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Tag Archives: Christmas
1minion invites god in – making room for god’s love
It’s less work to blog off a book than spend hours browsing news sites for something relevant, so you’re still stuck with pages from this devotional for a while. This is page 36. (Cast off on Jan 4th, though, so … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, family, Inviting God In
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Morality Movie Monday – A Christmas Story
This was never a classic piece of Christmas entertainment while I was growing up; I was nine in 1983 when this movie came out, but my local channels relied on Alastair Sim, Jimmy Stewart, Boris Karloff and whoever starred in … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Morality Movie Monday, movies, presents, toys
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Forgot Sounds of Sunday so here’s Music of Monday
I’m in a Facebook group that’s centered on Terry Pratchett (GNU!). They’re mostly Great Britainish in the group, I’d say, with Europeans, Aussies, Americans and Canucks for extra flavour. Today I kept seeing comments regarding #whamageddon and a game they … Continue reading
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Star of Bethlehem “found”
It’s the Christmas season again so again stories pop up to explain the nativity story with a hope of sounding scientific and also justified to keep Christ in Christmas. This one I get from Charisma News: In the spring of … Continue reading
Nobody needs to save Christmas, least of all Kirk Cameron
My movie group talked over the whole of the film Saving Christmas today. Produced and directed and starring Darren Doane and a fair chuck of his and Cameron’s relatives, what we did pay attention to was a ham-handed, heavy-handed attempt … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, jesus, movies, war on Christmas
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I’ve agreed to two different “Secret Santa” draws
One is via a Facebook group called We Ate’nt Dead that’s for fans of everything Terry Pratchett related and not actually anonymous; I have to mail something to a gal in Belfast, Irelend for that one. No idea who’s sending … Continue reading
Quickie story no. 2
Using the cubes again like I did the last time, but only 4 dice. Here goes: The cookies were served on a heart shaped plate, Grandma Charlie’s classic mix of muskrat houses, hermit cookies and ginger snaps. Nine year old … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, creative writing, just for fun, snow, winter
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Early morning Christmas greetings!
Quick hiya from Dial-up Land. Hope the day brings lots of joy and useful gifts, not a bunch of crap you have to lie about when you say how much you appreciate them. Quick memory: I never could sleep worth … Continue reading
I’ll be home for Christmas
And since Christmas is in Dial-up Land, posting will be on hiatus again. At least it’s for a better reason than an injury. Have some Johnny Mathis to tide you over until Tuesday. Drive safe this weekend everyone, and hope … Continue reading
Bad wrist, good video
One of my seasonal favourites.