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Abysmal Christmas
Posted: 21 November 2008 Word Count: 94 Summary: Very much a flash, produced this morning. A rant - best if ranted!
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Season of phoney sentiment: families flock together whatever the weather or whether or not old grudges are spent. Not mine. I'm banished - me and my brood - despite offers of food and booze. We shouldn't have complained about commodification or aunty's teary sentimentality at Noel's House party or have insisted on breastfeeding infants whenever they were needing! No matter it's Christmas - the grandfolks were embarrassed. So this Advent, dysfunctional cuz, our days will be spent kicking up our own special buzz not thinking of you and the stramash of your abysmal Christmas.
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Nella at 16:25 on 21 November 2008
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Season of phoney sentiment |
| It seems that is what Christmas has deteriorated to. Well said.
I bet you felt better after you got that out of your system!
Robin
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V`yonne at 18:36 on 21 November 2008
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Does nobody loke Christmas? I don't know the words cuz and stramash??? Explain?
That's just like it old and young getting on each other's nerves - families being fussy! Many's the row!!
Thank you.
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joanie at 19:20 on 21 November 2008
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Hi Barbara. I do like both the end and internal rhymes. This is like a sudden outpouring of everything you have been bottling up - true 'Flash' I suppose!
I understood 'cuz' to be 'cousin', but I don't know 'stramash'.
Enjoyed! A good response.
joanie
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BaMc at 19:50 on 21 November 2008
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Thanks for the feedback! Yes, it was cathartic! 'cuz' as Joanie says is 'cousin' and 'stramash'(noun) means uproar(Scotland) commotion, or rowdy dispute.
Barbara
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V`yonne at 20:51 on 21 November 2008
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I see! ; Strawmash! Now that shows the difference twixt Ulster and Scotland
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tractor at 16:34 on 22 November 2008
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Hi,
nice poem. Sometimes its good to be ostracised! Personally I love Christmas with my immediate family but too many additional guests, or the wrong ones, can result a nightmare.
Cheers
Mark
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DJC at 17:31 on 22 November 2008
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Excellent, Barbara - this flows very smoothly - unlike Christmas for many of us, it seems!
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BaMc at 19:35 on 22 November 2008
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Thanks Mark and Darren. We don't mind being ostracised, Mark, well my husband doesn't! I would have like the opportunity to say 'Thanks, but no thanks.'! And we do have a lovely Xmas together - our wee family.
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Iagoybardd at 00:55 on 23 November 2008
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Hi Barbara
Having been dragged along to my sister's in-laws for Christmas, as a form of moral support, I can appreciate some of the sentiment here. Although, to tell the truth, I always enjoyed those get-togethers more than my sister did!
Well done!
James
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