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The outside stalls at the St. Lawrence market have been taken over by assorted Yuletide frippery. I have no idea who buys half a dozen birch logs crudely nailed together to form some crude approximation to a reindeer but clearly there is a market for them. So too for umpteen different kinds of pine cone and assorted other tree giblets. It's a strange sight. It is though proof that the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness has breathed its last. The friendly bushel baskets of apples and pears have given way to the dread harbingers of winter.

Date: 2005-11-27 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blonde222.livejournal.com
well I like Christmas markets, so yah boo sucks Mr Scrooge.

Date: 2005-11-27 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
Yeah well you can have the blowing snow and the howling gale too.

Date: 2005-11-27 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com
I remember trying to explain to my Chinese ESL student what the whole reindeer thing was about and why they wore red floppy hats and had pointy leaves around their necks. I think I left her as befuddled as I was when she tried to explain to me the acts in the big Spring Festival variety show broadcast for Chinese New Year.

I know you'd rather just sip your thin gruel and wait for the ghosts to show up but I think building a gingerbread fortress and arming ourselves with clove-studded oranges and to pelt Salvation Army santas with would be more fun.

Date: 2005-11-27 04:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com
It isn't Advent yet. Christmas things are not supposed to start till Advent. It's a rule. Dammit. It's kind of odd that the mass secularization of Christmas has expanded its celebration.

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