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Flickr Christmas: Snow Monsters Come Out To Play

snow monsters come out to play - Advent Flickr: Snow Monsters Come Out To Play, originally uploaded by seawallrunner.

Following on from yesterday’s snow picture, today’s advent calendar picture from the selection at Flickr is this of ‘snow monsters’ taken in the wonderful city of Vancouver. Doesn’t it make you feel of Christmas? I can almost smell the mulled wine. Fancy a glass?

On this day…

2005: Civil Partnership: It’s Not Just Romance

Flickr Christmas: Jamie Enjoys Herself

Jamie Enjoys Herself - Advent Flickr: Jamie Enjoys Herself, originally uploaded by Pink Cloud. Behind Musak’s Christmas Advent picture fest today, this great show of people in the snow.

Now one of the things we are all wishing for is a white Christmas. It’s one of those thoughts that helps make the whole season special. Will it? Won’t it. Really, none of us want snow and does it really matter if it snows on that day? But it’s all part of the magic of the season.

On this day…

2005: Civil Partnership: Locally In Wandsworth
2005: Tribute To Atlantic 252
2003: Gay Dads
2002: Invisible Maps

Flickr Christmas: Advent Is Here

Advent Flickr: "holiday" tree - “holiday” tree, originally uploaded by wcityw.
I admit it. I love Christmas and I have no shame in saying that. I just find myself with a big grin on my face at all the decorations around town. Even those houses that have too many lights on them and appear to be using half of the power from the national grid make me smile. It’s such a shame that I even have to get up and go to work at all. I could wander round looking at all the advent calendars and jolly Santas! There’s no humbug here.

On this day…

2005: Civil Partnership: George Michael To Wed
2003: A New Month
2002: Christmas Comes But Once A Year
2002: Link and Think

Happy Christmas

I am in Javea on Spain’s Costa Blanca for Christmas. It’s very different yet very similar. I have family around me. We had turkey and all the trimmings and opened presents around a (paper) tree. We have plenty of (cheap, Spanish) wine, Christmas pudding and mince pies. The sun, however, is shining and we are able to sit outside and sit in the warmth (if there is a sheltered spot from the wind).

The usual grey skies and frost of a British Christmas Day are part of the experience for me and have been all my life. The sun and the warmth were a little disorienting at first. Now, of course, I realise Christmas is still the same.

Happy Christmas!

On this day…

2004: Season’s Greetings 2005

Christmas Comes But Once A Year

Can you believe it’s December? Is Christmas a joyful time, or not? Over at ‘Tis The Season, the sisters help you through your seasonal worries. I haven’t got an advent calendar yet but I did find a potted history of them here.

On this day…

2005: Civil Partnership: George Michael To Wed
2005: Flickr Christmas: Advent Is Here
2003: A New Month
2002: Link and Think