Is it just me or is Santa on a bit of a go slow this year? I am sure that he's been in Italy round about 8.30 or 9.00 in previous years but he's only just stopped off in Rome.
We are ready for him now and Anna is just waiting her instruction to go to bed from the trackers.
We have left a bottle of water and some home made mince pies and cheese for Santa and some special food for the reindeer, made by crushing weetabix with little glittery stars. I wonder what Nigella would make of that.
She has also warned little Powder Puff, her hamster, that she may be disturbed tonight when Santa comes to call.
It looks like my poor husband is coming down with a horrid lurgy, which is all a bit too much deja vu from last year.
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Showing posts with label Santa Claus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santa Claus. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Santa on top of the world
NORAD have now posted the video of Santa flying over Mount Everest.
The report says that the reindeer eat healthy vegetables all year to give them the strength to fly through the cold.
So, there you are, if you, too want to fly over the highest peaks, you know what you have to do. I suspect it would have to be more than 5 a day, though.
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The report says that the reindeer eat healthy vegetables all year to give them the strength to fly through the cold.
So, there you are, if you, too want to fly over the highest peaks, you know what you have to do. I suspect it would have to be more than 5 a day, though.
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Tracking Santa Live Blog 2
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We've had a short interlude for a visit from family and are now back to our occasional posting about Santa's journey. Please don't think I'm going to sit here shackled to the laptop when there is stuffing and mince pies to make.
We got the promised video from the Great Wall of China and Anna offered the information, which I'd never heard, that Rudolph is Dasher's second cousin. You learn something new every day.
Santa is now apparently in Kazakhstan, edging ever closer to here.
The NORAD site ties in to Google Earth so that you can actually go and watch Santa fly live through the skies. Oh the wonder:-)
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We've had a short interlude for a visit from family and are now back to our occasional posting about Santa's journey. Please don't think I'm going to sit here shackled to the laptop when there is stuffing and mince pies to make.
We got the promised video from the Great Wall of China and Anna offered the information, which I'd never heard, that Rudolph is Dasher's second cousin. You learn something new every day.
Santa is now apparently in Kazakhstan, edging ever closer to here.
The NORAD site ties in to Google Earth so that you can actually go and watch Santa fly live through the skies. Oh the wonder:-)
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Live Blog - Tracking Santa
Who says the US military has no good purpose?
Every year they track Santa's progress round the world on Christmas Eve and it has become something of a tradition in our house to follow him on his travels.
My daughter is not a child who likes to be early in her bed at night - but as soon as the warning comes that children in Europe should go to bed, she's off there like a shot.
I thought it might be fun to do a bit of a live blog - although we've started late. He's done Australia and New Zealand and is currently in South Korea.
Update 14:53 Santa now in Pyongyang. Hope the brutal North Korean regime don't shoot him down. Maybe the US is trialling cloaking technology or something to make him invisible:-)
15:10 He seems to have survived the totalitarian regime in NK - now at the Great Wall of China. We usually get a video from there......
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Every year they track Santa's progress round the world on Christmas Eve and it has become something of a tradition in our house to follow him on his travels.
My daughter is not a child who likes to be early in her bed at night - but as soon as the warning comes that children in Europe should go to bed, she's off there like a shot.
I thought it might be fun to do a bit of a live blog - although we've started late. He's done Australia and New Zealand and is currently in South Korea.
Update 14:53 Santa now in Pyongyang. Hope the brutal North Korean regime don't shoot him down. Maybe the US is trialling cloaking technology or something to make him invisible:-)
15:10 He seems to have survived the totalitarian regime in NK - now at the Great Wall of China. We usually get a video from there......
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Come on, Miss, where is your Christmas spirit?
A primary school teacher in Edinburgh has caused controversy by agreeing that Santa Claus does not exist.
When you discuss these matters, I feel it's always important to respect both believing and questioning children. All will come to their own conclusions in good time and surely it's best to let that process happen naturally.
For me, the truth of these matters is simple. Santa Claus comes to those children who believe in him. If any child stops believing in him, then of course their parents have to step in so that they don't find an empty stocking on Christmas mornning. I have said to my daughter that if she ever doubts, then she should give me the heads up so that I know that I have to buy her presents.
What worries me, though, is that this teacher, who probably has a perfectly good service record, might now be victimised, perhaps forced into the retirement the Evening News says she is close to. If it were for this reason alone, that would be silly.
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When you discuss these matters, I feel it's always important to respect both believing and questioning children. All will come to their own conclusions in good time and surely it's best to let that process happen naturally.
For me, the truth of these matters is simple. Santa Claus comes to those children who believe in him. If any child stops believing in him, then of course their parents have to step in so that they don't find an empty stocking on Christmas mornning. I have said to my daughter that if she ever doubts, then she should give me the heads up so that I know that I have to buy her presents.
What worries me, though, is that this teacher, who probably has a perfectly good service record, might now be victimised, perhaps forced into the retirement the Evening News says she is close to. If it were for this reason alone, that would be silly.
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