With New Year’s Eve just three days away, Reader’s Digest looks into when the New Year’s kiss got its start. While the exact origin is unknown, the custom is often traced back to two winter festivals, one of which — not surprisingly — involved public drunkenness. Read more. https://flip.it/xpov_J #Culture#NewYear#NewYears#Holidays
If you’re searching for a great documentary to watch today, I highly recommend Muscle Shoals. After watching this, I’ve never been able to hear Chain Of Fools the same way.
#Baking my great-grandma’s famous poppyseed cake this afternoon. The house is warm from the oven and smells like cake - it’s a damn delight :blobhaj_heart:
Your standard issue blasters have been replaced by new, state-of-the-art Snowball Launchers.
Now you can bring a dash of seasonal merriment to the suppression of Communist Mutant Traitors!
Note: friendly fire is subject to disciplinary action.
Metrosideros red flower. Beautiful are the Metrosideros flowers that bloom in summer. Beautiful red color for Christmas and holidays. New on Redbubble > https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/155568306
Stuck in Melbourne on the way home. Storms everywhere. Having a holiday here courtesy of Virgin until Friday 😳 there are no flights back to Launceston until then! #holidays
Hiding outside the of the Boxing Day sales at Parramatta. Tired. Waiting for relatives to finish shopping. I am terrified of the crowds in many ways. #holidays#consumerism#covid
With #ClimateChange threatening the North Pole Workshop, Santa will phase out #coal use in naughty stockings. Instead, a volunteer brigade of ChristMoose will fill those stockings with a greener alternative fuel.
This one showed up in my neighbourhood on #Christmas morning. Santa’s got my number…
Whatever #winter#holidays you celebrate, be kind to the Earth and each other (or the #moose will fertilise your #trees )!
Greetings! Today my cousin who lives for finding out about the weirdest of the weird found in human culture, shared with me the Spanish Catalan tradition of the Caganer. And now you all know about it too! You're welcome and Happy #Holidays https://www.vox.com/2014/12/24/7417441/caganer-explained-nativity
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Happy Christmas Pops! While I know it's not a holiday we celebrated as I got older, it's now the 3rd Christmas without you and it sucks so bad!
I miss you more than words can ever say and I love you more than life itself. Holidays truly suck without you but I know you're looking over Bianca and I so all is well!