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It's actually a nice gesture and as I say, brightens up someone's front parlour. Though in PL since nobody seems to like their neighbours and micro aggressions are almost a national sport, I'm surprised people don't do what we sometimes do to neighbours we don't like, sending them a particularly naff card or one from the Woolwooth's 1p rack.


Probably biology did that.

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Darling, I see you are experiencing another of your mental bouts about Poland... :):):) Relax. It deteriorates your condition while you need to do your best to improve it.

True though; it's a place where there aren't so much neighbours as people who live too close.

Compared with Yorkshire where people on your street traditionally walk into your house without knocking, it's a breath of fresh air and something I quite like.

Years ago, I was once having it off with the milkman (seriously, it really was the milkman) very noisily on the hall floor. The kitchen door was slighty open. When we'd finished I found a Tupperware box with a Swiss Roll in and some charity raffle tickets on the kitchen table.

It's normal in Ireland. You don't post it though. You drop it in through the letterbox. Very often people drop the card in on Christmas Eve. I think it's lovely :)


I hope this wasn't in your mother's house ;) The Swiss Roll may have been intended as a post-coital snack - just thought of something: a Swiss Roll to follow your 'milkshake' :))

In Poland, this could be considered coercion.

Yes, interesting. I wonder why it didn`t work in Poland. Perhaps Poles and Polesses didn`t need to give their neighbours cards coz they all would meet in the local church or on the way to or back from it anyway. Such a meeting sufficed to wish sb nice Christmas.

That brings back memories. Plus the ubiquitous paper chains. Feeling a bit nostalgic.

The round robins must have bypassed me completely. Never heard of them!


That is my understanding. Most Poles I know would only send a card to people far away and would consider it a pointless exercise to give them to people they see often.

Is it too early for this?

For me there are two records that sum up Christmas:

I enjoyed both of those.
Thanks

I have to hear the Slade song before it truly feels Christmassy.


No, in my own. On that street newly arrived residents were sometimes surprised to get back from work and find their post in a neat pile on the kitchen table. An elderly neighbour (some people used to call her 'the sheet sniffer') had lots of people's keys and used them even after new people moved in.

A strong sense of community.

Was the milkman on his rounds at the time? He delivered more than the milk that day .......... where would we be without a bit of Carry On humour. Btw if it was during his rounds, I hope you reported him afterwards :)


Never too early for good music :) Did you see this btw?

Exactly

Good old Outspan, the Pogues,Spider,Terry the rest, but Lisa stole the show. Shane's funeral...gig of the century.

Of course! Not sure why I didn't include that one. Nice little earner for Slade every year that's for sure.


Actually, no I hadn't but I guessed it was at Shane's funeral when I saw the surroundings. Lovely rendition and tribute:)

Absolutely, Irish culture at its best, giving one of our Bards a true Gaelic send off. When they carried him out of the church shoulder high,to the singing of Mo Ghile Mear. what a beautiful moment.

Fairytale of New York is a great Christmas song and probably my favourite. Another one played a lot this time of year is by Mariah, not a bad song either.

My favorite Christmas song is:



I could have picked a better singer though.

This obscure Christmas song was plagiarised and was subject to a lawsuit. Can you spot the song it was plagiarised from?



Clue: Australia

Sounds a bit like Sunday Morning Coming Down by Kris Kristofferson??

A television theme tune. From a show with a mostly female cast.

I have been thinking of it for a few days coz sth seemed wrong in my concept but I couldn`t realise what exactly. The Irish went to church and met their neighbours etc there like us, yet they also sent cards as Atch claims.

Eventually I found out why cards aren`t so popular here - we had a long break in true Christmas cards availability during communism. They weren`t produced by state enterprises and if some were, they contained the neutral motives of Santa Claus etc.
Before WW2 cards had been very popular.


But the Irish are similar to Poles/Polesses, yet they sent their cards. It must be this communist heritage.

Think uniforms.

Listening to it strangely cheered me up. In small town Turkey now., a bit of a rough place. Raining, a Monday and everything closed.

He used to give me roses..........

Prisoner Cell Block H was compulsive viewing back in the day :)

Always on after the pub. I think I saw every episode. Plus the stage show when it came to Bradford.

Quite a few of the cast were British by birth. Bea Smith, Lizzie Birdsworth and I think the Freak.

Prisoner Cell Block H!! Never liked it. The women were way too rough! I enjoyed Tenko though.


I found a really interesting article about Polish Christmas cards here:

tygodnik.interia.pl/news-historia-zapisana-na-swiatecznych-kartkach,nId,5723898

In small towns and villages people often visited each other in the week before Christmas dropping off a Christmas card and a tin of sweeties or biscuits :) There was usually also a small gift tag which would read 'for all the family' or something like that. These would often be elderly or retired people, many with little money to spare for such gifts.

These were impromptu visits, people just dropping in randomly. Out would come the teapot and the sherry bottle, regardless of what you might have been busy with and all would gather around the kitchen table for an hour or so. It was a lovely, cosy time.

I still have some of the little gift tags and take them out each year and put them near the crib, nice memories of good people who are long gone.

Do you have anything like Wassailing in Ireland

Mostly church groups minus the alcohol here in the U.S.

Why not have the mulled wine or maybe piwo grzane?