to be utterly bemused by British obsession with seasonal sleighbells, snow and sleds when we all know it is nowt but grey damp and dank at Christmas on this isle?

[moondog]

oooh where is the article ?

found it

"Now it?s more of a Sunday supplement of mild anxieties over whether kumquats or mango are best in your child?s lunch box. Home Counties rule...?

WTF ?

If anyone wants to know what Celia Johnson et al would have written on mumsnet, they need to check out www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0897330536/starcourse terribly funny, very mumsnet.

I hate snow, tragically for me it is virtually guaranteed where we are living at the moment. We had four xmas' in Bangkok which were fab. We were able to swim in the morning then go for lunch somewhere, come home and either swim again or just get tiddly. Three in Muscat which was virtualy the same but hotter and this will be our third in Switzerland. DD likes living here because she can ski as well as swim.

" Gumbo Tue 17-Nov-09 06:40:43
I grew up in South Africa, and as a child I recall regularly quizzing my parents about how Santa could possibly get into the houses when so few people have fireplaces/chimneys! Although inexplicably I never queried his fyling sleigh/reindeer/ warm red suit in mid-summer..."

I am sorry but that just made me spit tea accross by keyboard

Why is it children worry about the chimney but not the flying sledge?????????