Gath from Sudoku.com.au

Christmas crackers.......OH NO ........Who brought the tree ?

It's OK - I got it

I cant get in to the party on page 2 - hoping this post will get me in the back door.

heres cheers Gath Merry Christmas to you and Kym and wishing all the best for a very Happy New Year

Here Comes Santa Claus
Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman (c) 1947

Here comes Santa Claus!
Here comes Santa Claus!
Right down Santa Claus Lane!
Vixen and Blitzen and all his reindeer
are pulling on the reins.
Bells are ringing, children singing;
All is merry and bright.
Hang your stockings and say your prayers,
'Cause Santa Claus comes tonight.

Here comes Santa Claus!
Here comes Santa Claus!
Right down Santa Claus Lane!
He's got a bag that is filled with toys
for the boys and girls again.
Hear those sleigh bells jingle jangle,
What a beautiful sight.
Jump in bed, cover up your head,
'Cause Santa Claus comes tonight

♪♫ Oh Oh
How Beautiful you are to me ♪♫♪
na ...na na na___na na na na
♪I don't know the rest na na....♪♪♫

♪♫ Oh oh na na
na na NA NA!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a
Gath & Kym !

♪♫♪♪♫♪ Away in a Sudoku (Sung in falsetto... tra lllaaa (warming up))

Away in a sudoku
No pencil or lead
I chalked up my puzzle
All numbers in my head
♪♫♪
Then Gath in the bright sky
Looked down where I lay
and gave me a puzzle
on easy to play
♪♫♪
It took me ten minutes
and plenty of thought
but he gave me 'sm'
for a price I bought
♪♫♪
I signed in at once
and started to play
While sweet Gath and Kym
Lay down in the hay
♪♫♪
Bless all the dear people
In thy tender care
and wish them Happy Christmas
Full of good fayre
♪♫♪
MERRY CHRISTMAS GATH AND KYM AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR XX

I'll just change into costume... be back soon!!

Christmas For Cowboys
S. Weisberg (c) 1975
Tall in the saddle we spend Christmas day
Driving the cattle on the snow-covered plains.
All of the good gifts given today;
Ours is the sky and the wide open range.

Back in the cities, they have different ways,
Football and eggnog and Christmas parades.
I'll take the blanket; I'll take the reins;
Christmas for Cowboys and wide open plains.

A campfire for warmth as we stop for the night;
The stars overhead are the Christmas-tree lights.
The wind sings a hymn as we bow down to pray;
Christmas for Cowboys and the wide open plains.

It's tall in the saddle we spend Christmas Day,
Driving the cattle on the snow-covered plains.
So many gifts have been opened today;
Ours is the sky and the wide open range.
It's Christmas for Cowboys and wide open plains.

One of my very favorite Christmas songs.
WARNING: RELIGIOUS CONTENT!!!!

Mary, Did You Know?
c. 1991 Word Music ( a division of Word, Inc.) and Rufus Music (admin. by Keeling & Company, Inc, Nashville, TN) Words: Mark Lowry Music: Buddy Greene
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?
Did you know
That your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you've delivered
Will soon deliver you

Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will calm a storm with His hand?
Did you know
That your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
And when you kiss your little baby
You've kissed the face of God

Mary, did you know?
The blind will see
The deaf will hear
And the dead will live again
The lame will leap
The dumb will speak
The praises of the Lamb

Mary, did you know
That your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will one day rule the nations?
Did you know
That your baby boy is heaven's perfect Lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding
Is the Great I Am

Oh Mary did you know?

A link to John Denver singing the beginning of Christmas For Cowboys....

http://music.msn.com/album/?album=29456222#

Wait...brought the Creme de Vie....Should I use the recipe page?...better so I won't get

INGREDIENTS

* 710 ml water
* 600 g sugar
* 18 egg yolks
* 3 (14 ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk
* 710 ml rum
* 15 ml vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS

1. In a saucepan, combine water and sugar. Bring to a boil and cook for 3 minutes.
2. Place egg yolks in a blender and process on high speed. Slowly pour in the hot sugar water while blending (pouring too fast might curdle the yolks.) Add condensed milk, rum and vanilla. Blend until smooth. Chill in refrigerator.

Courtesy of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band:
Looking out the window of this Hollywood hotel,
You'd never know that it was Christmas Eve.
The billboards and the neon took the place of Silver Bells,
And the temperature is 84 degrees.
I can hear the traffic on the crowded strip below
As the palm trees poke their heads above the scene
There's not a single reindeer and it hardly ever snows,
And Santa drives a Rolls Royce limousine.

But all along the Rockies you can feel it in the air
From Telluride to Boulder down below
The closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere
Is a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado snow

I remember Christmases when I was just a boy
In the morning I would run to see the tree.
And the carolers on the hillside sang their songs of Christmas joy
Well, I always thought they sang them just for me.
Now the sun is setting in the California sky
And I cant find the spirit anywhere
So I think its time for me to tell Los Angeles goodbye
I'm going back home to look for Christmas there

But all along the Rockies you can feel it in the air
From Telluride to Boulder down below
The closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere
Is a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado snow

nal, sounds delish!

Gingerbread men are baking in the oven... show of hands, please... how many of you like having raisins baked in for buttons? Hocolate chips instead? Or should I leave a few plain so everyone can decorate his/her own?

Christmas in Dixe
Alabama

Verse1:
D Em A7 Dma7
By now in New York City. There's snow on the ground.
Em A7 D D7
And out in California. The sunshines' falling down.
G A7 D Bm
And maybe down in Memphis, Graceland's all in lights.
Em A7 D
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight.

Chorus1:
D G A7 D Bm
Christmas in Dixie, its snowing in the pines.
Em A7 D
Merry Christmas from Dixie to everyone tonight.

Verse2:
D Em A7 Dma7
Its windy in Chicago. The kids are out of school.
Em A7 Dma7 D7
There's magic in Motown. The city's on the move.
G A7 D Bm
In Jackson, Mississippi to Charlotte, Caroline.
Em A7 D
And all across the Nation, its a peaceful Christmas time.

Chorous2:
D G A7 D Bm
Christmas in Dixie, its snowing in the pines.
Em A7 D
Merry Christmas from Dixie, to everyone tonight.
Em A7 D
And from Fort Payne, Alabama..Merry Christmas tonight.

In honor of CP's hubby and other stranded Christmas travelers.

I'll Be Home For Christmas
Kim Gannon, Walter Kent (c) 1943
I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
and presents on the tree

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

Are you guys all in the kitchen drinking while I'm out here singing my heart out?

I am off looking for Mariachis, Salsa Band, or just about anyone that will sing Silent Night in Spanish to give you all an idea as to what my childhood sounded like....but I am back....they all must be getting ready for the Nochebuena.

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My dear friends.... ...

mmmmmm
wonder whether Gath set a trap for us in his room .... have to post to get in or out .... rotfl
ok the party is off and running .... tree is decorated, bar is stocked, table is full of food, the singing is just wongerful.

Wongerful? I KNEW you'd been drining in the kitchen!

Right - so who's here ? good good - has Gath popped in yet ?

shorry sharah - hic - jusht a leetle bit of bransd ...I mean..braandss.... I mean ...b r a n d y.....got schpilt and we (hic) had to um kida clean it upsh.

sarah beth
one of my many typos that creep in to my not so great typing skills.
and now it is a special sudoku word.
mmmmmmm my excuse anyway cos I am on the alcohol free fruit punch ...... it is alcohol free isnt it??

Rose, nice party!

oooooooooo no col were you making the fruit punch??

is it warm in the generator room??
guess you need a cold ale and a little sing song??

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
from the film Meet Me In St. Louis
Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane 1943

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on,
our troubles will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days,
happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
gather near to us once more.

Through the years we all will be together
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now.

Hello, is Gath on to us, when I click next I get a blank (as in totally blank) page.

I want a dinky di Christmas, down on the beach all cosy and warm
Or floating down the Murray in no big hurry
Or out on Aunty Rosey’s farm.
Give me a dinky di Christmas, the Southern Cross up in the sky
May your esky never run dry, and may Christmas be dinky di.

Now if your winter is a bummer you can change it in to summer
In the Southern Hemisphere
And if you’ve got something that’s ailing ya I recommend Australia
It’s a lovely time of year

For a very special Christmas bring your children and the missus
Where the sun shines every day
Well I hope that you’re excited ‘cause you’re formally invited
To come and share our holiday.

‘Cause if you’d like a dinky di Christmas, ‘Stalia’s the only place
To go surfin’ in warm water with someone’s daughter
And not freezing in the snow

Give me a dinky di Christmas
‘Cause nowhere else will satisfy
May your esky never run dry,
And may Christmas be dinky di.

Give me a dinky di Christmas,
The Southern Cross up in the sky
May your esky never run dry,
And may Christmas be dinky di.

That's on my ''A Real Aussie Christmas'' CD, sung by Barry Crocker.

Oh, I forgot, Merry Christmas, Gath and Kym - thank you for the joy I get out of this site all year, it's a true gift.

And one more make it a Christmas cereal post - but I think cereal is too ordinary for Christmas. Here, I just made some fabulous Bircher muesli full of cream and cranberries as well as all the usual fruit and nuts!

catch me if you can!

I think Gath has set this up this way so he has got the biggest number of comments by Christmas

Anne/vermont said something about no takers so far for a gingerbreadman ...I'll have one please...

oooh got in!!! hey everybody!!! Lovely singing Nance and André, you should be on 'idol'.

Gingerbreadman - for godsake keep still...just a nibble...

OH no Billy - you're not still in that 'state' are you? - leave the poor little gingerbread man alone!

Hey - I just cracked my Christmas Cracker. Here's the joke that was inside. 'What do you call a man with a paper bag on his head?'

Answer:

Russell