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The Cambridge Chat Thread

Merry Chirstmas to One and All! Hope you all have a great day, with plenty of sumptuous wine, food and good cheer. Lastly I hope santa was kind to you all.
Festive love :xmas:

Happy Christmas all!

sonofdot

They sang O Magnum Mysterium which I sang with my school choir last year... :sogood:

D:

I absolutely love that one, it just totally melts you. The Downing choir did it awesomely at the carol service. Must check to see if the Kings choir is on iPlayer...

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Craghyrax

OP

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oOo. I got a vintage, oversized wool cardigan with leather buttons. I've always thought the baggy 'boys sweater' kind of style looked quite nice, but I wasn't sure about risking it. Turns out it looks quite nice (I think)

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munro90

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bleurgh- had a raging fever yesterday got up to 38.8 degrees C by early evening which severely reduced enjoyment of christmas foodstuffs and wine :frown:

On plus side presents were good with some nice Dows port, a useful cufflink case, the new hitchhikers guide and monies for kayaking gear :smile:

hope everyone's festivities went well- your cardy sounds nice craggy, i'm always a fan of vintage clothes :yep:

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alex_hk90

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munro90

On plus side presents were good with some nice Dows port, a useful cufflink case, the new hitchhikers guide and monies for kayaking gear :smile:

I've almost finished reading this - it has been surprisingly good. :smile:

Reply 9126

mwiko

alex_hk90

I've almost finished reading this - it has been surprisingly good. :smile:

I thought it was very good for not being Douglas Adams, and that Eoin Colfer's style was quite compatible anyway.. but I did kinda expect Artemis to pop up..

Mm. Hamlet. It's such a David Tennant Christmas, yay!

Reply 9127

ukebert

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Zoedotdot

But I still find churches to be very comforting places, of any denomination.

Agreed. And they have lovely architecture.

Tom

I don't know tbh. They are both in identical style (that style that a shedload of english churches seem to be in...dating from C18th I think?). I know the one in my village was built because before that the locals had to trek out to a little chapel on the coast to worship+bury their dead (hence the path by my house leading that way is called the coffin path).

I don't know much about the history of the more recently built churches tbh, whether local money or central church money funded them etc. A lot certainly do adhere to the same design... The little old squat+square norman ones are the best though.

A lot of English Churches are Gothic (late 12thC-mid 16thC), but it is occasionally difficult to distinguish between true Gothic and Neo-gothic (19th C ish), since the Victorians "restored" many churches.

Reply 9128

scarlet ibis

hey, hope everyones having a good christmas.

i have spent this afternoon doing some drawings (of their pets) as gifts for friends of ours who are looking after our cat. i'd forgotten how much i love drawing, and surprised myself with the fact that i've not lost it. :smile:

Reply 9129

visesh

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Wow, it's been five years since our house got tsunami-ed. I am impressed with how my parents have managed to renovate it.

Reply 9130

alex_hk90

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mwiko

I thought it was very good for not being Douglas Adams, and that Eoin Colfer's style was quite compatible anyway.. but I did kinda expect Artemis to pop up..

I don't think that would've worked, so I'm glad he didn't (unless I missed it).

Reply 9131

Apagg

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Ugh, I hated Artemis Fowl, I couldn't believe how badly it was written. I refuse to read Colfer's raping of Adams

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alex_hk90

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Apagg

Ugh, I hated Artemis Fowl, I couldn't believe how badly it was written. I refuse to read Colfer's raping of Adams

I read Artemis Fowl ages ago so can't remember if it was badly written, just that I enjoyed the stories. :yes:

Reply 9133

TableChair

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Athena

Are eucharists normally... weird? You know, full of "and with thy spirits" and having to respond to every line of some of the readings? I haven't been to a proper (ie non-funeral/wedding) service since I was 9, and I'm sure those services were mostly hymns, a couple of prayers and a short sermon, not this get up - sit down - stand and stay standing - process to the back of the church stuff :s-smilie:

Yep.

I got forced to go to midnight mass this year. It was an hour and a half of that with half an hour of carols before it, I almost died.

Reply 9134

Zoedotdot

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I am sad. I was pretending that I was working by playing Civ earlier as Russia (when you give them orders they reply in Russian, lol) and now my dad has kicked me off the desktop saying I have my own computer. Which is a Mac, and my version of Civ is PC :frown:

Badtimes.

Reply 9135

FadeToBlackout

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Athena

Are eucharists normally... weird? You know, full of "and with thy spirits" and having to respond to every line of some of the readings? I haven't been to a proper (ie non-funeral/wedding) service since I was 9, and I'm sure those services were mostly hymns, a couple of prayers and a short sermon, not this get up - sit down - stand and stay standing - process to the back of the church stuff :s-smilie:

Yes. We had two or three every term in primary school.

I can still remember many of the words, though- clearly they managed to imprint upon my subconscious.