The Bah Humbug Thread

[MrGongGong]

You went and didn't tell anyone!! Which you wrongly accused me of about the Laibach gig!!@*

I was actually about 100 yards away - was it good?

Ellen Fullman was awesome
and Stephen O'Malley was predictably loud, minimal and epically droneish

Great venue as well

[Beef Oven!]

Ellen Fullman was awesome
and Stephen O'Malley was predictably loud, minimal and epically droneish

Great venue as well

Did you meet her? How is she?

Good venue - I have a mate who's done some bits and pieces with the University of Westminster.

[MrGongGong]

Did you meet her? How is she?

Good venue - I have a mate who's done some bits and pieces with the University of Westminster.

I did meet her
She is fascinating and the Long String Instrument is tremendous, such a simple but beautiful idea well executed

[Nick Armstrong]

half Irish, half German--my standard line is that after consuming a few Guinness they get an irrisistable urge to invade Poland

Love it! ... loved your whole post Richard! Mazel-tov for Fröhliche O'Ho ho ho's to you and Mrs F.

I find it reasonably easy to find and cherish the good things about Christmas - esp. the music and above all, like others, the broadcast at just after 3pm on Christmas Eve. I loved hearing for the first time in a year In Terra Pax &c. on that great Hilary Davan Wetton CD in the car this evening on the way home through the winter fog from a convivial pre-Festive lunch north of London with friends inc. angelic children who'll be away over the holidays). I'm with Dickens in that quote upthread about the rôle of Christmas, and I and mine manage to ignore (or at least make a point of minimising) the excessive or irrelevant tat that can make it all repellant and counter-productive.

I was in nursing for a good few years! Had to retire for health reasons

You needed to take care of yourself !

[Beef Oven!]

I did meet her
She is fascinating and the Long String Instrument is tremendous, such a simple but beautiful idea well executed

And that instrument must be worse than a drum kit (to get into a Transit van!).

[Bryn]

Where were you matey?
You missed Ellen Fullman and Stephen O'Malley

Damn. I could have made that if I had been alerted about it.

[P. G. Tipps]

Do members get these daily 'Advent Calendar' emails from retailers ... ?

I've just received mine this morning from one kindly, generous source, which I couldn't possibly reveal, and which offers a pack of 8 Cushelle Toilet Rolls at the bargain price of £9.99.

How did they guess? ... just what I've always ..........

EVEN BETTER ... on further investigations the offer is for 32 rolls with 8 free rolls thrown in ... wow!

[ahinton]

Do members get these daily 'Advent Calendar' emails from retailers ... ?

I've just received mine this morning from one kindly, generous source, which I couldn't possibly reveal, and which offers a pack of 8 Cushelle Toilet Rolls at the bargain price of £9.99.

How did they guess? ... just what I've always ..........

EVEN BETTER ... on further investigations the offer is for 32 rolls with 8 free rolls thrown in ... wow!

It could have been worse; at least the blurb didn't include "only used once"...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It could have been worse; at least the blurb didn't include "only used once"...

It's an offer not to be sniffed at.

[Nick Armstrong]

It could have been worse; at least the blurb didn't include "only used once"...

[MrGongGong]

Damn. I could have made that if I had been alerted about it.

Chis Watson this evening

http://lcmf.co.uk

[Bryn]

Chis Watson this evening
http://lcmf.co.uk

Unfortunately I am working from 13:30 to 22:30 this week.

[Daniel]

In more recent years I've grown to dislike it more and more, and I think this is because of the stress levels it can induce in myself and others.

Have you tried Kissin* under the mistletoe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yepl8MG6vRg

I do and don't like Christmas, but always feel a sense of liberation when it's over. Big family gatherings here in varying locations and we have a lot of fun amongst agogic moments à table and the younger generation dancing between separated parents. The idea of games depresses me. The last time I really enjoyed one was when I was about eight I think. But I do my duty, as others seem to like them. The happiest Christmas I ever had was on a beach in the Canary Islands.

*An early present of the awful kind of pun that makes Christmas so stressful ... sorry I'm not being more helpful.

[P. G. Tipps]

Maybe the S. Koreans have come up with a really super idea for those members who are a bit sniffy about all this annual Christmas jollity and who express disapproval of those with whom they are forced to share breathing space in the workplace ... ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34797017

[mangerton]

I read this thread yesterday, but didn't reply then as I was feeling rather errm.... delicate after a most enjoyable Christmas night out on Saturday with colleagues from work. A fine time was had by all, and in answer to some of the comments above, if we didn't like working where we do, and with whom we do, we wouldn't have gone.

Carol service at church next Sunday, followed by lunch with miss m and her partner, and that will pretty much be my festivities over, as they are going away the next day. I am looking forward, as are many of us, to KCC on Christmas Eve, and then church at midnight, and a quiet, reflective Christmas with suitable books and music.