Ian, they celebrate boxing day in Canada I think but not much here in the US.
I do remember a very enjoyable boxing day spent in Perth in 1986.
Well les i have a pretty good sense of humour but you have stumped me. I can't see anything funny
Ian
I just had to post .... what a great belly laugh!
Hoofe116/Les Whitaker
Ditto to everyone, i would like to raise the question of Boxing day which it ios here.
It is the 26 th of December and it is late iin the day here
Boxing day comes from, when people lived in big houses and had many servants andf the rich people would open their gifts on Christmas day and the servants would have to put them all away in boxes from which they came or so i understand it,
I know we celebrate this holiday here in Australia and I think they do in England as well, i actually think it is an English tradition.
But i dont think you North Americans do and i know they do in some parts of Ireland and not in others.
As the sun goes down, the yachts in the Sydney to Hobart race have left Sydney harbour and are all standing out to sea. They are heading for a very cold dark wet rough night.
England and Australia a playing ech other in the 3 rd cricket test match at the Melbourne Cricket grouind and all is well with the world here in South Eastern Asutralia.
Yep i am not at home i'm on my brother in laws compuiter, at a place called Kiama some 1100 km south of where i live.
All the best from Ian
Have a Texas Christmas and a Texas New Year!!!
Don't drink and derail the trains!!!
Only you Phil...only you. Just too funny. Shall we call you the railway poet??? MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Sinkarsin family eh! .....and to all a good night eh. Later eh...Brian.
Have fun with your trains
Xmas poem written by Phil Creer,
Dec 22nd, 2006
T’was the night before Xmas, and me & the missus,
Was watchin’ the telly ‘cos we’d finished the dishes,
The kids was all out, up the pub or the flicks,
Except for our Jim who was still in the nick.
I poured out a glass of a good Guinness Stout,
When a hell of a noise made the old missus shout!
“Some ***’s out back & he’s into the shed!”
So I ran out the door to kill the swine dead!
But what to my wonderin’ eye should appear?
A Heineken truck had just crashes with its beer!
The cases & bottles lay all in a clutter,
So while the poor sod in the truck did his nutter,
I helped meself quick to a bottle or fifty
And I shoved ‘em behind the door of the privy.
“You OK, mate?” I shouted, shoving bottles down trews,
“I’d be right there to help, but I can’t find me shoes!”
He must have been pious, ‘cos I heard him exclaim,
And I know he quite often used the Lord’s Name,
As he told all the world how he’d missed the last curve,
And he lost all his load when he’d needed to swerve
Well, the coppers come round & they took down his name
And they told me to make an insurance claim,
So I picked up more bottles, as I reckoned me right,
And went back inside to have a Good Night!
Feliz Navidad, Gut Jul, Bon Natale, Bon Noel
No matter How you say it!
Merry Christmas to all
Bill
Alan, Oliver & North Fork Railroad
https://www.buckfast.org.uk/
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. Lewis Carroll English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)
Hi Kim
Afraid not my stocking is going to sound like a Welsh Building site hope the station Choir is thrown in as well
To all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
regards John
Have a good one everyone, may your Christmas stockings go 'chuff chuff chuff', or something similar!
Kim
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
Merry Christmaramadonhaanakaquanza!
Oh what the heck , I'll make it simple...Happy Festivus!
Christmas Cheer...Vic style...
Santa says "Yo, you talking to me?"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-HKAt-FokgSanta meets the LAPD...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4DSCtez88gMy kind of Christmas fun....Yes, I'm twisted, ...tell me something I dont know
Thanks, and may everyone on the forum have a happy non-sectarian holiday of your choosing!!!
The Dixie D Short Line "Lux Lucet In Tenebris Nihil Igitur Mors Est Ad Nos 2001"
Age is only a state of mind, keep the mind active and enjoy life
May I wish the same to you and all the members of this forum.
Peace , health and prosperity to all.
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
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