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Yes, Father Christmas, that reminds me. i was very grateful for all the magical Christmas ideas yesterday. Except, I do not want to pretend that Father Christmas is real - St Nicholas was but he doesn't coming whizzing down a chimney once a year. The whole jolly ho ho ho creepy figure is an advertising gimmick from the thirties. It is tosh. Am I being mean? Can I leave DS a stocking with pressies but say it's extra presents from me & DH in the tradition of Saint Nicholas on the Continent?

Ayvi..Ayvi..Ayvi

We need a new thread soon. Be careful we don't fall off the edge of the world again

No. You say it is from Father Christmas, I think. If you think the creeping thing is creepy, then you can say he parked his sleigh in the garden and you went out to meet him. Though this is just my opinion of course. How are you going to explain the plethora of red dressed people with white beards, and how are you going to explain why FC doesn't come to see him but this continental chap does, when FC comes to everyone else?

Embrace it. It's harmless. They work it out early on anyway.

I say that. But ds1, who is TEN fgs, said to me yesterday 'look you know how you say we should be honest? Tell me, are you Father Christmas?' and I said 'Yes' and he said 'Thank god. I thought so.'

Avvy avvy avvy

erm this year I told ds FC was just a story really and we all pretended so that we could enjoy the magic of it

he says no he isn't, he is real real real real real

ah thank you, I shall search some threads.

I think of you as 'Avi' with a short 'a' vowel, not a dipthong 'Ay-vy'. Don't know why, I just do.

ok new thread titles please

nothing to do with jam

no need to go all technical, Possum, Ayvi or Avvi will do.

I have winked a lot tonight.

But no Avi it is more likely that these ds's without FC will wonder why he doesn't come to them. And then you will spin round and round on your island when he keeps asking you 'is it because I am a bad boy Mummy?'

now you're at it

I vote Avvi.

Thread title suggestion "Why do you build me up, Butternut, baby, chestnut lentil me down". Crapola I know but I'm rubbish at 'punning'

at MrsC!

100x, I wasn't going to say that FC visits most kids but some weird Continental block visits DS, just that there is a lovely tradition about Saint Nicholas bringing presents to children and that is what his stocking is part of - that tradition.
DS is only half English and lots of the things we do are 'odd' to English people so I sense he will manage it. WE are culturally bi-lingual as well as linguistically bi-lingual I now realise. I do it too, switch for being a certain way in one country then unthinkingly switching when back here. Table manners, loo etiquette, all sorts.
The crazy fat men in red on the high street will be an interesting introduction to the power of crass marketing and mass commercialisation.

In RL I really dislike people who wink. If dh bought one of those as a transference present in a shop, I'd be steaming actually. Sitting here winking all the time. Grrr.

Excellent Possum. There's nothing like the magic of childhood is there?

God I must stop winking. It's like we've all got a twitch or something.

Godnight all

Other parents hold no fear for me Avi. I asked one woman why she was so desperate that he children did not believe in God but that Father Christmas was real. I'm not bothered what stance she does take on either issue, simply that her intellectual inconsistency was bizarre to an external observer.

I guess it takes them a lot longer to work out God's not real in the long run though, and he doesn't leave rustley bustley stockings.

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