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Does anyone know why we hang up a stocking at Christmas?
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Duh! To put the presents in...
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So father Christmas can fill them up with lots of lovely pressies of course. Silly bren, lolGardening ..... begins with daybreak
and ends with backache
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Traditionally it was a shoe or slipper. St Nicholas was a bishop if my memory hasn't completely done a runner, and heard 3 young girls talking about the fact that were so destitute that they might, to use the modern parlance, have to go 'on the game' to stay alive. He passed by their cottage and threw some money down the chimney as an anonymous gift and it landed in their shoes by the fireside, saving them from a fate worse than death (taxes?)
So we hang up shoes or stockings by the fireside to collect any gift thrown there by a passing generous bishop. Or Santa.Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Can't really hang it down can we Bren?
Granny on the Game in SheffieldComment
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cos Santa's a perv
aka
SuzieComment
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Like that Pisk
Granny on the Game in SheffieldComment
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unless it's a support stocking.........Originally posted by Florence Fennel View PostCan't really hang it down can we Bren?
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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Or maybe hold ups? I've never got on with those, they turn into "marry-me-quick" like the old fashioned thick wrinkly ones modelled by Nora Batty.Granny on the Game in SheffieldComment
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And here's me thinking Bren wanted a serious answer!
Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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'tis the silly season FlumOriginally posted by Flummery View PostAnd here's me thinking Bren wanted a serious answer!
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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I thought generous bishops was silly enough!
Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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I think she did Flum and a very good one yours was. I think we're just in the Silly Season as Bins put it.Originally posted by Flummery View PostAnd here's me thinking Bren wanted a serious answer!
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When i were a lad we hung a pillowcase up at the bottom of the bed and lain awake until santa, who by this time had enjoyed millions of brandy laced mince pies and what must have been gallons of sherry, came upstairs burping and swearing to fill em with goodies.. he dint half sound like our old fella did santa.
Roger..
Anyone who wants to read some of my humourous Xmas poems send me a PM with your email addy and i will oblige.
Here is a free sample:
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Santa’s Dilemma,
C2010 By
Roger Turner
Old Santa is in a dilemma,
And he don’t know what to do,
For he’s found a sack full of presents,
From nineteen-sixty-two.
He was cleaning out an old barn,
That hadn’t been used ages,
So he could turn it into a holiday let,
To supplement his wages.Comment
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and so I did Flum. This lot "what are they like"Originally posted by Flummery View PostAnd here's me thinking Bren wanted a serious answer!
Let's just ignore them. Kids today take everything for granted without giving a tinkers cuss as to where or what it came from.Comment
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