"Santa" is an Americanism - in the UK its "Father Christmas" isnt it?

[janmoomoo]

Or am I being pedantic?

dont know what delph is?edibile?press to me means cupboard.but i could murder a piece if you are makin that is

You've lost me now, guys, although I do know eedjit is spelled eedjit

You're all a bunch of fanny merchants!

tis eejit. (skips off to avoca to sip lattes while pondering santy list and reading Irish Times).

LOL fanny merchants aye that mebbe true.big ole eejit aye sure am

Watsthestory, I'll give ye a pinta milk for de babby

I'm only joshin relax de head mrs!

Xenia thinks I'm scum because I call my Mother 'mum' not 'mummy'!

ElliePhant, next time I'm in Avoca, I'm going to stand on a table and say "excuse me blonde ladies, if there's anybody here who pronounces Santa 'Santy' could you please leave immediately. There is a table waiting for you in Graham O'sullivan's on Bray Main Street".

Well, as we have some Dutch relatives, I had to explain to dc that FC/Santa is a cousin or something like that of Saint Nicolas

Although I know him as Father Christmas, I prefer Santy to Santa. The 'a' at the end of Santa sounds weird and artifical to me, but Santy sounds jolly. A -y ending is what you'd expect in English.

Okay, vesely.

Snowballs is that a chocolate kimberely? Geansai I am not blond. Does that mean I am exempt from transportation to social siberia.

Not a Tunnocks Snowball then?

Am finding it harder & harder to follow this thread, lassies

Absolutely chocolate. I ate enough of the plain ones to sink a battleship when I was a kid. I have enough money to go posh now! I have just come back with a tin of mikados, three tins of chocolate kimberleys and a tin of Irish liquer flavour choc kimberleys (the jury is still out...). Plus Caramello bars and 40,000 funsize Moros. I'm sorted for Christmas now

Elliephant, no that's fine, it'll be nice that there's one other non-blonde who in the vicinity. I just look like I can't afford highlights!

Do you like tHose chocolate kimberleys? They are very odd. The texture is too soft for biscuit, too rubbery for cake. Even coated in chocolate, they don't tempt me#1

Snowballs, have you got your Colleen sweets yet?!?! Every year my dad buys some and we all yell 'cheapskate'.

Colleen's yummmm...they' re the best...aren't they? Thats what we were told anyway...

So nothing to do with Wayne Rooney's lass then?

Thanks geansai saved from siberia but I will still whisper santy whenever I breach the hallowed halls of Avoca. (subversive smiley)

LOL at the colleen sweets. My stingy auntie used to always give us a tin of those USA biscuits - still view them with snobby disdain. Now if it had been a tin of choco kimberlies...

ooooh you are radical!

Now you know I'm no snob! Admitting to a childhood that included colleen sweets. I think the dog ate a tin of colleen sweets every year.

Oh what I would give for one of those big boxes of packs of tayto...
Lol...was it just me or did everyone call crisps in general 'taytos'?

She was named after the crappy cheap sweets I presume!!! Nobdoy really Irish would call their child Colleen. Makes me think of toffee with fibre in it. Like some ludicrous plan somebody came up with to combine toffee with something healthy. Bizarre.

King crisps are the same as Tayto. Really, really, really, breathstinkingly cheesey you know the power of your breath would fell a tree for several hours afterwards. I love them, but I always bump in to somebody I know whenever I've sneakily indulged. Feel a scally eating crisps now I'm an adult. I have to put them into a bowl.

Here in the North East (of England) it's Santa, with diminutive Santy used when talking to children. Same as Scotland, I think. I'm from the North West, and I think it was always Father Christmas when I was little, but my cousins who still live there now say Santa....