Jamie, with his 1940's RAF moustache actually flew in from Helsinki this evening and was conducting choir practice only a half hour later than usual.
Now that's real dedication.
We are having a "sing off" with another local community choir on the 8th of December. It's a charity event and so it's all good natured
But we want to be the best choir on the night!
Choir practice has gone all a bit Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit
We nailed the Reindeer calling song tonight and battled with Unison in Harmony
Apparantly the number of Christmas cards bought in the Uk has plummeted over the last couple of years and, to me, this fact is disappointing to say the least.
I love the tradition, especially as the ritual and the time spent in writing the card and posting it to a loved one, is an important part of Christmas to me, as is the ritual of opening the cards in the cottage and hanging them around the living room.
And so dear readers I'm setting you another mini competition
Send me an original Christmas card! The most bizarre and different the better
The most original will be picked on Christmas Eve and the winner will get an " original " prize which will be a special and robust donation by me to a charity in their name!
Christmas Eve is only day I have off over Christmas so let's make it fun !
Send you entries to me
Trelawnyd
Flintshire,
North Wales
LL 18 6EF UK
Now that's real dedication.
We are having a "sing off" with another local community choir on the 8th of December. It's a charity event and so it's all good natured
But we want to be the best choir on the night!
Choir practice has gone all a bit Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit
We nailed the Reindeer calling song tonight and battled with Unison in Harmony
Apparantly the number of Christmas cards bought in the Uk has plummeted over the last couple of years and, to me, this fact is disappointing to say the least.
I love the tradition, especially as the ritual and the time spent in writing the card and posting it to a loved one, is an important part of Christmas to me, as is the ritual of opening the cards in the cottage and hanging them around the living room.
And so dear readers I'm setting you another mini competition
Send me an original Christmas card! The most bizarre and different the better
The most original will be picked on Christmas Eve and the winner will get an " original " prize which will be a special and robust donation by me to a charity in their name!
Christmas Eve is only day I have off over Christmas so let's make it fun !
Send you entries to me
John Gray,Bwthyn y Llan , Cwm Road,
Trelawnyd
Flintshire,
North Wales
LL 18 6EF UK
oh this should be good to see!
ReplyDeleteYour postman is going to have a fit !
ReplyDeleteJo
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DeleteHe is a miserable git
DeleteHe's only gonna get worse, unless you tip him generously for Christmas ;-)
DeleteI always send you a card at Christmas John - not sure it will be original as I now only get out locally but it will come, as usual, with my sincere good wishes and love - I agree with you writing and sending cards is a very important part of Christmas to me too. x
ReplyDelete"How environmentally unfriendly" said the Grinch.
ReplyDeleteYou miserable arse! Im giving a donation to charity
DeleteGet in the spirit
DeleteI'm with the Grinch on this one as I hate Christmas, so I'll not be in the running for this one. Instead I'll continue with my own charitable donations AND send you a Christmas Eve electronic message filled with all the jingle I can muster.
DeleteMERRYFUCKINGCHRISTMAS x
Xx that will do
DeleteGirls, girls. GIRRRRRRLSSSSS!!!!!
DeleteJohn, your comment of "you miserable arse" has had me laughing with tears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay! I love your competitions! Will have to put my best crafting skills to work :)
ReplyDeleteYou'll be on my list.
ReplyDeleteNice idea, I like greeting cards at Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think you could stoop this low. I only want cards from people who want to send them. How vulgar.
ReplyDeleteNot vulgar at all....i will enjoy every one and a charity will be better off!!
DeleteI look forward to see yours thomas
ReplyDeleteOne from me when made.
ReplyDeleteGood luck in the upcoming "sing off" -- may your choir win! I must put my thinking cap on about a Christmas card . . . I hope I'm up to the challenge.
ReplyDeleteI will find something out of the ordinary! I love xmas cards sending them is fun, we shall fight the trend.
ReplyDeleteI too love cards...alas, is it yet another dying tradition? I get less and send less every year. I will send you one my dear friend, with love.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing, I had written my Christmas cards this morning, including one for you, and then I read your post!! Consequently it's not very original, bizarre or different, but it's the thought that counts!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, are you planning on baking something nice for the grumpy postman or giving him a tip?
ReplyDeleteHis face will be an absolute hoot once the cards start flocking in!
I'll have a go John x
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ReplyDeleteIt ain't original but it's ready to mail.
ReplyDeleteI sent my parcel on 29th Oct, reached England on 5th November but hasn't reached Wales yet. Is this normal John?
ReplyDeleteAm not sure about unique and/or original, but you'll get a Christmas card from me, too. I also love getting Christmas cards, but sadly, the fact that postage is so costly here, we'll have to send fewer this year.
ReplyDeleteLove the music! Have you ever listened to Mannheim Steamroller's Christmas CDs? They are wonderful!
Hugs!
Hugs!
Dear John,
ReplyDeletePlease will you save the used stamps and give them to charity?
I love Christmas and everything that goes with it!
Thank you John. Lots of love, Maureen x
Of course
DeleteWonderful! Thank you. x
DeleteLike Weaver I always send a Christmas card to you I hope you got last years It had a Scotty pin in it I designed. I have to draw my card this week I am so late !
ReplyDeleteparsnip
Your postman is going to be delighted.......😂
ReplyDeleteSee what I can do. I guess I will have to address the card properly and not to John Gray of Wales.
ReplyDeleteI once had one that said 'Happy Birthday Jesus; you are now 2019 years old'. I can't find it, so this will have to do.
ReplyDeleteEvery year we have a visit from the postman who gives us a calender with pretty pictures , for which we give him a donation and usually a bottle of wine , this seems to keep him happy for the rest of the year lol . We all so get a calendar from the firemen , filled with pictures of firemen looking heroic and we give them a donation as well . All part of living in rural France .
ReplyDeleteGood grief - you will inundated, your postman will moan even more. I'm no good at original so probably wont bother!
ReplyDeleteI love this idea ! I still write my Christmas card list every year, sadly fewer of the oldies around now but more great nieces and nephews, such is life.
ReplyDeleteI will send you a card John, I'm not sure how origional it will be or what that even means but it will be sent with love x
I also love sending and receiving Christmas cards. It's a nice gesture of friendship. Not sure if I could find a bizarre and original one but I'll see what I can do!
ReplyDeleteAmong your many other talents soliciting seems to be one of them. I wouldn't call it vulgar as TS did though he and I are roughly on the same wavelength on this one. Anyway, John, thanks for the (good natured) laugh. You won't stop at anything to make you feel loved and cherished, would you?
ReplyDeleteTalking of which, last night I watched a well known film which was remarkably boring. Until a new character popped up: Your proverbial and most cliched, almost to the point of caricature, gay guy. I thought of you. Alas, and no doubt Moaning Mavis will throw me to the lions, I can't quite see you in that peculiar way some gays display. As someone (gay, from Iceland) once said to me, he too didn't understand why gays have tendency to flounce. There was an American sitcom (name escapes me at the moment) about three friends, one of them was Grace, and one of them (GG - gay guy) illustrates this to the point of hilarity. So, my dear John, a question I have been meaning to ask you and keep forgetting: Do you know how to make the perfect Martini?
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you have constantly insulted me Ursula And do so with a smile
DeleteEvery time .
I think, I don't really need to act about it by deleting you anymore
I simply think that you don't know you are being insulting
I'm sure Ursula knows exactly what's doing. Unkindly insulting you but doing so in a way that ensures her comment is published. Her new mantra for the New Year should be Kindness, sadly lacking now. Why would anyone insult somebody who has just announced they're donating to a charity? They wouldn't, not unless they've got a compelling need to be unkind and abrasive.
DeleteHeidi
DeleteNo worries
I'm not really bothered about anything she has to say
Dear John, sometimes in life - not least in relationships - we need to pause and then, guess what, press the reset button. I can't stress this enough - the reset button. Your always assuming the worst of me will get our exchange nowhere.
DeleteI can say the most reassuring, friendly, encouraging things to you as I have done many a time over the years but, because those words come from me, your mind is closed. Dearest John, people are not one dimensional. So, pleáse (this goes to the Heidies in blog land) don't fashion me into something I am not. And do remember the prarabel of the splinter in the eye.
Some years ago I asked you why you were game fort banter with some of your readers (say, Rachel and Tom) and you told me, in no uncertain terms, that banter is only for "among friends". Leaving aside your rather harsh rebuke it made me remember my early school days. Due to my father's job we moved a lot so I changed school every five minutes. Never had a problem making new connections in a jiffy. Not so here. A number of people in your circle (four to be precise) took offence at my being outspoken, teasing them. Unfortunately, and let's just acknowledge it rather than the four of you putting ALL the blame for relations gone wrong at my doorstep and my doorstep only, however you interpreted what I said largely translated into intense DISlike of me. And that is the sum of it. Dislike of me overruns, tops and topples any reason. You, and some of your readers, are blind to reasoning. So many of you pride yourselves on being "kind". I am sure you are, if selectively. And as long as I don't show up.
Widen your scope. Even people who don't fit a narrow spectrum you should welcome - if only to keep you on your toes.
Anyway, you haven't answered my question about the perfect Martini.
U
" You won't stop at anything to make you feel loved and cherished, would you? "
DeleteBanter? Or rudeness ?
"Banter? Or rudeness?" How about the truth, at least how I see it. There is no shame in your wanting to feel loved and cherished, John.
DeleteFor my sins I'll not only fashion you a Christmas card but a designer Scotch egg or two too. If you feed them to the dogs on your head be it.
Hug,
U
I won't comment again
DeleteUrsula...you have no idea
Ursula,
DeleteI doubt lions would maul, let alone eat rancid old meat so you're safe there. I would however call out a bully every single time. You should have learned from your childhood experiences but it seems that it merely turned you into a ginger cunt.
MERRYFUCKINGCHRISTMAS
No need to shout, Mavis. Moaning will do. Neither am I meat - old or rancid (may I recommend charm school to teach you basic manners) and even then I'd be better hung than you.
DeleteAs to my childhood experiences I think you got the wrong end. Although I was the newcomer I was always welcomed.
"ginger cunt"? How very uncooth for a gay guy (I assume you are) to call a woman a cunt. And a ginger one at that. Maybe I should follow the LGBT example and organise a ginger cunt parade.
Sad, in a way, how gay guys like you give yourselves a bad name. I have known quite a few GGs, three of them close friends. What distinguishes them from you that they are rather refined.
Mwah, and ginger at that,
U
An unbalanced ginger cunt who takes pleasure spending precious time bullying a man who she has never met. Classy.
DeleteShe's not bullying me mave. I really can't be bothered being even irritated by her. She will never understand
DeleteI'm done with reacting from tonight xxx
I have one, I have been waiting for the perfect person to send it to. This should be fun!
ReplyDeleteNice of you to work over Christmas, make some time for you self to relax and enjoy.
I'll be sending you a Christmas card and if I win my charity will be to the retirement fund for your mail carrier. Maybe that way you can stay on good terms with them.
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