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This Week's Meaningless Topic (#68) (Dec 24)


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[NOTE. Tomorrow's Friday is Christmas Eve and many of us will be busy with holiday responsibilities. Therefore, I'm posting this week's topic a little early to give everyone time to respond. Ho Ho Ho!]

 

Hi all. I've been nostalgic this week, thinking about past Christmases spent far from home. Forum participants are widely traveled and no doubt have many interesting memories of Christmases celebrated in strange places. So this week, let's celebrate Christmases we spent far, far away.

 

THIS WEEK'S MEANINGLESS TOPIC: 

A. Where did you spend  your hottest Christmas? 

3,088 Desert Christmas Stock Photos, Pictures & Royalty-Free Images - iStock

 

B. Where did you spend your coldest Christmas?

Antarctic Postcard from the Field: Christmas in McMurdo

 

C. Where did you spend your wettest Christmas?

Underwater celebration ready for Christmas -- china.org.cn

 

D. Where did you spend your highest Christmas? (no drug stories allowed B))

Everest Basecamp Christmas New Year`s Trek + Optional Island Peak

 

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL THE MEANINGLESS TOPIC DENIZENS, AND A HEALTHY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

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Hottest: Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

Coldest: Horsham, Sussex (Snow 3' high everywere that year)

Wettest: London's East End (All roads flooded that year)

Highest: Basingstoke, Hampshire

 

Happy Christmas to all of you.  We've had to cancel our's this year due to covid!

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Perth, Western australia  Christmas day forcast:  43 c

                                           Boxing day                  :  44c 

The hottest ever recorded, for Chrismas day in Perth !!!! Outlook for the next week similar temps

                                 B)

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Nice one Roger.

Hottest in Brisbane (or it felt the hottest, very humid) late 90's. Don't know exact year.

Coldest in Rovaniemi Finland 2010. -19.

Wettest, Tweed Heads, very often. Hot and wet

Highest...spent my first 17yrs of my life in Harare Zimbabwe (formerly Salisbury) at 5000ft

Merry Christmas Rodger!

Thank you for your valuable contributions!

Cheers

Graeme :)

 

 

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4 hours ago, flyingfish55 said:

Taph,

 

With those locations I assume a Forces man? I completely forgot I spent Christmas in Belmopan in 1981 then departed a couple of days later to spend Hogmany in Beirut. Like you now a man of Kent.

Hey FF55, thanks for teaching me a new thing. I had never heard of Hogmanay before, but now I can "celebrate New Years in the Scottish manner." I am going to impress friends and neighbors here by wishing everyone a Happy Hogmanay this year :D.

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On 12/25/2021 at 2:43 AM, Taph said:

1. Hottest  Borneo

2. Coldest North Rhine Westphalia, crates of beer on the balcony froze solid

3. Wettest Belize   

4. Highest Mount Troodos in Cyprus

Taph - absolutely nothing to do with the question - But !!

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Hi John,

 I recognise the jimmy and the aerial farm behind you, A few of us went skiing up on the mountain and then drove the landrover down to the beach for a swim in the sea.

Looking at the gaiters and boots your wearing you were there before me, my time was 1974-75

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23 hours ago, John Heaton said:

Taph - absolutely nothing to do with the question - But !!

5712cypXroads.jpg

 

1 minute ago, Taph said:

Hi John,

 I recognise the jimmy and the aerial farm behind you, A few of us went skiing up on the mountain and then drove the landrover down to the beach for a swim in the sea.

Looking at the gaiters and boots your wearing you were there before me, my time was 1974-75

Just shows what a small world it is gents, amazing!

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5 minutes ago, Taph said:

Hi John,

 I recognise the jimmy and the aerial farm behind you, A few of us went skiing up on the mountain and then drove the landrover down to the beach for a swim in the sea.

Looking at the gaiters and boots your wearing you were there before me, my time was 1974-75

G'day Taph - 1956 - 1958 - and you were right about the ski-ing and a swim in the sea after

When they let Makarios out of jail in 57 - we spent many happy hours ski-ing on Olympus

I was stationed at The Episkopi cantonement after Suez.

Yesterday - I bought Larnaca airport on M/Place and took the Stearman for a flight up to Troodos

very clear

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