Archive for December, 2011
Filed under Books
The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
I have just finished reading this charming book. For a few years after it came out, I read it each December as an advent calendar (it has 24 chapters). That lapsed in the last few years because things were a little hectic and December always runs away with me, but this year I made [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 24th 2011
Filed under Holidays, York 2011
100 Photos 92 :: Discovering and Learning
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Filed under This & That
PhotoHunt – Surprise
A few days ago I was sitting working on my laptop downstairs with half an eye on a film. I logged on to Skype because I needed to make arrangements with a friend about meeting for lunch this week.
Just after I logged on to Skype, I heard an unusual pshtt noise which sounded rather [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 23rd 2011
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Oh Christmas Tree
A Tannenbaum is a fir tree (die Tanne) or Christmas tree (der Weihnachtsbaum). Although most Christmas trees today are Fichten (spruce) rather than Tannen, the qualities of the evergreen have inspired musicians to write several “Tannenbaum” songs in German over the years. The best known version (above) was penned in 1824 by [...]
9 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2011
Filed under Out & About
100 Photos 90 :: Shropshire
In amongst my Christmas posts I will be completing my ‘100 Reasons to be Glad’ series of posts (a year late), so that I can start my new ‘100 photos’ project in the New Year.
The post count will however go to 102 because I inadvertently duplicated two themes along the way…
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