Oppressed by all that is Christmas

[Serial_Apologist]

(brother is getting my boxed set of Vaughan Williams symphonies - might listen to them tonight and tomorrow before giving them away).

Oh I'd miss Xmas without my bit of Vaughan Williams. In fact I'd miss every time of year.

[DracoM]

Tonight - given weather here - Sinfonia Antarctica?

[Edgy 2]

Oh I'd miss Xmas without my bit of Vaughan Williams. In fact I'd miss every time of year.

Me too,couldn't live without his music

[cloughie]

Me too,couldn't live without his music

Particularly ‘On Christmas Night’

[french frank]

Tonight - given weather here - Sinfonia Antarctica?

I listened to the Pastoral and Flos Campi and think I shall now wave the box goodbye without a tear. For some time it's been getting increasingly difficult to listen to the mid to late 19th century and the 'mainstream' 20th. Something missing for me

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Oh, and I can think of worse places to be locked down than West Yorkshire!

Really?

[DracoM]

[Bryn]

Tonight - given weather here - Sinfonia Antarctica?

What, the Maxwell Davies 8th?

[oddoneout]

Tonight - given weather here - Sinfonia Antarctica?

Going for Noye's Fludde here. Driest part of the country - hah!

[Leinster Lass]

What, the Maxwell Davies 8th?

I think I can 'c' what you're trying to say!

[Bryn]

I think I can 'c' what you're trying to say!

Spot on.

[Dave2002]

Different countries have synchronising holidays. The US has Thanksgiving, and China has a National Day. We have a few in the UK - but Christmas is the "biggest". Now I find all the hype and build up - often it seems for purely commercial reasons - just too much to take. It's just a day, like any other, after all - IMO. Yes - I do like some aspects of Christmas - but the overblown nature of some of the thoughts and actions around it have finally got to me again this year. Ah well - that's just me perhaps.

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

[DracoM]

[gurnemanz]

Different countries have synchronising holidays. The US has Thanksgiving, and China has a National Day. We have a few in the UK - but Christmas is the "biggest". Now I find all the hype and build up - often it seems for purely commercial reasons - just too much to take. It's just a day, like any other, after all - IMO. Yes - I do like some aspects of Christmas - but the overblown nature of some of the thoughts and actions around it have finally got to me again this year. Ah well - that's just me perhaps.

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

Won't happen this year of course but we usually celebrate New Year (Silvester) with my wife's cousin in Cologne who likes to throw a biggish party. At midnight a huge amount of fireworks go off all over the place. I have been known to organise an Auld Lang Syne at 1 am for British New Year - and Portuguese.

[Petrushka]

Now I find all the hype and build up - often it seems for purely commercial reasons - just too much to take. It's just a day, like any other, after all - IMO. Yes - I do like some aspects of Christmas - but the overblown nature of some of the thoughts and actions around it have finally got to me again this year. Ah well - that's just me perhaps.

You are under no compulsion to take any part in it if you don't want to. As I pointed out earlier, it's much easier on the blood pressure and stress levels if you employ a bit of selectiveness and simply partake of those aspects of Christmas you do enjoy and ignore the rest. Once you strike the right balance for yourself it's surprising how much more pleasure you get out of Christmas.