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Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 23 Dec 2017, 11:35
by Rob Houghton
pete9012S wrote:Could that be where you developed a liking for the stage, theatre and acting Rob?
Probably! Our school also did a May Festival every year with a May Queen, attendants etc - I was a Maypole dancer - and also we did end of school concerts and plays. Every summer, each school year in the juniors did a school play - including 'The Little Green Imp' by Enid Blyton, where I was a duck, lol!!
I still remember one of my lines - "But he'll be back!'
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 23 Dec 2017, 12:41
by Wolfgang
Rob Houghton wrote:I've never thought of an angel as male either funnily enough. I guess maybe they 'should be' according to the bible (which after all was rewritten in very patriarchal times!) - but in our school nativity play when I was a small child, the angels were ALWAYS played by girls. There were about ten of them in our nativity, and they always stood around the front and sides of the stage with their arms folded across their chests!
Is it possible that the girls had to play these roles because all other roles had to be played by boys?
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 23 Dec 2017, 14:19
by pete9012S
Tis the season to to adopt a vastly healthier diet and take more exercise in the new year..
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Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 23 Dec 2017, 14:57
by IceMaiden
Rob Houghton wrote:I've never thought of an angel as male either funnily enough. I guess maybe they 'should be' according to the bible (which after all was rewritten in very patriarchal times!) - but in our school nativity play when I was a small child, the angels were ALWAYS played by girls. There were about ten of them in our nativity, and they always stood around the front and sides of the stage with their arms folded across their chests!
Our nativity was great, I think I've said before - brilliant costumes which were used every year, and the three 'kings' were colour-coded - the blue and silver king, the red and silver king, and the gold and silver king. Each king had two male attendants in short red tunics with a sequin motif on the front (I was one of them) and also four 'harem girls' who danced behind, wearing crop tops with long baggy sleeves made of net and pantaloons, as well as a face veil.
The star-bearer was also always a girl. She carried a long golden pole with a big star fixed to the top.
Yes the role of the angels were always girls in our plays too. It was a role everyone wanted because the costume was so easy - a white dress, tinsel halo fixed on a hair band and card wings - and not much speaking was required but you were still in front of the action for proud mum and dad in the audience. I always wanted to play an angel but never got to as others always beat me to it
.
The closest I got was the role of a doll one year in a setting of a toy shop. I was supposed to twirl across the stage in one direction while a boy playing a teddy bear walked in the other waving, but by the time I'd done one full spin he'd already gone across so my ballerina twirl was turned into a dolly skippety dance instead
. Happy, happy days, I was so shy as a child but I loved every part of the Christmas play and it was what I missed most about leaving primary school.
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 23 Dec 2017, 16:29
by Courtenay
Or how about this story from a rather uniquely named town in America...
Life inside a town called Santa Claus
(and yes, they take it seriously
)
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 25 Dec 2017, 09:16
by Darrell71
Sounds like my kinda town.
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 12:48
by floragord
The summer visitors and the swallows are still here, and I've just received my first gift catalogue from Museum Selection - no excuses for not shopping early for Christmas
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 16:27
by Courtenay
Haven't seen any Christmas goods yet, but I saw some Halloween-themed things in Sainsbury's yesterday already...
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 21:10
by pete9012S
Back on topic, this was posted on youtube on
27th Aug 2019!
(It's not had many views, but that may change as we get nearer to Xmas, say around October!!!)
Merry Christmas 2020 - Top Christmas Songs Playlist 2020
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Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 21:46
by burlingtonbertram
A colleague picked up all of her presents at Argos, two weeks ago.
I told this - incredulous - this to a friend and he admitted that he has bought most of his too.
Can't be long before our Co-op puts its mincepies out.
The world has gone mad.
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 07 Sep 2019, 23:52
by floragord
I got Christmas cards online in Clinton's sale - on Christmas Eve 2018!! , and picked up some heavenly German glass candle burners, beautifully boxed to give as gifts, in January, but that's as far as I've got... I'm full of admiration for people who have all their shopping done and wrapped by July 
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 10 Sep 2019, 18:57
by IceMaiden
Home Bargains in Pwllheli was putting selection boxes out last week!! I do wish the shops would stop doing this or being allowed to, the year goes by quick enough as it is without them pushing it on even faster. Plus it cheapens events like Christmas and Easter, it makes them come across as little more than a quick money spinner for the shops.
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 10 Sep 2019, 19:29
by Courtenay
I haven't seen them in supermarkets yet, but I saw Christmas decorations at a National Trust garden's shop yesterday.
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 10 Sep 2019, 20:09
by burlingtonbertram
IceMaiden wrote:Home Bargains in Pwllheli was putting selection boxes out last week!!.
"Erm Barginz" as it is known ("nern") in Hull.
The council in Louth, Lincolnshire, are spending £7,500 on an artificial tree for their town, according to the local news prog.
Re: Gets earlier every year?
Posted: 13 Sep 2019, 23:57
by IceMaiden
That's a ridiculous amount of money to spend on an artificial tree, why not get a real one for a fraction of the cost?