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| saucyone |
Posted - 11/21/2014 : 14:34:36
Many people are traveling to be with families and relatives in the next week. Just want to wish each and everyone a safe holiday and a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving with their family and friends. |
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| farah111 |
Posted - 11/28/2014 : 12:12:52
It's the Name of the state "Lower Saxony".....there is another state, it's name is "saxony"...maybe we can compare it with Wessex and Sussex....on your little Island...*ggg* |
| toast |
Posted - 11/26/2014 : 15:13:31
Yes! yes elves -are- more natively-traditional to Iceland! my mistake *ahem* and (I think its leprechaun's that are native to Ireland), but maybe there's others we don't know about! Like the pixies from Cornwall, or -piskies- as the native Cornish call them.
oOo isn't that sooo -typical- that -you- live close to where there's market gems! I'm double jelly now =P
Just the name of the place "Saxony" -sounds- really chocolate-box! Where everything looks like a picture. Traditional little cottages/houses, with beautiful courtyards and grounds inbetween each lane, hidden cafes with fresh crepes and pastries....Further down the lanes, inviting warm wooden benches, with refreshing beer on tap and smoked pork roasting over hot coals,....
I'm already there, without leaving my seat =] *wishes* If I'm lucky enough to visit your wonderland, I'd be excited and glad to greet you with a big grin, we can gander together =] Small and beautiful is -good-, less overwhelming equals more enjoyment =D |
| farah111 |
Posted - 11/26/2014 : 13:10:54
Aren't the elves and the gnomes and stufflike more traditional in iceland and ireland? *wonders*
To go back to the thanksgiving-thing. Here in germany there are only those ceremonies in the churches to thank god for a good harvest....children bringing food as a donation...yes, I know that as a part of those traditions, too. In the bigger cities like Brunswick where I live...there is nothing. Everything here is prepared for christmas....and THAT is really more about the gadgets...like you said.
Ah, by the way my dear toast....here in Brunswick we have one of the famoust christmas markets in lower saxony. It really is worth visiting. It is small but very beautyfull. So, if you ever feel like joining the british christmas-hopper tradition....my door will be open for you. But! I have to work most of the time. But you can share my convenient couch with my cat (no, she is not a new one) and visit the christmas market every day and drink as much 'gl?hwein' as you can *lol* |
| toast |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 21:12:08
Or is it because there's more snow? or perhaps its the elves in the woods? *ponders* |
| toast |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 17:08:45
This is where I feel slightly awkward, because of my own ignorance perhaps.
I genuinely don't know of anyone -personally- who celebrates Thanks-Giving here in the UK. I know there are ceremonies held in church for the -Harvest-, lots of primary children attend with food for charities etc, as well as celebrate their thanks to god.
But, I can honestly say, the actual -holiday- of Thanks-Giving, isn't generally recognised in the UK, as a UK tradition, which is why there are no holidays for it. (as you mentioned).
There are no Thanks-Giving cards on sale in the general shops, or similar (although they -can- be bought). Sadly the majority of Brits, all work up-to and over the Christmas season. Other than the obvious types of work, such as Teachers etc.
Its a bit of a let down here really. Because people LOVE Christmas (not all but most) yet we don't get decent -time- to enjoy it properly!
Everything is geared up to the actual -day- here (the 25th), because most people work on the 24th. THEN, if most are lucky, they get boxing day off (the 26th), so they can celebrate the last of it, seeing family etc, THEN its back to work =|.....Its all over so fast! Never enough time to -really- appreciate the entirety of Christmas time.
But here, holidays are mostly about the Queen, *rolls eyes* rather than more important things! Such as eating all the gorgeous -Harvest- and CAKE on offer, AS WELL AS, spending time opening presents AND then getting to know how to use those presents (hoping that they're all electrical obviously) Gadgets Gadgets! =]
Oh, and of course, giving Thanks to the mighty above *holds up halo*
Although...It's never stopped me from getting silly-excited, over the entire season =D
We -Do- have a new tradition over here in the UK, not new in -time- terms, but new in terms of how people here shop for Christmas. They all fly over to GERMANY! lolol, Seriously!
The Brits LOVE the German Markets! They go crazy for them, its become a big thing now, for groups of girls (and men) to go to Germany for all the beautiful handmade gifts, as well as, the food festivals and beer tents lol.
Plus its said to be -More- Christmassy in Germany! I've never been personally, but I know many others who have, and they keep returning again year after year, so there must be -something- about the place, the people and the spirit! =]
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| farah111 |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 15:56:53
No, I think the christian traditions are worldwide the same.... only a little bit smaller on this side of the atlantic, I guess :-) |
| saucyone |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 15:13:31
Yes,I realize it is here in the states....forgive my ignorance ,just thought your country might have a different tradition. |
| farah111 |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 15:04:24
Because it is and has always been a part of the christian tradition...it is also celebrated in churches in your country....a religious holiday |
| saucyone |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 14:57:33
Why is it celebrated in churches? |
| farah111 |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 14:49:51
Toast, I bet you have thanksgiving in England. Might not be such a great thing as in the States.... and there are no holidays for it...but it is a day to be celerated in the churches....even here in Germany...we call it 'Erntedank'.....but its the same |
| toast |
Posted - 11/22/2014 : 14:50:38
lol, what a brilliant picture!
We don't have Thanks-Giving here, but I also wish one and all who -do-, to have a fabulous and fun-filled time =] |
| chippy |
Posted - 11/21/2014 : 18:45:40
I can't say it any better than what saucyone said.. so what SHE said.. lol
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