A message from Santa Fardel

Reader Christian Fardel has sent this "live" card. Click the link below. You'll get a 1.5 MB PPS (Powerpoint) file with a picture which will come to life and deliver a charming Christmas message.

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[fardel]

This is the comment I wanted to make but I could not upload this file;
Thank you , Uncle Nury for doing it for me:

The spirit of Chistmas is this
:
a postcard from Mayotte ( Indian Ocean )
- sent by a friend , whom I did not see for a good while
- to me on the Caribbean
- forwarded to you , the rest of the world
- written in a language (French) which you do not know
-But a wonderful postacard which, in this case, everyone will understand
and ENJOY
- Even if the song is in Spanish

Merry Christmas to you all

[Angela]

El camino que lleva a Belén
baja hasta el valle que la nieve cubrió.
Los pastorcillos quieren ver a su Rey,
le traen regalos en su humilde zurrón
al Redentor, al Redentor.

pa rum pum pum pum
pa rum pum pum pum

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Feliz Navidad a todos!

[fardel]

How many languages do you know?

OOps ,Let me re-phrase my question

How many dozens of languages do you know?

[Angela]

LOL...

Mi abuelo, he descended from a Spanish friar that's why I am a catholic. I am genetically catholic. When he was alive, when I was a little girl, Spanish was spoken in the house. Mostly bad words.

[fardel]

Next to you, James Band looks like an amateur

[sej]

Fardel,

Perhaps a more appropriate question...

"How many people are you?"

[farah]

should have learnt French more seriously.

joyeuses fetes!

[farah]

hey guys since all of you give personalized home made gifts during Christmas i found a recipe which you can try and hand out.

Chocolate Pistachio Fudge @ Nigella's recipes

Ingredients:
350g/12oz dark chocolate, at least 70 per cent cocoa solids, chopped
1 x 397g/14oz can condensed milk
30g/1oz butter
pinch salt
150g/5¼oz unsalted pistachios, shells removed

Method
1. Place the chopped chocolate, condensed milk, butter and salt into a heavy-based pan over a low heat and stir until melted and well combined.
2. Place the nuts into a freezer bag and bash them with a rolling pin, until broken up into some large and some small pieces.
3. Add the nuts to the melted chocolate mixture and stir well.
4. Pour the mixture into a 23cm/9in square tray, smoothing the top with a wet palette knife.
5. Let the fudge cool, then refrigerate until set.
6. Cut into small pieces approximately 3cm x 2cm/1¼in x ¾in. Cutting 7 x 7 lines in the tin to give 64 pieces best achieves this.

ENJOY!!!

[TS]

My niece made this.

[fardel]

Thanks Farah
I shall ask my daughter to make one

[Angela]

TS, Is that frosty the wizard snowman?

here's my lil bit of snow in the tropical Singapore. Couple of little fingers have been there.

[TS]

Angela, I'm not sure who he is, but I know what he is.
My sister proudly told me that she had taught the dog to do its business in a shrubbery in a corner at the back of the garden.
She was wrong, so the snowman have about 4% dog-turds rolled up in him and we had to boil our gloves afterwards.
On the bright side, the garden is now clean and when the last bit of snowman melts, everything will be in a neat pile ready to be shovelled away.

[Angela]

There was a discussion here, some months back, about names and being asked about in at the airport. I just chatted with a good friend in facebook to greet her on her birthday, she was born on 25 december and aptly named Maria Christy Jesusa but I call her Mary Christmas Jesus. Needless to say, She's popular every december.