Home-Country Ghosts of Christmas Past: Do you miss them?

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Folks,

 

In case you haven’t returned to your Home Country in awhile, say about over three decades, then how do you imagine Christmas festivities have changed back in your Home Country, since your last visit.

 

I do have vivid memories of the Christmas Holiday during the 60s and 70s, when I was last in the USA. Living in my Asian Bubble, I have been duly insulated from exposure to the gradual changes in my Home Country’s Christmas habits which have doubtlessly occurred during my absence. Would I be shocked to suddenly return, like a half-Asian Santa to find just too many distortions to the once more-refined way we once passed the Christmas Holidays, with family time, good cheer, and a home-cooked dinner, provided by our maid, Eliza, from North Philly. I remember her for being quite stout, and for her one glass eye.

 

I never did enjoy Christmas very much when I was living in my Home Country. I have never celebrated Christmas in Asia, either, since I first arrived.

 

Does anyone know how Christmas might have changed since I was last in the USA, or the UK, for that matter?  I would love to know.  YouTube vids of holidaymakers just cannot do justice to the experience, and are a poor substitute for being there.

 

So, that’s the question I pose this day, three days before this annual coming-together of people of all faiths.

 

And now, let me tell you what I will be doing on Christmas Eve….

 

Sommerset has always been one of my favorite authors.

Maybe it’s because Asia was a favorite subject for Maugham.

 

And I have just found a free Christmas Story written by William, on Google, my favorite resource for all things good and holy.

 

This story is: Christmas Holiday

 

The story begins like this:

 

 

You can read at least part of it for free, right here, using this link, I think.

https://www.google.co.th/books/edition/Christmas_Holiday/wdwXEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

 

This is my Christmas Gift to you….

 

Please don’t say I never gave you nothin’.....

 

Best regards,

Ho’ Ho’

Gamma

 

 

[Ralf001]

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

 

In case you haven’t returned to your Home Country in awhile, , then how do you imagine Christmas festivities have changed back in your Home Country, since your last visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nope I do not imagine, family and friends keep their facebook profiles well updated as to their respective xmas activities.

[KannikaP]

Wow, now it's Ghosts, after Refined Falangs 3 hours ago and Flaunting Wealth yesterday morning, as well as several others.

Gamma, you joined as this name in July 2021, 42 moths ago. Since then you have posted 12667 times, which in my maths is 301 per month or TEN EVERY DAY.

What do you do the rest of your time?

[GammaGlobulin]

2 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Wow, now it's Ghosts, after Refined Falangs 3 hours ago and Flaunting Wealth yesterday morning, as well as several others.

Gamma, you joined as this name in July 2021, 42 moths ago. Since then you have posted 12667 times, which in my maths is 301 per month or TEN EVERY DAY.

What do you do the rest of your time?

 

I have always, since my early youth, been known for my prolificacy.

 

[KannikaP]

56 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I have always, since my early youth, been known for my prolificacy.

 

Prolificacy means lots of bull<deleted>?

[scottiejohn]

35 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I have always, since my early youth, been known for my prolificacy.

 

What a Victorian era Trollope you are proving to be, but not very successfully unfortunately!

[GammaGlobulin]

16 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

What a Victorian era Trollope you are proving to be, but not very successfully unfortunately!

 

This book was also one of my favorites, about a famous imaginary trollop.

 

It is beautifully written.

I have enjoyed it many times in my youth.

 

I have not read Trollope.

Although, I may yet become a writer of Trollope's stature....IF...

I just put in a bit more practice...

On TV.

 

 

 

 

[herfiehandbag]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I have always, since my early youth, been known for my prolificacy.

 

You mean you "put it about a bit"?

[metisdead]

A troll post of an callous nature has been removed. 

 

A post with disguised profanity has been edited, as a reminder @KannikaP:

• You will not post vulgarities, obscenities or profanities.

Continue disguised profanities with the intent to bypass the profanity filter will continue to be edited or removed. 

 

[save the frogs]

2 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Wow, now it's Ghosts, after Refined Falangs 3 hours ago and Flaunting Wealth yesterday morning, as well as several others.

Gamma, you joined as this name in July 2021, 42 moths ago. Since then you have posted 12667 times, which in my maths is 301 per month or TEN EVERY DAY.

What do you do the rest of your time?

haha, you took the time to do the math?

[save the frogs]

To be fair, it's a valid non troll topic since it is Xmastime. 

 

Xmas is great if your family relationships are good.

The sibling rivalry in my family is off the charts and Asia is a perfect place to escape this bs. 

 

 

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

The maid.

 

I bet she kept an eye out for you.

 

Especially at Christmas.

[GammaGlobulin]

6 minutes ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

The maid.

 

I bet she kept an eye out for you.

 

Especially at Christmas.

 

Yes.

One time, when I was 16, and just back from boarding school, I drank all her brandy she had prepared for baking our family's fruitcake.

 

"Gamma-Wamma",....!!!

She scolded me.....

"Stay out of my kitchen".....

 

Reminded me of some scene from....

Gone with the Wind.

 

Note:  Great Book, by the way....  I read it twice, cover to cover.