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Some of you may have heard this before, but I've finally got round to uploading the Norfolk Broads version of Santa Baby to YouTube.

Hopefully, I'll manage to put a better video together in time for next Christmas .... this was thrown together very quickly but will do for now!

Happy Christmas!

Carol

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Courtesy of Robert Louis Stevenson & Sting

All day we tacked and tacked between the North Head and the South;

All day we hauled the frozen sheets, to 'scape the storm's wet mouth;

All day as cold as charity, in bitter pain and dread,

For very life and nature we tacked from head to head.

We gave the South a wider berth, for there the tide-race roared;

But every tack we made we brought the North Head close aboard.

We saw the cliffs and houses and the breakers running high,

And the coastguard in his garden, with his glass against his eye.

The frost was on the village roofs as white as ocean foam;

The good red fires are burning bright in every longshore home;

The windows sparkled clear, and the chimneys volleyed out;

And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel went about.

The bells upon the church were rung with a mighty jovial cheer;

For it's just that I should tell you how (of all days in the year)

This day of our adversity was blessed Christmas morn,

And the house above the coastguard's was the house where I was born.

And well I knew the talk they had, the talk that was of me,

Of the shadow on the household and the son that went to sea;

And O the wicked fool I seemed, in every kind of way,

To be here and hauling frozen ropes on blessed Christmas Day.

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Hi everybody

Well Christmas isn't happening this year for us with my uncle in hospital things going on at home builders to pay selling the boat... We normaly have family round & friends who don't have no family to have Christmas with come and have Christmas & new year with us ... But dads been called into work upto & over Christmas plus Christmas Day his birthday New Year's Eve plus New Year's Day ... So nothing is realy going to happen told sis to go spend it with her BF my uncle got move to hospital in southport so not down the road anymore...

But I wish you all a merry Christmas & cracking new year :wave

Jonny

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Hi everybody

Well Christmas isn't happening this year for us with my uncle in hospital things going on at home builders to pay selling the boat... We normaly have family round & friends who don't have no family to have Christmas with come and have Christmas & new year with us ... But dads been called into work upto & over Christmas plus Christmas Day his birthday New Year's Eve plus New Year's Day ... So nothing is realy going to happen told sis to go spend it with her BF my uncle got move to hospital in southport so not down the road anymore...

But I wish you all a merry Christmas & cracking new year :wave

Jonny

Well its going to be a fairly quiet one for us too with a newborn baby just home, but if your passing this way Jonny, your most welcome to a hot dinner and a drink or two, its not nice being on your own when everyone else is celebrating around you :)

Julz :wave

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