(So, true story, when I was little my absolute favorite Christmas book was called Lucy and Tom's Christmas. It was very, very British and absolutely nothing happened in it. Anyways, on one page, there are carol singers in the market and Lucy and Tom sing along to the ones they know and they know all the words to Away in a Manger, another one I've forgotten, and Once in Royal David's City. We always wondered what the heck Once in Royal David's City was as this was the only place we had ever heard of it. I think I was maybe 20 before I finally heard it and it was like oh my god, it's the song!!! The one from the thing!!!!)
So, true story, when I was little my absolute favorite Christmas book was called Lucy and Tom's Christmas. from what I have been able to google it looks adorable. By Shirley Hughes? And now you've made me wonder what my fabourite was... A Christmas Carol sort of doesn't count, because that was just read aloud, so... Mog's Christmas (all the love), Peters Jul (='Peter's Christmas' - terribly Danish Christmas book written all in rhyme, Victorian in time and tone, but I just looked it up and ye gods, just the images is like falling back into time) and another Danish book, 'Grantræet' ('The fir tree') by H.C. Andersen, following a little fir tree as it grows in the forest and then gets cut down, becomes a Christmas tree and gets all decorated (and is terribly happy) except in the end it just gets thrown out and taken away - and it's awfully tragic, but the pictures were just beautiful. HI THERE MEMORY LANE. Apologies.
We always wondered what the heck Once in Royal David's City was as this was the only place we had ever heard of it. I think I was maybe 20 before I finally heard it and it was like oh my god, it's the song!!! The one from the thing!!!!) This is just so odd to me - I just presumed that Christmas carols would overlap? I almost asked what other carols you aren't familiar with (I'm quite sleepy now), but I would just have presumed that Americans would be familiar with all the British ones? Like... shared cultural heritage?
Anyway, I chose this one, cause Darcy used to be a chorister at Westminster and was chosen for this solo on more than one occasion. :)
Merry Christmas! And thank you for the present!!! You're welcome <3
rom what I have been able to google it looks adorable. By Shirley Hughes? That's the one! I found it all ~terribly exotic and yet wonderfully banal: stirring the Christmas pudding! Posting letters to Santa up the chimney! Strange Christmas carols that very young British children know all the words to and I've never heard of! It was the best. I think my mom still has it around . . . I should find it.
And now you've made me wonder what my fabourite was... A Christmas Carol sort of doesn't count, because that was just read aloud, so... Mog's Christmas (all the love) Oh man, that looks cute. Looks like that one exists in the States too.
Peters Jul (='Peter's Christmas' - terribly Danish Christmas book written all in rhyme, Victorian in time and tone, but I just looked it up and ye gods, just the images is like falling back into time) and another Danish book, 'Grantræet' ('The fir tree') by H.C. Andersen Googling not terribly useful here if you don't know Danish, but sounds good to me!
except in the end it just gets thrown out and taken away - and it's awfully tragic, but the pictures were just beautiful. HI THERE MEMORY LANE. Apologies. Lol, no worries.
This is just so odd to me - I just presumed that Christmas carols would overlap? I almost asked what other carols you aren't familiar with (I'm quite sleepy now), but I would just have presumed that Americans would be familiar with all the British ones? Like... shared cultural heritage? Isn't it weird? As far as I can tell it's the only major example. I'm sure that certain carols are more or less known in either country (Good King Wenceslas, for example, is rather a deep cut over here, but I gather more popular there, based on Hugh Grant singing it in Love Actually), and there are a number of very old carols that I'm going to guess are on the rarer side in both countries (Coventry Carol?), but it's the only one I know of that I think is just genuinely not really known in the US despite being very prominent in Britain. The only places I've really run into it is if you find somebody doing Lessons and Carols, in which case they will always sing that first, as I gather is tradition.
Anyway, I chose this one, cause Darcy used to be a chorister at Westminster and was chosen for this solo on more than one occasion. :) Ahh, yes. You'd mentioned the choristering.
It's a great carol either way: minor key, full choir. As Christmas carols should be. /opinionated
That's the one! I found it all ~terribly exotic and yet wonderfully banal: stirring the Christmas pudding! Posting letters to Santa up the chimney! Strange Christmas carols that very young British children know all the words to and I've never heard of! It was the best. I think my mom still has it around . . . I should find it. That's so cute. <3 (And yes, British books were rather exotic for me too, growing up.)
Oh man, that looks cute. Looks like that one exists in the States too. Found a youtube video of it being read aloud:
It's the LOVELIEST. <3 (He says he's reading 'excerpts' but as far as I can tell he only skips a single line.) Mog is the BEST fictional cat, because she's the most realistic.
Googling not terribly useful here if you don't know Danish, but sounds good to me! Found a whole bunch of screencaps. The cover which is like travelling back in time. And then a blogger seems to have posted loads. The first few pages (introduction, and Peter catching his father making Christmas decorations in secret), the next page (mother sending out 'the help' to do lots of shopping, lots of secret whispering), the following two (big sister making presents, and little Peter looking forward to Christmas cake & goose), the next three (inviting grandma, Christmas dinner and after dinner cosy-ness). I'm sure there also is a page about giving some of Peter's old clothes to a poor little boy and various other things, but can't find them. However, this is the alternative cover. It's just dripping with nostalgia.
Isn't it weird? As far as I can tell it's the only major example. I'm sure that certain carols are more or less known in either country Which makes sense, but still - weird.
(Good King Wenceslas, for example, is rather a deep cut over here, but I gather more popular there, based on Hugh Grant singing it in Love Actually) /hasn't seen Love Actually
The only places I've really run into it is if you find somebody doing Lessons and Carols, in which case they will always sing that first, as I gather is tradition. Yes, it's used to open the midnight mass, hence the fancy solo.
Ahh, yes. You'd mentioned the choristering. I thought I had. Whether or not 9 year olds should be professionals is another question again...
It's a great carol either way: minor key, full choir. As Christmas carols should be. /opinionated Hear hear!
(I have spent pretty much all day writing - quite leisurely, but also a bitch of a chapter.) (Chapter 6, called 'Losing My religion'. It'll be in 3 parts and is full of 'There Are Always Consequences'. Just finished Crowley yelling at God & storming out. I am LOVING it, but it's hard work.)
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(So, true story, when I was little my absolute favorite Christmas book was called Lucy and Tom's Christmas. It was very, very British and absolutely nothing happened in it. Anyways, on one page, there are carol singers in the market and Lucy and Tom sing along to the ones they know and they know all the words to Away in a Manger, another one I've forgotten, and Once in Royal David's City. We always wondered what the heck Once in Royal David's City was as this was the only place we had ever heard of it. I think I was maybe 20 before I finally heard it and it was like oh my god, it's the song!!! The one from the thing!!!!)
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<3
So, true story, when I was little my absolute favorite Christmas book was called Lucy and Tom's Christmas.
from what I have been able to google it looks adorable. By Shirley Hughes? And now you've made me wonder what my fabourite was... A Christmas Carol sort of doesn't count, because that was just read aloud, so... Mog's Christmas (all the love), Peters Jul (='Peter's Christmas' - terribly Danish Christmas book written all in rhyme, Victorian in time and tone, but I just looked it up and ye gods, just the images is like falling back into time) and another Danish book, 'Grantræet' ('The fir tree') by H.C. Andersen, following a little fir tree as it grows in the forest and then gets cut down, becomes a Christmas tree and gets all decorated (and is terribly happy) except in the end it just gets thrown out and taken away - and it's awfully tragic, but the pictures were just beautiful. HI THERE MEMORY LANE. Apologies.
We always wondered what the heck Once in Royal David's City was as this was the only place we had ever heard of it. I think I was maybe 20 before I finally heard it and it was like oh my god, it's the song!!! The one from the thing!!!!)
This is just so odd to me - I just presumed that Christmas carols would overlap? I almost asked what other carols you aren't familiar with (I'm quite sleepy now), but I would just have presumed that Americans would be familiar with all the British ones? Like... shared cultural heritage?
Anyway, I chose this one, cause Darcy used to be a chorister at Westminster and was chosen for this solo on more than one occasion. :)
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You're welcome <3
rom what I have been able to google it looks adorable. By Shirley Hughes?
That's the one! I found it all ~terribly exotic and yet wonderfully banal: stirring the Christmas pudding! Posting letters to Santa up the chimney! Strange Christmas carols that very young British children know all the words to and I've never heard of! It was the best. I think my mom still has it around . . . I should find it.
And now you've made me wonder what my fabourite was... A Christmas Carol sort of doesn't count, because that was just read aloud, so... Mog's Christmas (all the love)
Oh man, that looks cute. Looks like that one exists in the States too.
Peters Jul (='Peter's Christmas' - terribly Danish Christmas book written all in rhyme, Victorian in time and tone, but I just looked it up and ye gods, just the images is like falling back into time) and another Danish book, 'Grantræet' ('The fir tree') by H.C. Andersen
Googling not terribly useful here if you don't know Danish, but sounds good to me!
except in the end it just gets thrown out and taken away - and it's awfully tragic, but the pictures were just beautiful. HI THERE MEMORY LANE. Apologies.
Lol, no worries.
This is just so odd to me - I just presumed that Christmas carols would overlap? I almost asked what other carols you aren't familiar with (I'm quite sleepy now), but I would just have presumed that Americans would be familiar with all the British ones? Like... shared cultural heritage?
Isn't it weird? As far as I can tell it's the only major example. I'm sure that certain carols are more or less known in either country (Good King Wenceslas, for example, is rather a deep cut over here, but I gather more popular there, based on Hugh Grant singing it in Love Actually), and there are a number of very old carols that I'm going to guess are on the rarer side in both countries (Coventry Carol?), but it's the only one I know of that I think is just genuinely not really known in the US despite being very prominent in Britain. The only places I've really run into it is if you find somebody doing Lessons and Carols, in which case they will always sing that first, as I gather is tradition.
Anyway, I chose this one, cause Darcy used to be a chorister at Westminster and was chosen for this solo on more than one occasion. :)
Ahh, yes. You'd mentioned the choristering.
It's a great carol either way: minor key, full choir. As Christmas carols should be. /opinionated
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That's so cute. <3 (And yes, British books were rather exotic for me too, growing up.)
Oh man, that looks cute. Looks like that one exists in the States too.
Found a youtube video of it being read aloud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6vm6C9DRcM
It's the LOVELIEST. <3 (He says he's reading 'excerpts' but as far as I can tell he only skips a single line.) Mog is the BEST fictional cat, because she's the most realistic.
Googling not terribly useful here if you don't know Danish, but sounds good to me!
Found a whole bunch of screencaps. The cover which is like travelling back in time. And then a blogger seems to have posted loads. The first few pages (introduction, and Peter catching his father making Christmas decorations in secret), the next page (mother sending out 'the help' to do lots of shopping, lots of secret whispering), the following two (big sister making presents, and little Peter looking forward to Christmas cake & goose), the next three (inviting grandma, Christmas dinner and after dinner cosy-ness). I'm sure there also is a page about giving some of Peter's old clothes to a poor little boy and various other things, but can't find them. However, this is the alternative cover. It's just dripping with nostalgia.
Isn't it weird? As far as I can tell it's the only major example. I'm sure that certain carols are more or less known in either country
Which makes sense, but still - weird.
(Good King Wenceslas, for example, is rather a deep cut over here, but I gather more popular there, based on Hugh Grant singing it in Love Actually)
/hasn't seen Love Actually
The only places I've really run into it is if you find somebody doing Lessons and Carols, in which case they will always sing that first, as I gather is tradition.
Yes, it's used to open the midnight mass, hence the fancy solo.
Ahh, yes. You'd mentioned the choristering.
I thought I had. Whether or not 9 year olds should be professionals is another question again...
It's a great carol either way: minor key, full choir. As Christmas carols should be. /opinionated
Hear hear!
(I have spent pretty much all day writing - quite leisurely, but also a bitch of a chapter.) (Chapter 6, called 'Losing My religion'. It'll be in 3 parts and is full of 'There Are Always Consequences'. Just finished Crowley yelling at God & storming out. I am LOVING it, but it's hard work.)
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