christmas and hogfather

[matthereaper]

hi every 1 does any body re read hogfather every christmas and get excited about Xmas and does any one watch the hogfather movie every year at Xmas and get a warm feeling inside your tummy when you hear the tune to the hogfather And is any1 excited about Xmas already because of this?

 

[Tonyblack]

Nah!

It's not one of my favourites, I have to say.

 

[DaveC]

hi every 1 does any body re read hogfather every christmas and get excited about Xmas and does any one watch the hogfather movie every year at Xmas and get a warm feeling inside your tummy when you hear the tune to the hogfather And is any1 excited about Xmas already because of this?

Sorry seen the movie yet and only read the book for the first time in june... maybe in a few years it will become a ritual...since 2002 my Christmas ritual has been to watch all my extended Lord of the Ringgs DVDs around the beginning-middle of December.

 

[Dotsie]

I quite often reread Hogfather at christmas, but I didn't like the tv adaptation. I will be watching The Santa Clause, It's a Wonderful Life, and Scrooged though!

 

[michelanCello]

hi every 1 does any body re read hogfather every christmas and get excited about Xmas and does any one watch the hogfather movie every year at Xmas and get a warm feeling inside your tummy when you hear the tune to the hogfather And is any1 excited about Xmas already because of this?

I do! I'm in a chrismas mood since Tony posted the Hogfather threed. I'm singing awfully popular christmas songs all day and just can't help it...

 

[Penfold]

I've already brought eaten mince pies that are on sale in the local supermarket. Christmas seems to arrive earlier and earlier each year!

 

[Tonyblack]

I got some German gingerbread hearts full of apricot jam and covered with dark chocolate from Lidl this morning. I'm taking them to Tucson for Chistmas.

I've taken christmas crackers and christmas pudding before now as they don't have them in the US.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I've already brought eaten mince pies that are on sale in the local supermarket. Christmas seems to arrive earlier and earlier each year!

Supermarkets just want to screw you for as much as they can get over the 3½ months till chripmas.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Christmas starts for me in early December when I get the Santa suit down from the loft ready for the annual street collection for my Lions Club. By mid December when I have been very cold and wet for 9 nights in a row the magic is going.

I still cannot imagine not doing it though..

 

[Dotsie]

I've taken christmas crackers and christmas pudding before now as they don't have them in the US.

What?!!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

CRACKERS Dotsie

 

[Beautiful Dirt]

My favourite christmas films are It's A Wonderful Life and A Muppets Christmas Carol

 

[michelanCello]

Favorite Christmas movie? Got to be Love Actually...

 

[Dotsie]

Gorgeous film

 

[pip]

Best Christmas Film - Die Hard
Worst Christmas Film - Die Harder

 

[Finomans]

I've taken christmas crackers and christmas pudding before now as they don't have them in the US.

We don't have christmas crackers in the Netherlands either

But my dad's going to the Fortean times convention in October and that's in London so possibly...

 

[DaveC]

Best Christmas Film - Die Hard
Worst Christmas Film - Die Harder

Die Hard 2 is underrated - Mine are Die Hard, Gremlins and The Nightmare Before Christmas + LOTR that I already mentioned.

 

[michelanCello]

Best Christmas Film - Die Hard
Worst Christmas Film - Die Harder

Die Hard 2 is underrated - Mine are Die Hard, Gremlins and The Nightmare Before Christmas + LOTR that I already mentioned.

LOTR as a christmas movie?????

 

[Finomans]

Best Christmas Film - Die Hard
Worst Christmas Film - Die Harder

Die Hard 2 is underrated - Mine are Die Hard, Gremlins and The Nightmare Before Christmas + LOTR that I already mentioned.

LOTR as a christmas movie?????

They show it almost every year on christmas in the Netherlands.

 

[Tonyblack]

I've taken christmas crackers and christmas pudding before now as they don't have them in the US.

We don't have christmas crackers in the Netherlands either

But my dad's going to the Fortean times convention in October and that's in London so possibly...

I had a Dutch and a Finnish friend over a few years ago and we shared a cottage in Wincanton. I took a box of crackers with me.

Edit to add - I love the way the Dutch start their celebrations with the arrival of Sinterklass in November and then exchanges of gifts early in December (including huge chcoolate letters). I was in Maastricht one year when it all started.

The Dutch party at the drop of a hat.