#boxing

When I was growing up, we'd wake up to a stocking on our beds that we could open as soon as we woke up. Which had lil stocking filler gifts etc in from santa. And then we would get ready for church. We'd go pick up my nonna, and go to the Christmas Mass that morning. Then go back home after and mum would start cooking the Christmas meal. We'd have music playing and we'd open the gifts that were under the tree from mum and dad, any other gifts from family members sent to us. And also more gifts from santa haha (obviously all by mum and dad but we saw them as seperate because we didn't know any different haha). Then we'd have the Christmas meal, and relax, or play games etc :). Usually my older siblings would travel down and spend it with us, or come down on the boxing day to spend it with us. And we'd have more gift exchanges.

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My dad was also a part time DJ so every Christmas was party time to the max haha. Lights, lazers, bubble machines, you name it haha. And then again on new years :). I have many lovely memories at Christmas growing up.

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Yeah there are some odd regional traditions.
🔔 In Dewsbury they start ringing a church bell (the bell that Black Tom de Soothill once presented the church with as penance for murdering his servant) at 10am and therafter once for each year since the year 0. This must be a nightmare for local residents.
🏰 From Clifford’s Tower in York they hang mistletoe, if a woman stands underneath it it means she wants to be kissed by anyone passing by. (You’re still allowed to fire crossbows in York by the way, providing that you’re shooting at a Scottish person. Conversely, 45 minutes away in Hull, crossbows have been banned since the 1500s.)
🎼 In Dungworth xmas carols are only sung by locals in a local pub ever since carolling was banned in churches hundreds of years ago by Puritans. There’s also a local pub we used to go to for meals (its name escapes me, I think it’s in or near the village of Goodmanham, where a Temple of Odin lies buried beneath the local church) that does public carolling in the pub, and I wonder if this is rooted in the same tradition. Furthermore, the Yorkshire villages of Castleton, Oughtibridge, Bradfield, Ecclesfield and Worrall all have a 200 year old tradition of pub carol singing, and all have their own Christmas carols unique to that village.
🐴 Every Christmas Eve in Richmond marketplace a person wearing a horses head is sung to by a group of huntsmen who then ‘bring it to life’ with hunting sticks and a horn.
🌞 In York Every 21st December (usually the date of Yule or the Winter Solstice) the Sheriff is accompanied around the city by the York Waits playing music. The procession ends with a speech at the Mansion House.
🐠 On Boxing Day at Flamborough Head, eight fishermen perform a sword dance on the high street.
💈 On the common land of Beverley Westwood at Solstice Dawn or Dusk (winter and summer) , local Morris sides often meet to dance at The Black Tower, weather and other restrictions permitting. I have been to this myself, and danced at dawn. Beer and music is to be had in a local pub afterwards.
🍎 During the Christmas Day service at Ripon Cathedral, visitors and parishioners are each given the gift of an apple, a custom that began in Mediaeval times.
⚽️ In Scarborough on Boxing Day the 150-year-old tradition of Firemen versus Fishermen having a football (soccer) match on the beach continues. (I do not know if women can be members of either team, something for me to investigate).
🔥 On 31st December a Viking Fire Festival takes place at Flambrough, with fireballs and the traditional burning of a Viking longship, something that’s practiced in a number of towns in the UK with Viking heritage.
🦃 This year as you tuck into your turkey, give thanks to William Strickland, born on the Yorkshire coast, who brought the bird back to England in 1526. It became a popular Christmas food during the Victorian era.
🧀 for over 100 yers now, Yorkshire folk have enjoyed a slice of cheese with their xmas cake

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Let me write to you in English, if you understand what is at stake, you can answer. If not, just don't worry. Why can't I write in Russian? because there is one inadequate here who asks for an intimate relationship. If I refuse intimacy, he, as inadequate, writes about "killing his parents", and about the fact that he is engaged in boxing. A person behaves quite inadequately, and because of this, I simply cannot write in Russian, because he always finds me, and if he doesn’t write some kind of vulgarity, then he will switch to personal insults and call you names in different ways, for example that you are pimply, even if there are no acne, that you are fat as a pig, and makes you dress like a prostitute, if you say that you don’t wear it, he goes on personal insults, although before that he hinted that he wanted a blowjob and other vulgar things that made him sick. I've seen everything in my life, believe me! this beast writes nasty things anonymously, he can’t write insults or say personally in person, because he knows what he can get in his terrible face, because I don’t think that this is a very handsome man who writes, he just shows off in order to increase his self-esteem and show that he smarter than everyone. And when you write to him in some foreign language, after that he gets dirty, because he cannot answer anything, because he is stupid and does not understand the language.
Therefore, to be honest, I told a lot in my life. And told many inadequate who does not understand. But this frame is somehow inadequate and most likely with the first group of disability. Adequate, I think I wouldn’t call a thin one who wears size L, and wouldn’t call him some kind of scary, etc., if the girl looks much prettier than this one.
This is life, and of course, sometimes you need to somehow survive with such people, because this person himself does not know anything, and at the same time he comes up with illnesses that do not correspond to me.

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Перед Новым годом , когда в Англии был Boxing Day в самом разгаре , после одного из туров , мне приснился сон …

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Я играл за Ливерпуль . Настолько реально , что ощущал вибрацию кричалок фанатов . Да ещё в нападении !!! Вся игра во сне , была в штрафной соперника . Сразу скажу , не видел ни Салаха ни Мане )

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Там блистал только я ) Я забил покер !!! И забивал просто великолепные голы , слёта , ножницами , рыбкой … чудеса творил короче , неимоверные )) Я забивал , трибуны ревели взрываясь .

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Но , не всё так прелестно было в этом сне . Каждый забитый мною гол отменяли !

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А всё потому , что в углу поля , возле флажка стоял болбой ( который подаёт мячи ) , противный на вид мальчишка и когда я наносил удар , он тупо бросал мяч на поле , из за чего гол отменяли .

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И после каждого отменённого гола , я смотрел на него , а он на меня . Не знаю о чём думал он , но я думал : сучёнок рыжий , свали и не порти мой звёздный час !!))

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Я тогда проснулся с непонятным ощущением , с одной стороны восхищение и с другой огромное разочарование .

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Yeah there are some odd traditions. Too many to write here, but here are a few:
🔔 In Dewsbury they start ringing a church bell (the bell that Black Tom de Soothill once presented the church with as penance for murdering his servant) at 10am and therafter once for each year since the year 0. This must be a nightmare for local residents.
🏰 From Clifford’s Tower in York they hang mistletoe, if a woman stands underneath it it means she wants to be kissed by anyone passing by. (You’re still allowed to fire crossbows in York by the way, providing that you’re shooting at a Scottish person. Conversely, 45 minutes away in Hull, crossbows have been banned since the 1500s.)
🎼 In Dungworth xmas carols are only sung by locals in a local pub ever since carolling was banned in churches hundreds of years ago by Puritans. There’s also a local pub we used to go to for meals (its name escapes me, I think it’s in or near the village of Goodmanham, where a Temple of Odin lies buried beneath the local church) that does public carolling in the pub, and I wonder if this is rooted in the same tradition. Furthermore, the Yorkshire villages of Castleton, Oughtibridge, Bradfield, Ecclesfield and Worrall all have a 200 year old tradition of pub carol singing, and all have their own Christmas carols unique to that village.
🐴 Every Christmas Eve in Richmond marketplace a person wearing a horse’s head is sung to by a group of huntsmen who then ‘bring it to life’ with hunting sticks and a horn.
🌞 In York Every 21st December (usually the date of Yule or the Winter Solstice) the Sheriff is accompanied around the city by the York Waits playing music. The procession ends with a speech at the Mansion House.
🐠 On Boxing Day at Flamborough Head, eight fishermen perform a sword dance on the high street.
💈 On the common land of Beverley Westwood at Solstice Dawn or Dusk (winter and summer) , local Morris sides often meet to dance at The Black Tower, weather and other restrictions permitting. I have been to this myself, and danced at dawn. Beer and music is to be had in a local pub afterwards.
🍎 During the Christmas Day service at Ripon Cathedral, visitors and parishioners are each given the gift of an apple, a custom that began in Mediaeval times.
⚽️ In Scarborough on Boxing Day the 150-year-old tradition of Firemen versus Fishermen having a football (soccer) match on the beach continues. (I do not know if women can be members of either team, something for me to investigate).
🔥 On 31st December a Viking Fire Festival takes place at Flambrough, with fireballs and the traditional burning of a Viking longship, something that’s practiced in a number of towns in the UK with Viking heritage.
(Pic: Solstice Dawn on Beverley Westwood. By me.)

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1. I’m 25
2. I’m from County Durham, England
3. I have one brother and one sister
4. I have two nephews
5. One of my favorite things to do is read
6. Right now, I’m reading about Buddhism
7. One thing I cannot live without is my mobile
8. Something I’d love to get rich by doing full-time is drawing
9. If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia
10. I’d most like to be remembered for being a good, caring person
11. If I won the lottery, the first things I’d buy would be a car for my mam
12. One thing I’m very afraid of is moths
13. If I could get paid to blog about anything, I’d write about books
14. My favourite movie franchise is Harry Potter
15. I love Nando’s
16. My least favourite sport to watch is tennis
17. My favourite sports to watch are football, boxing and ufc
18. I have been with my girlfriend for nearly 8 years
19. One of my nicknames is Tootey
20. I had fun doing this, feel free to ask any more questions
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Hm... la verdad es que no sé definirme de ninguna de las maneras. Nunca he sabido hacerlo. Quizá porque, aunque no lo parezca en ocasiones, soy una persona muy hermética.
Veamos... a primer golpe de vista parezco alguien tranquila y algo ausente de lo que la rodea. Pero, soy puro nervio. Mi cabeza es de esas que no da tregua ni un solo minuto.
Me gusta estar siempre ocupada haciendo lo que sea porque necesito llegar agotada a la noche. Soy bastante inconstante con mis pasiones.... Igual leo tres libros en una semana que no los miro en cinco meses.
Mi deporte favorito es la esgrima, y me encantan el kick boxing y la danza aérea. Me pirro por aprender a tirarme en paracaídas y a escalar, pero por el momento no va a poder ser.
Y hasta aquí te puedo contar por hoy. No estoy acostumbrada y me temo que mi mente se ha bloqueado.

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