Definitive christmas song?

my personal fave has to be Chris Rea...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THcbQyFtCqg]YouTube- Chris Rea : Driving Home For Christmas[/ame]

Yves Adele Harlow;5973 wrote: OMG I love it! Thank you so much! I so wish I knew about this when I put the christmas decorations up instead of just trying to find xmas songs on you tube! :lol: I'm so gonna listen to this all the time now! :woohoo: :merryxmas:

Just thought you might like to know how I found that site. I use
http://stumbleupon.com
Now thats a nice Chrissy Pres for you.

:gottree::xmastree::dancingmisss::treelights:

Yves Adele Harlow;5973 wrote: Lol I must admit I stayed in New York around christmas and our hotel was right near the NYPD and I couldn't get a minute's sleep due to the sirens going off all night! :doh:

Ahhyou go to midnight mass as well! Then how come you don't like chrimbo? :humbug:

rly?! i went a few years ago with college it snowed when we were ontop of the empire state building was werid and yet amazing... and we went to see the nicks, and theyy flashed up "the new york nicks welcomes bede college all the way from england!" only like 200 people went to our college and we had all madison square gardens cheering us!!

and i love CHRISTmas.... emphasis on christ... i hate having to put up with cheezy songs everywhere i go, huge rushes and ques everywhere, not being able to drive through middlesbrough because the crazed shoppers are clogging 10 postcoads, the horrible commercialism... the fact that evan 5 year olds don't believe in santa and throw paddys if they dont get £500 spent on them for the latest playstation and games... and that more people can now name 12 premiership footballers than the 12 apostles

rant over lol

Eagle;5983 wrote: Just thought you might like to know how I found that site. I use
http://stumbleupon.com
Now thats a nice Chrissy Pres for you.

:gottree::xmastree::dancingmisss::treelights:

:dancingmisss: Awesome!!! :thanks:

Adam-MGTF;6062 wrote: rly?! i went a few years ago with college it snowed when we were ontop of the empire state building was werid and yet amazing... and we went to see the nicks, and theyy flashed up "the new york nicks welcomes bede college all the way from england!" only like 200 people went to our college and we had all madison square gardens cheering us!!

and i love CHRISTmas.... emphasis on christ... i hate having to put up with cheezy songs everywhere i go, huge rushes and ques everywhere, not being able to drive through middlesbrough because the crazed shoppers are clogging 10 postcoads, the horrible commercialism... the fact that evan 5 year olds don't believe in santa and throw paddys if they dont get £500 spent on them for the latest playstation and games... and that more people can now name 12 premiership footballers than the 12 apostles

rant over lol

:tumbleweed: Bloody hell that was quite a rant... :respect:

Ok firstly OMG I am so jealous that is snowed when you were on top of the empire state building! :jealous: :lol:

Secondly, I don't see why you can't have both. :dunno: The whole point of Christmas is to celebrate Christ's birth. You can do that by going to midnight mass, having parties, meeting family and giving gifts (like the 3 wise men). I love the cheesy songs and am definitely a crazy shopper but I also go to mass as the point is not to be all somber and hide yourself away from everyone and everything - the point is to get out there and celebrate - cheesy songs and all! :xmasparty:

My 5 year old still firmly believes in Santa, one of his favourite stories is the "The Elf and the Toymaker" (the modern version) Anyway, the other day while shopping we noticed the obligatory Santa, Jamie immediately rushed up to him for a chat. The conversation went something like this;

Hello Santa how are you and how is Alfie?
HO HO HO, Alfie who?
You know Santa, one of your elves
Oh I have so many elves sometimes I forget some of them.
But you can't forget Alfie, he runs your toy maker.
Oh THAT Alfie, he is good thank you.

The Moral of this is; Santa really does have to think on his feet.....lol

On the traditional side of Christmas, while I am not a "believer" I do respect those who are, and in the interests of getting him a better education than is available in the local state school system I have sent Jamie to a Local Christian school where they are still allowed to teach religion, so he can become informed and make up his own mind about faith when he is ready. As part of this he appeared as one of the wise men in the School Nativity and has therefore spent the past 5 weeks wandering around singing carols at the top of his lungs.

He even went through his Toy Box and picked out toys to donate to the giving tree, saying he wanted to give them to little girls and boys who's mummies and Daddies couldn't afford to rent Santa. I have no idea where renting Santa came from but who said Christmas isn't still alive and well in the young.

Craig

Bacchus;6074 wrote: My 5 year old still firmly believes in Santa, one of his favourite stories is the "The Elf and the Toymaker" (the modern version) Anyway, the other day while shopping we noticed the obligatory Santa, Jamie immediately rushed up to him for a chat. The conversation went something like this;

Hello Santa how are you and how is Alfie?
HO HO HO, Alfie who?
You know Santa, one of your elves
Oh I have so many elves sometimes I forget some of them.
But you can't forget Alfie, he runs your toy maker.
Oh THAT Alfie, he is good thank you.

The Moral of this is; Santa really does have to think on his feet.....lol

On the traditional side of Christmas, while I am not a "believer" I do respect those who are, and in the interests of getting him a better education than is available in the local state school system I have sent Jamie to a Local Christian school where they are still allowed to teach religion, so he can become informed and make up his own mind about faith when he is ready. As part of this he appeared as one of the wise men in the School Nativity and has therefore spent the past 5 weeks wandering around singing carols at the top of his lungs.

He even went through his Toy Box and picked out toys to donate to the giving tree, saying he wanted to give them to little girls and boys who's mummies and Daddies couldn't afford to rent Santa. I have no idea where renting Santa came from but who said Christmas isn't still alive and well in the young.

Craig

Aww your son sounds sooo adorable! I remember we used to make boxes with old or unwanted toys in to give to less fortunate children. I think it's a great idea as it teaches us responsibility and charity from a young age. We are fortunate in our situation and therefore it is up to us to help those who aren't. :grouphug:

Bacchus;6074 wrote: My 5 year old still firmly believes in Santa, one of his favourite stories is the "The Elf and the Toymaker" (the modern version) Anyway, the other day while shopping we noticed the obligatory Santa, Jamie immediately rushed up to him for a chat. The conversation went something like this;

Hello Santa how are you and how is Alfie?
HO HO HO, Alfie who?
You know Santa, one of your elves
Oh I have so many elves sometimes I forget some of them.
But you can't forget Alfie, he runs your toy maker.
Oh THAT Alfie, he is good thank you.

The Moral of this is; Santa really does have to think on his feet.....lol

On the traditional side of Christmas, while I am not a "believer" I do respect those who are, and in the interests of getting him a better education than is available in the local state school system I have sent Jamie to a Local Christian school where they are still allowed to teach religion, so he can become informed and make up his own mind about faith when he is ready. As part of this he appeared as one of the wise men in the School Nativity and has therefore spent the past 5 weeks wandering around singing carols at the top of his lungs.

He even went through his Toy Box and picked out toys to donate to the giving tree, saying he wanted to give them to little girls and boys who's mummies and Daddies couldn't afford to rent Santa. I have no idea where renting Santa came from but who said Christmas isn't still alive and well in the young.

Craig

thanks craig your little lad seems more like what chil;dren should be like! it makes a nice change to some of the horrible spoilt brats we see at work i think thats more where my bah-humbugness comes from that i work every chirstmas, and being in the pub trade tend to see the worse of people around this time of year not the best

oh and i hate shopping all year so i guess that was a general rant


and the empire state was awesome in the snow, i have a picture of me on it with sideways snow lol... sadly couldn't see much of the city!

Adam-MGTF;6099 wrote: thanks craig your little lad seems more like what chil;dren should be like! it makes a nice change to some of the horrible spoilt brats we see at work i think thats more where my bah-humbugness comes from that i work every chirstmas, and being in the pub trade tend to see the worse of people around this time of year not the best

oh and i hate shopping all year so i guess that was a general rant


and the empire state was awesome in the snow, i have a picture of me on it with sideways snow lol... sadly couldn't see much of the city!

Oooh pic please! :woo:

Agreed working in an off-licence you did see society for all its failings! However I just thanked my lucky stars I was nothing like them!

Does the Empire State Building still have any marks on it from where King Kong climbed up it? :dunno:

a few of the local radio ststions run a toys for kids in liverpool. you buy a pressie drop it off at the station/shop and they pass them on to the less fortunate
radio city
juice fm
radio merseyside
greg the bakers
jjb sports
are the ones i know of

This has to be the modern definitive christmas song, sums up modern society and children in general.

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEe55NxFSSU]YouTube- Kevin Bloody Wilson Hey Santa Claus[/ame]

Merry Christmas.

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