida Panhandle!
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So have I. We don't get white Christmases very often. In 2009 we received 3.1 in. of snow on Christmas Eve. Kansas City got about an inch on Christmas morning, 2022.
Similarly I've always wondered what it's like to hang out at the beach in shorts, with a beer & a few shrimps on the barbie and singing "Sleigh bells ring/Are you list'nin'/ In the lane snow is glis'nin'..." or "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..." or "In the bleak mid-winter, frosty winds made moan..." Man, that would really mess with my head. I'd probably laugh my head off, everyone around thinking I'd gone mad. "Nah mate," says one "he's just another Yank."
Merry Christmas from PA!
You need to cone down one year to experience it! I must admit my pet hate at this time of the year is any song mentioning snow or a white Christmas, also going to see the local Christmas decorations in 100F heat to find they are all festooned on fake snow!
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Thank you, and everything a truly Merry Christmas is to you all over there in the Americas.
