Didn't it look like fun? You could imagine the people of England would celebrate Christmas in such a way, dancing around like they're in a squaredance, with someone playing the violin like a fiddle. Yes, i agree - The dearest day in all the year, December the 25th!!!
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shareI rather like Christmas Eve myself....
As one of the people of England I can tell you that no one celebrated Christmas like that until Dickens put it back on the map. It had been lying dormant as a festival since the time of the Commonwealth when it was banned and was not celebrated with such a high level of interest until 'A Christmas Carol' was published in 1843. The effect of that was to kick start Christmas and establish some of the images we still associate with a modern celebration today - snowy scenes, family celebrations, coaches etc
shareBeautiful film, beautiful music! Of course this film romanticizes it all, but so what. It is a fantasy, and a lovely one at that ...
shareThat scene was good. Very evocative of a bygone time. I like the liveliness of the 'December 25th' song. Apart from that one, the songs haven't stayed with me.
share"Thank you very much" is one that has always stayed with me. I often do that stupid thing when someone does something and I will break into the first few words singing "Thank you very much", much to people's (understandable) annoyance.
Let's pray the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C.S Lewis
I would give anything to have been there!
shareOK but there's no Boxing Day. You're back to work at 9 after Christmas Day and you'll work through until 7, six days a week. Sunday you're in church but the afternoon's your own. You'll live with your family in one room on an apprentices wages. If you haven't got a family you can live at Fezziwig's under the counter in the shop. It's winter so prepare for low temperatures- so cold the Thames will freeze over for weeks at a time and prepare for the London 'particulars' - the smog of pollution that hangs over the city and stays all day meaning it never gets light properly.That means if you go out you'll need to watch for the deep ridges of carriage tracks in the thick mud on the streets - mud mixed with human slops that is. It's very easy to fall over.You'll never be really well, you could easily get cholera and probably won't live beyond age 26. Still, if you're with a good employer you might get Christmas Day off.
Sorry, I was forgetting. You wanted to go back to London, 1843. OK, prepare the transmission beam and button your coat up ! Could be nippy ;-)
YES, it did! I think that every year I watch it. It always makes me wish I was either part of the cast or teleported back to around 1800 to find a party like it! :)
shareI want the lyrics to all these songs so that I can sing them.
sharewell just get on the net.they're not hard to find. You should also read Pip's arriving in London in Great Expectations for a description of the capital as it was in those times.Alternatively, if you don't fancy that, read Pickwick Papers for the Christmas description to beat them all and one that gave rise to this book in the first place.
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