Mikasister Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 13 hours ago, Hero said: Words fail me. Chocolate orange mayonnaise. MAYONNAISE!! 13 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said: That sounds disgusting! Yuck. I like chocolate orange and I like mayo but together?! NO!!! That's just wrong. I did actually see this on tv this morning and there is a competition to win a jar of it! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinyLove_CJ Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 This is Mika's crazy camel world and we're just living in it! Seeing as camels are seen as Christmassy animals I thought I'd share this story! 😁 Runaway Camel in Kansas https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10291697/Runaway-camel-causes-chaos-breaking-free-live-drive-nativity-scene.html Video: YouCut_20211210_203401349.mp4 It didn't want to be in a nativity, the camel wanted to take part in a Mika concert instead! 🤣 🐫 🐪 🐫 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 1 hour ago, TinyLove_CJ said: This is Mika's crazy camel world and we're just living in it! Seeing as camels are seen as Christmassy animals I thought I'd share this story! 😁 Runaway Camel in Kansas https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10291697/Runaway-camel-causes-chaos-breaking-free-live-drive-nativity-scene.html Video: YouCut_20211210_203401349.mp4 4.35 MB · 0 downloads It didn't want to be in a nativity, the camel wanted to take part in a Mika concert instead! 🤣 🐫 🐪 🐫 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikasister Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 On 11/28/2021 at 3:33 PM, Prisca said: I always had Advent calendars like that as a child. I liked the Advent calendars, but not really the chocolate inside. Yes, even good Swiss chocolate couldn't convince me as a child. Muy daughter has an Advent calendar with beauty products and make up inside 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 In our village they have decorated the traffic bollards with various pantomime characters, including Aladdin, Captain Hook, the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella (with pumpkin and mice) a witch, Jack and the Beanstalk, a good fairy, Red Riding Hood, and Puss in Boots 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Celeste Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 (edited) I've always loved the Advent tradition (it comes from attending Waldorf/Steiner schools as a child). I haven't done the calendar or the chocolate in a while though. Pretty much my only nod to Advent these days is making my own wreath, with candles, miniature animals, crystals, flowers, rainbows, whatever I feel like putting into it. I also love celebrating all 12 days of Christmas, which takes the pressure off just having the one day. On a related but slightly different note, I just posted a Christmas/Mika mashup poem under General Chin-Wagging. If it makes more sense to add it to this thread, by all means do so. I'm brand-new to this site and still getting used to general posting etiquette. So far I'm loving all the comments I've been reading - what a great community Mika seems to have built up over the years. Edited December 18, 2021 by Aki Celeste 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 I think your poem deserves its own thread, so I'll just post the link 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giraffeandy Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Christmas aloe vera 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinyLove_CJ Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 hour ago, giraffeandy said: Christmas aloe vera I love this! Succulents are my favourite plants, I've been trying to convince my mum to get a 4ft cactus to decorate for Christmas instead of a tree but she's having none of it! 😅 Also your Pusheen dinocat is doing an excellent job at protecting your CD collection! (I spot Mika at the top!) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giraffeandy Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 22 minutes ago, TinyLove_CJ said: I love this! Succulents are my favourite plants, I've been trying to convince my mum to get a 4ft cactus to decorate for Christmas instead of a tree but she's having none of it! 😅 Also your Pusheen dinocat is doing an excellent job at protecting your CD collection! (I spot Mika at the top!) Cool, I'd love to decorate a huge palm tree. I forgot that all MFCers are detectives (and sometimes even stalkers ). Unfortunately, I don't use this CD shelf a lot (only for "handmade" CDs for digital releases like Live at Brooklyn Steel or Versailles) because it's near the window and the sun used to make the covers lighter so I have my CD collection on a shelf that is better protected from the sun. Fun fact - I have there a Pusheen too. (But Mika has his own special shelf...). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Finally put our tree up - I decided on a red/gold/green colour scheme this year, only to discover I had no red or gold or green tinsel Hope I can track some down before Christmas (local shops seem to be out of tinsel ) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Tuesday 21 December - the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, marking the start of the winter season and also the day with the least daylight hours. So good news, after today it starts getting lighter again in the evenings! OK it's only a few minutes difference, but it builds up and signals the approach of spring! Yay!! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinyLove_CJ Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 7 hours ago, Hero said: Tuesday 21 December - the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, marking the start of the winter season and also the day with the least daylight hours. So good news, after today it starts getting lighter again in the evenings! OK it's only a few minutes difference, but it builds up and signals the approach of spring! Yay!! Today is actually one of my favourite days of the year, as someone who suffers from SAD (and not just in winter!), I always look forward to seeing the changes in the sunset times on the weather reports. It's only a little thing but it makes me so happy!! 🌞 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Celeste Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 4 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said: Today is actually one of my favourite days of the year, as someone who suffers from SAD (and not just in winter!), I always look forward to seeing the changes in the sunset times on the weather reports. It's only a little thing but it makes me so happy!! 🌞 SAD-ists unite! Oh wait, that came out wrong... What I mean to say is, I never thought about it that way before, but I think this is part of the reason why I look forward to the solstice so much myself. It brings some sense of structure and the possibility of change to the dark days of winter, rather than feeling completely bogged down by it. I actually tend to feel more joy during the winter than in the summer sometimes - maybe because it's the opposite, where the days are growing shorter? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinyLove_CJ Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 2 hours ago, Aki Celeste said: It brings some sense of structure and the possibility of change to the dark days of winter, rather than feeling completely bogged down by it. I actually tend to feel more joy during the winter than in the summer sometimes - maybe because it's the opposite, where the days are growing shorter? I know what you mean, I can now look forward to Spring, my favourite season! I do like Summer but SAD can affect me then too, I can't stand heatwaves (which are rare in the UK but do happen!), and towards the end of Summer my stupid brain is already thinking about the dark days to come. Then my mood can change so much! I just want constant daylight, is that too much to ask? 😅 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Celeste Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 3 minutes ago, TinyLove_CJ said: I know what you mean, I can now look forward to Spring, my favourite season! I do like Summer but SAD can affect me then too, I can't stand heatwaves (which are rare in the UK but do happen!), and towards the end of Summer my stupid brain is already thinking about the dark days to come. Then my mood can change so much! I just want constant daylight, is that too much to ask? 😅 Heat waves are the worst. I'm sensitive enough to warm temperatures that even when there isn't a heat wave going on (they are relatively rare where I live too, in New England), it throws off my sleep cycle and turns me into a zombie pretty much all summer long. Take that part of it out and keep the sunshine, and I'd have a much better time. Maybe I should've stayed in California when I had the chance... but then I'd miss out on the changing leaves and the snow! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prisca Posted December 24, 2021 Author Share Posted December 24, 2021 I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinyLove_CJ Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 2 hours ago, Prisca said: I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. If you hear a heavier hoof sound on your roof tonight it might just be Santa Mika with his Christmas camel! 🐫 😁 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Ko Kolkowska Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 2 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said: If you hear a heavier hoof sound on your roof tonight it might just be Santa Mika with his Christmas camel! 🐫 😁 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 11.50pm? That's close enough. I'm opening the Quality Street. Green triangles, purple brazils and orange creams are my faves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TinyLove_CJ Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 If my local supermarket has lemons in next week I'm making a New Year lucky piglet! 🍋 🐖 This is what they look like: I think the idea is to leave it out somewhere on New Year's eve and if it's still holding the penny in the morning then it will bring you good luck! (at least that's what my friend said 😅) If I do make one I'll be sure to take a picture! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Celeste Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 1 hour ago, TinyLove_CJ said: I think the idea is to leave it out somewhere on New Year's eve and if it's still holding the penny in the morning then it will bring you good luck! (at least that's what my friend said 😅) I was wondering what the point of making a lemon piglet might be, let alone who thought up the idea. Super cute tradition, and one I'd never heard of until now! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veronique B Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 A bit of Mika in one of my Christmas presents 🥰 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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