midwinter

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The Winter solstice was last night, now things might start to get warmer!

willowgirl @willowgirl (188) 22 Dec 09

Last night was the winter solstice or Midwinter as some like to call it. It is the shortest day of the year which means today for the first time the days become longer again! More light to your days! :) I wish I had done...

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Dec.22nd, Let's have some dumplings

yiskylee @yiskylee (140) • China 22 Dec 07

Dec.22nd is the midwinter,today's night is the longest in the northern hemisphere.It's our Chinese custom to eat Dumplings(Jiao Zi) today. I'm a ungraduate in Beijing.I wait almost half an hour to have my dumplings(you know...

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Its too early for Christmas decorations!

nancygibson @nancygibson (3736) • France 13 Nov 06

Two houses in my street have their decoratiosn up already. I think thats awful and I hate it so much! We decorate about the 17th or 18th of December, end even then I would prefer to do it on Yule eve and only keep it up until...

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Is Christmas Over-commercialised?

nancygibson @nancygibson (3736) • France 9 Nov 06

Personally I think it is. I'm not in this instance talking about the religious festival of Christmas, I'm talking about the wider secular midwinter festival that rather more people celebrate, coming together as a family to share a...

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Let's Work on Peace

AamerAbbas @AamerAbbas (385) • Pakistan 30 Oct 06

Peace on Earth In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter, long ago. Our God, heaven cannot hold...

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