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Favorite holiday movies/shows: Father Christmas

Kelli M @spiderdust (14756) • San Jose, California 26 Nov 22

When I was much younger, one of my siblings brought home a book from the library called Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs. This was a story told in pictures, with very little dialogue, about a cranky Father Christmas who...

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Father Christmas and Covid-19

Fleur @Fleura (35092) • United Kingdom 1 Jan 21

A few days before Christmas, we all wrapped up warm and went for a stroll around the village to admire the Christmas lights. The various lights and Christmas displays seemed to be more prevalent than ever this year. There were...

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How could I resist?

Fleur @Fleura (35092) • United Kingdom 13 Dec 20

When we asked the girls if they had any suggestions for gifts they would like, they both mostly had several books that they were hoping for. But Little One - who isn’t all that little any more - also said she would like more...

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 4 Dec 18

Father Christmas (or 'Santa', if you prefer) has visited the local Garden Centre on Saturday and Sunday and already 114 young hopefuls have told him their dearest wishes and are feeling excited. I can report that NONE of them...

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Whatever will Father Christmas be asked to do next!??

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 18 Dec 17

As some of you may know, I become Father Christmas for a few hours at weekends and on some weekdays, too, at this season. Usually it involves a short interview with one or two children (and their parents or grandparents), to find...

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The car won't start!

LilyLoretta @LilyBeBack (1994) • United Kingdom 2 Dec 17

I got up this morning with an hour to spare, had a cup of tea and then rushed to get ready. Just as I was almost done my mam rang, I thought she was going to say she was here but she was ringing to tell me the car won't start...

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What decides us to become what we are?

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 20 Dec 16

Once upon a time a little girl of seven wrote a letter to Father Christmas asking him how he managed to do all the impossible things that he does in his journey round the world on Christmas Eve. She was so dissatisfied with the...

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Being Ho-Ho-Ho-Man

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 15 Dec 16

Today I have to attend a party of about 15 children. I need to don my beard, glasses and red cloak with hood so that I am no longer my ordinary self but the embodiment of 'the Spirit of Christmas', which is what is expected. I...

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Ditching the Sleigh!

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 28 Nov 16

Santa ditched his sleigh this year and has apparently magicked a popular model truck to full size just so he can arrive on time at a local garden centre, where he is holding court at weekends until Christmas. When he arrived at...

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Have you taught your children to believe in Father Christmas/Santa Claus?

Fleur @Fleura (35092) • United Kingdom 7 Dec 15

Have you convinced your children that Santa Claus is real? Have they written their letters to Father Christmas? This is something I have always felt uncomfortable about; we are supposed to teach our children to always tell the...

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Is Santa Coming Down Your Chimney?

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 28 Nov 15

Tomorrow I start my run up to Christmas. I have done this nearly every year now for about 10 years (I've actually lost count). Some years it has begun with a ride in the White Witch's sleigh from Narnia, one year it was in Herbie,...

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All Booked To See Santa

Paul Connor @mrtoffee (1522) 13 Nov 15

Sophie and Lily, like all children are crazy about Christmas and part of the Christmas tradition in our house is to go and see santa at the local mall. The mall has a really cool castle that put up every year and they are so good...

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Do you believe?

GreenMoo @GreenMoo (11833) 19 Nov 12

My youngest recently announced he no longer believes in Father Christmas. He says it has been me all along. I'm shattered. Do you believe in Father Christmas? Despite his new found knowledge that Father Christmas is really...

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in your country, what gets left out for Father Christmas

Galena @Galena (9110) 10 Dec 10

in the UK it's traditional to leave out a glass of sherry and a Mince Pie for father Christmas. with a carrot for the reindeer. in Discworld, they leave the Hogfather sherry and a Pork Pie. I gather that in America they...

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What are your earliest Christmas memories?

oldchem1 @oldchem1 (8132) 28 Nov 10

My daughter sent me this picture today of my two youngest grandchildren Isabelle (just 3) cuddling her 2 month old niece Olivia. Looking at the picture and thinking that although it is Olivia's first Christmas this Christmas will...

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Father Christmas and children

jugsjugs @jugsjugs (12967) 26 Oct 10

Some children do think that there is a santa, some children think that you have a hotline to tell santa what they want and if they have been good.My friend told my children that santa wants to know what they would like for...

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It's a tough job but someone's gotta do it!!

Humbug25 @Humbug25 (12540) 26 Dec 08

I find it really hard to work out a time to put the stocking at the bottom of my kid's beds. It must have been about 11pm when I told my kids that it really was time for them to turn off the dvds and go to sleep. I thought that...

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What is the Diffrerence between Santa Claus and Father Christmas?

doulaworks @doulaworks (1079) • United States 11 Dec 08

I have no clue what the difference is other than a lot of Euorpian countires call Santa Father christma. Or so I thought. Is there a difference? or is there some story behind Fahter Christmas? I know the story of Santa Claus, but...

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Do You Believe

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 20 Nov 08

I have a friend here who recently posted a discussion asking about ways to tell her children that Santa Claus is not real. I love this friend and I hate to see her misled. The truth of course is that Santa Claus, Father Christmas,...

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How I am going to tell my son that Father Christmas does not exist?

ronaldinu @ronaldinu (12422) • Malta 19 Nov 08

My eight year old son still believes that Father Christmas really exists. About three years ago he really wanted to call Santa’s and my father in law picked up the second telephone set and spoke to him as if he was Santa Claus. My...

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