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With the greatest respect RosieH and I do of course regard you as a queen of your sex and everything, but uppus buttus cum coconutus if that's the greatest Christmas song ever.


The greatest Christmas song is A Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues, it is so because it can be heard at any time of year and still be enjoyed for the fine song it is, but heard in December it becomes 'of the season'.

Bleak, hopeful, argumentative, joyful, optimistic and with a tune that you lends itself to dancing a woman around the floor and sending her skirts a-skirling.


With added NYPD choir. What more could a person want from a Christmas song?

I love singing in Latin:


Remember this little ditty?


"Veni Creator Spiritus,

mentes tuorum visita,

imple superna gratia

quae tu creasti pectora" (sang while flouncing around the kitchen island in the light of a Diptyque candle, glass of Chablis in hand...)

I remember some psuedo-latin quotes from my mis-spent youth...


Nil desperandum carborundum illegitimo = don't let the bar studs grind you down.


Non seductress asbestos = F&?k you I'm fireproof.


The only Latin song I remember at school started:- Gaudi our mus igitor juveness dom suomuss.... I never understood a word but enjoyed the tune and singing those weird lyrics in a monkey hear, monkey sing, fashion.


Apologies to all the studious ones reading this who recognise the lamentable phonetic style, Latin mis-spelling.

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