Merry Christmas everyone.

[alfinyalcabo]

All the best Acido ,have a good one mate.

[Acido]

Cheers uncle Alf lol. 😜

I wish this could have been in better circumstances, and Im sure you know what I mean there. But all the best anyway to those on here who chat with me, I always appreciate that. 🎄 🎁 🍺

And hey, our next game is away at the Bastids, so I hope we can count on your support that day, I think we might need it.

[Vintage Claret]

Hey tahh for that Sub. 😃
Im sure it looked like an awful game the other night, but a few fans are now saying we look harder to beat at least, and if only we could start creating and putting some chances away.
The lad Josh Benson meanwhile, really hasn't found any form yet, do you want him back lol.

I would like to think we would consider a swap, take Benson back and let you have either Lennon or Stephens, or even give you both to get them off our wage bill.

[Swissclaret]

Joyeux Noël et bone Année to all. Let’s hope for better results in 2022 and a return to a normal life after all this Covid nonsense.

[Norder]

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Joyeux Noël et bone Année to all. Let’s hope for better results in 2022 and a return to a normal life after all this Covid nonsense.

no bonbons....?


am still waiting .



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[kritichris]

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no bonbons....?


am still waiting .

Toblerone would be acceptable.

[Norder]

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Toblerone would be acceptable.

I got one for you - Kriti.... but left it on the Matterhorn



fear not - Captain Cream will get you there...

Chocs away !

[Supersub6]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our friends (and enemies ) Have a great time whatever you are doing, stay safe and let those on duty in A&E and the emergency services have a quiet Christmas.

[sinkov]

I'm off to spend Christmas in deepest Yorkshire now, Merry Christmas to everyone who posts on here.

[Balanbam00]

No Christmas here. It is just the Christian Arabs that celebrate Christmas. But seeing there are many Arabs in Haifa. They do decorate the area called the German Colony.

The German Colony (HaMoshava HaGermanit) (Hebrew: המושבה הגרמנית‎, Arabic: المستعمرة الألمانية‎) was established in Ottoman Haifa in 1868 as a German Templer Colony in Palestine.
The Templers, a religious Protestant sect formed in southern Germany in the 19th century, settled in Palestine at the urging of their leader, Christoph Hoffmann, in the belief that living in the Holy Land would hasten the second coming of Christ.

The Templers built a colony in keeping with strict urban planning principles and introduced local industries that brought modernity to Palestine, which had long been neglected by the Ottomans. The population fluctuated between 300-400 settlers between 1870 and 1914.
When in World War I General Allenby conquered Palestine from the Ottomans, the German colonists were regarded as enemy aliens. Many of the colonists were recruited for the units of the German Imperial Army, which fought together with the army of the Ottoman ally against the British conquest. The Britons entered Haifa and the colony only after the end of the fighting. Thus the colonists in Haifa were not deported to Egypt, as were the colonists of other, more southern colonies

In 1937, 34% of the Templers were card-carrying members of the Nazi party. On King George VI's Coronation Day in 1937, all the Templer colonies flew the swastika flag. At the start of World War II colonists with German citizenship were rounded up by the British and sent, together with Italian and Hungarian enemy aliens, to internment camps in Waldheim and Bethlehem of Galilee. 661 Templers were deported to Australia via Egypt on July 31, 1941, leaving 345 in Palestine.

Christmas in the German Colony in Haifa



The photo is not a special shot, poor quality, just so you have the idea