h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You, too! Stay warm!

Just "found out" today, via a bbc teletext page - the Jingle Bells - xmas song.
Was actually composed by an American for Thanksgiving

Yes, this is true!

AND! I'll bet 99% of "brit's" don't know thisco's I only did today

I didn't know THAT. The reason 'Jingle Bells' is a Thanksgiving song has a lot to do with the weather in the northeast US.

Like this week! It's been snowing since yesterday. It's not supposed to quit until tomorrow afternoon.

Two hours' drive from here, on Lake Erie? The snow is as high as you and I are tall.

Here, it's just nice for the kids to play in. And nobody's going much of anywhere.

And this is what I see out my window.

http://www.youtube.com/shorts/sTYl2Ypasr8

Apparently ? it's to do with a race of sorts ? -- "one horse open sleigh" part of the song ?

Cos it is on the beeb teletext pages, I can't copy etc to put here

I feel sorry for "our" birds here in harsh winters
because many have their feet frozen to the tree branches and "lose"them, trying to fly off etc

Yep. See, back in the days before cars, people up here switched to sleighs when the snow got deep.

And they'd take their girlfriends out joyriding. Since it was cold, there was snuggling going on...

And they'd race, too.

The juncos stand on one foot, then the other, to keep warmer.

"And they'd take their girlfriends out joyriding. Since it was cold, there was snuggling going on"

NEVER got that opportunity

This eveningI received an email from "our" postcode "zipcode" lottery folkI've won 12 quid 2nd 12 quid win in 3 weeks (sort of)
Alas! Though it's lowest draw win as per

THEY can't find me for a biggie!1

PS! It costs 12 quid per mth to do it

At least you broke even.

Oh! 'Jingle Bells' was the first song performed in space, too. Here's the recording of the joke they played on Houston:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmsOmqf7Hso

I said in town today, to family I know very well

Xmas is humbug! <evilgrin< I prefer Easter! Co's it only costs me 1 Easter egg!
Xmas cost family and friends


Lottery win - I'm away for comfort food

but! as it's that time here it's normal something to eat before bed

catch you later ok - sleep and dream well both

Thanks! You, too!

And here's a nice song from the album I bought both my sisters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-uk3fvneY

NOT being a "Scrooge" But years agoxmas was good time to be had
But alas! "profit" has taken control IE: Shove everything out early xmas starts in Oct' - Easter starts just after xmas etc etc etc

The true meaning of "events" are now lost by products stacked in shops months before the "event"

True. Which is why it feels rushed that I just ordered my Christmas presents after Thanksgiving. But I don't like to hurry the season.

Particularly because we used to have a lot of time preparing music for the season - school, church...but now most of the kids are grown, and the church people stopped doing it during the Covid mess.

My sister called the other day. She's sending me a box of music. (She's a second-hand book dealer.) Stuff that's good, but she can't sell it because it's a little too frayed, etc.

I didn't think anything of it. And then I got her email today - she mailed the box...

'It weighs 55 lbs,' she warned. 'Don't try to pick it up. Open it and take it inside in pieces.'

Time for extra vitamins then eh ? body/muscle building

In the 70's I once to my local pub, about 1/4 mile away from where I lived THAT was enough exercise for bloody years

I see.

I think, on the whole, it was nice of my (much-younger) sister to warn the old folks when she mails a 55-lb box of sheet music, though.

yesterday I snail mailed xmas cards to friends
Today, I snail mailed a card and a package to friends abroad

I'm afraid (and with understanding of course) To you and ElektraI can only say "seasons greetings etc" on here and my wishes of course!!

and ? I might have "posted" this before ?

A saying I use often:- I'm as fit as 10 men!....9 dead and 1 knocked out