Oh, it’s been a while. According to (some) blogger etiquette, I’m not supposed to remind you of that, but I wanted to say that I’ve missed being here. Having been well-occupied with children and domestic Canadian life, writing has dropped to the bottom of the priority list. This is unfortunate but due to be addressed as soon as December 25th is just a memory. In the meanwhile, here’s a little something to stir up your brain cells.
If I were diabolical, I would post this on Christmas Night, when everybody’s brain is in a fog from too much food and drink. However, since I will be in the same state and wouldn’t remember to do that, they’re going up now.
Each phrase is a clue to a well-known Christmas carol. Good luck! (Answers will be posted….later. When depends on how desperate you get!)
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1. Move hitherward the entire assembly of all who are loyal in their belief.
2. Listen, the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds.
3. Nocturnal time-span of unbroken quietness
4. An emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good, given to the celestial sphere
5. The Christmas preceding all others
6. Small municipality in Judea, south of Jerusalem.
7. Diminutive masculine master of skin covered percussionistic cylinders.
8. Omnipotent, Supreme Being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males.
9. The first person normative plural of a triumvirate of Far Easter n heads of state.
10. Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of crystallized vapour.
11. Geographic state of fantasy during the season of mother nature’s dormancy
12. 12 Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted, metallic, resonant cups
13. In a distant location, the existence of an improvised unit of a newborn’s slumber furniture.
14. Proceed forth declaring upon a specific geological formation
15. Quadruped with a crimson probiscus
16. Adorn the vestibule
17. Cherubim audited from aloft
18. Hallowed Post-Meridian
19. Fantasia of a colourless December 25
20. A dozen 24 hour Yule periods
21. Befell during a transparent witching hour
22. Desire a pair of incisors on the day of Natal celebration
23. I spied my maternal parent osculating Father Christmas
24. Joyful Yuletide desired for the second person singular, by us!
To all my blogger friends, I wish a joyful Christmas and all best wishes for the New Year.
One cannot post the answers as comments, for then other bloggers could crib them and claim the Trophy Christmas Pudding.
ReplyDeleteGolly, etc. etc. you wait weeks for a post, and then you get three in a row, all on the same route.
ReplyDelete(To paraphrase Wendy Cope - poet)
Doc,
ReplyDeleteFairplay, good for you!
I'd love to see YOUR answers, which would be highly original I'm sure...
(I'm not going to post the answers until everybody is desperate and willing to pay for them.)
Friko,
ReplyDeleteStop complaining. At least I turned up.
love this!
ReplyDeleteWould you believe me if I said I got all of them?
ReplyDeleteDeb :) Merry Christmas! (Are you painting poinsettia?)
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Kath,
Of course I would. I didn't expect anything less of you.
Glad to see you posting again! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI got all but about 5. I'll check back. This was fun, and you are a clever woman. It wasn't too bad using my brain this morning after my second cuppa coffee.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful Christmas to you, Deborah. It looks like France is very Christmassy!
Honey, that horse done left the barn! It's too damned early for me to think straight. This is how all that looked to me when I saw it:
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Maybe I'll try later when I'm more lucid. If that ever happens!
There's a blogger etiquette manual?
No nonononoooooo...... I'm stuck I can't leave until I get them right . . .
ReplyDeleteI came here via ds's blogroll. What fun it is to decipher your questions! Also, your snow photo seems so familiar, and when I look at your profile, Ha, I find a fellow Canadian. (As for France, I can only say I'm an occasional tourist only) Have a Merry Christmas and enjoy the snow country!
ReplyDeleteNancy, it's good to be back in touch - I missed this place of kindred spirits! Merry Christmas to you, too!
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Ruth, Ruth.....I didn't make them up :( I wish I was that clever, but no. Keep on with them - I'm sure you'll get them all. It certainly took me a while the first time.
Right now I'm in Calgary - the header photo is in France, obviously, but it was actually taken last February. The post photo is of my son's driveway!
Merry Christmas to you and have a lovely, lovely time!
Anita, good to see you!!! Keep it up - you'll get them. They're pretty fun in a crowd too. Do you ever play Balderdash? (sorta related) Warm Christmas wishes to you and your family...xx
ReplyDeleteSusie, that made me laugh out loud. You are hilarious!
ReplyDeleteBlog etiquette - well, Ive read a few posts about that. Most of it's just common sense about replying to commenters etc etc. But the issue of infrequent posting came up the other day on ProBlogger, and it was the writer's opinion that there's no point in making it obvious that you don't post very often, or that you've been way too busy to get to your blog. But we know that OUR blog buddies will always be there, right?
And on that note, I'm off to read yours. xxoo
Arti, Welcome and Merry Christmas to you too! I've no doubt, having been over to your blog, that you'll figure out all the answers in a nanosecond. If perchance you hesitate on some, answers will be posted here in a day or so.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.
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I have that list somewhere in one of my "important papers" files, Deborah, and just love it. It's a great way to meet people as a party teaser at Christmastime. I'm glad to know YOU know some of us actually miss you when you aren't around. And yet, of course, we all understand the hectic life of one like you who travels between homes. I've been there in your boat and totally understand. Please have the best of this holiday season!
ReplyDeleteExcellent post...but truth is, you already gave me one of my best Xmas pressies this year, thanks to the ringy-dingy.
ReplyDelete's funny - I could do ALL of these the other night under the influence, but am struggling now I revisit after several days of ... erm ... seasonal merriment.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant list - I'm not sure 22 and 23 are carols exactly but nice to see them on the list.
Ginnie, I just wish I could give proper credit for it, but I don't know who the author is. Maybe I should Google it...
ReplyDeleteI'm been so absent lately, and then all of a sudden had things to write about and felt like it AND had a bit of time!!! I'm just disorganized, is all. Thanks for being so understanding, dear woman.
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Jocelyn, yes that WAS fun, wasn't it??
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BB,
I can just imagine what you might come up with, given a bit of time and a few more drinks. Do it! Do it! Give us something next year, pleeeeeeaaase??
Sorry I did not realize that you had written. I think you are having fun, but I am afraid that I can get none of the songs – I wish you had included one in French like from the few I know – Il est né le divin enfant ou mon beau sapin, ou petit papa noël, but as for the American ones – I a clueless.
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