True happiness doesn’t come from wealth, or status, or fame. It comes from the love we have in our hearts, whatever our religious beliefs.
Happy Christmas!
Mike
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Same to you, Mike! (et al.)
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Yes, Merry Christmas.
Yea, but they’re in the “Nice to Have” list…
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Merry Christmas! I’m enjoying spending it with family in the UK. Hanging out in Bath today before going to a pantomime in a few hours. (Not entirely sure what that is yet, but my brother-in-law says it’s a Xmas tradition)
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Here is a version of “Silent Night” done as a lark in Dorico and Iconica Sections & Players via NP4 NPPE, enough to make Franz Gruber roll over in his grave.
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Merry Christmas!
I can do you one better: I turned Silent Night into a Polka!
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Merry Christmas to you! And if wealth, or status, or fame does come, I’ll be happy all the same!
Paolo
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Hah! Looking forward to hearing what you think of our particularly curious British tradition…
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“Oh, no it isn’t!”
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Merry Christmas!!!
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Best wishes to all! Whatever your holiday traditions are, enjoy them, celebrate with your loved ones, and look forward to a new - and hopefully wonderful - year.
OK, I know: when I write this, Christmas in the Netherlands is almost over, only two and a half hours left (we celebrate it 2 days), and in other countries Christmas is already over, but in any case, I would like to wish everyone a few more good days in 2023 and a peaceful, happy, healthy New Year. To my family and friends I send my wishes with an arrangement for choir and orchestra, that I made these days of a song, that a dear friend of mine made years ago. It’s a hymn. Here is the link.
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Is it still customary in the Netherlands to put wooden shoes outside the door for the Three Kings to fill on 12th-night?
I enjoyed the arrangement, not a hymn I am familiar with.
Thanks for your nice words, Derrek. Concerning the hymn, it has not been published anywhere, we have it just in a songbook that we use in our own congregation.
And concerning the wooden shoes: it’s something I never heard about that. I couldn’t find anything about it in Google either. So to answer your question: as far as I know: no, that is no longer used here.
What I do know is that children put their shoes by the stove with Sinterklaas. They put a carrot in the shoe for Sinterklaas’ horse and then they get presents or something tasty in it. But that’s only a few days before December 5.
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Right back atcha! Merry Christmas!
Yes! Merry Christmas! 