Comments on: New Polish Christmas Traditions

By: Breadphile

Breadphile — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:24:54 +0000

Thanks for the link. A tough generation. Snoek sandwiches, if, they were lucky.

By: island1

island1 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:40:49 +0000

I got it here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-495096/Britain-1947-Poverty-queues-rationing–resilience.html

The Daily Mail also fails to give the source.

By: Breadphile

Breadphile — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:16:26 +0000

Excellent image of a bread queue from years gone-by. Perhaps a futile question to ask a journalist, but could you list its source; I’d like to use it. Many thanks.

By: Ania

Ania — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:27:13 +0000

one thing is nice on the Island – the multitude of Christmas cards exchanged by everyone. They all landed next to my Advent wreath!

For now I’m stuck on the rock – the flishts and ferries are cancelled. Let’s hope it keeps snowing!

By: island1

island1 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:03:59 +0000

Bah! Humbug.

By: island1

island1 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:02:42 +0000

That was kind of scary!

Merry Christmas to you too. Try not to massacre too many British guys.

By: island1

island1 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:01:32 +0000

It’s a mind-reading robot: appendages behave according to your secret desires.

By: island1

island1 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:00:50 +0000

Good luck with that.

By: Bartek

Bartek — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:43:59 +0000

According to the definition, a regularly run blog is updated at least once a week. Sorry to say that Island, but this time you wanted to post something, only the idea was very vague…

Christmas gets earlier. That part makes sense, but you follow the same trend, for the past three weeks there was nothing else but the Christmas stuff here – fairs, gifts, the bizarre customs. We have now two Christmas Tides – first, commercial begins just after All Saints’ Day, steps up in the first day of December and ends on Boxing Day, the traditional one begins not earlier than a few days before Christmas and ends even on 2nd February. And the Christmas period is a wicked excuse not to work, I see it among my schoolmates. Last classes were held yesterday, but everybody complained they had had to stay after the weekend and demanded days off. Even Christmas Eve is a working day and let’s stick to it.

By: MaterialGirl

MaterialGirl — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:04:20 +0000

I’m going off for Christmas and New Year. Yesterday I got tragic news – on Sylwester time I have to accompany some british guy I haven’t never seen!!! It will be massacre.

My wishes at:

http://www.speakingsanta.com/?tk=TCxzSfqX