Tag Archives: Christmas

Cley Advent Windows 2021

Posted on December 17, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

These are some of the Advent windows in our village. A total of 45 windows are decorated to make our village look like an oversized Advent calendar. … Cley Advent Windows 2021 What a lovely idea talked about in the … Continue reading →

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Treating your holiday delivery people right

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

I saw this in my Twitter feed today and thought it was a wonderful idea. Pass it on❤️

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12 Days of Christmas Songs (#5) – “Barbara Allen”

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

“Barbara Allen” is a real downer of a song; no question about it. And it isn’t really a Christmas song, but I have always associated it with this time of year, dating from my first viewing of A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim … Continue reading →

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12 Days of Christmas Songs (#4) – “Silver Bells”

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Christmas shopping when I was young meant pausing at magical window displays while trundling along snowy sidewalks in heavy coats and boots between the fancy department stores and the Woolworth’s and Kresge’s five-and-dime stores. Tinsel, pine boughs, and strands of multicolored lights … Continue reading →

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12 Days of Christmas Songs (#3) – Handel’s Messiah

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Merry Christmas! For today’s post, I thought the most appropriate “song” might be Messiah, the most significant musical work ever composed about the life of Christ within the context of Biblical Old Testament prophecies about his birth and Gospels about his life, … Continue reading →

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12 Days of Christmas Songs (#2) – “Have a Merry Merry Merry Merry Christmas”

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

During my childhood in Ohio in the 1960s, my mom (and grandmother and great-grandmother, for that matter) were fans of Ruth Lyons, a pioneering Cincinnati radio and television personality who began her career in the earliest days of commercial radio in the 1920s. … Continue reading →

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12 Days of Christmas Songs (#1) – “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

The “Twelve Days of Christmas” is actually the 12-day period beginning on Christmas Day and ending on January 5th (the day before the day the three kings/Magi/wise men visited the Christ child, aka “Epiphany“). So I’m getting started a little early. Backstory: … Continue reading →

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No (Introductory) Christmas Lyric Left Behind

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Katherine Wikoff

“The sun is shining / The grass is green . . .”  Thus begins one of my favorite Christmas songs.  It continues: The orange and palm trees sway There’s never been such a day In Beverly Hills, L.A. If you don’t recognize … Continue reading →

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Christmas at Downton Abbey

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Katherine Wikoff

I try to buy a new CD of Christmas music every December, and here’s my choice for this year 🙂 Buying info and the Amazon description are here (with sample audio clips of all songs).

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Countdown to Downton Abbey – Cora’s YouTube Music Video

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Katherine Wikoff

Last year I wrote a series of “Countdown” posts in anticipation of Season 4 of Downton Abbey.  I had not intended to do the same this year, but yesterday I stumbled across something that was too fun not to share. So, first the … Continue reading →

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