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Talented Rob Knotts was shoehorned into his unusual Yuletide hobby . literally.
The former chair of Saddleworth parish council was serving with the RAF in Singapore more than 30 years ago he tried unsuccessfully to buy a shoehorn.
“So, I wondered if I could carve one,” said Rob who lives in Austerlands. “I found a piece of wood, borrowed a kitchen knife and with great satisfaction produced one.
“My early work covered small trinket dishes, then small animals and Welsh love spoons. In the 1980s I was stationed in Germany and exposed to wonderful wood carvings of Nativities, Weihnachtsmann (German Father Christmas) figures, folk figures and Christmas decorations.
Santa figures in the Philippines.
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Decorations start going up in September and the holiday fervor doesn t end until the first Sunday in January.
Many people hang up paper lanterns called paróls and eat a big family meal on Noche Buena, or Christmas Eve.
Some people in the Philippines celebrate Christmas for five months.
Decorations start going up in September and the holiday fervor doesn t end until the first Sunday in January.
Many people hang up paper lanterns called paróls and eat a big family meal on Noche Buena, or Christmas Eve.
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The regime stood out again.
Now, in the mornings, employees of housing and communal services pick out and hollow out white-red-white flags from under the ice on rivers and reservoirs. This is the know-how of the Belarusian protesters. With the onset of winter and frost, they came up with the idea of literally letting go of the white-red-white flags for free swimming. They freeze into the water overnight, and you have to sweat a lot to get them. Now, instead of sprinkling the paths with sand in the morning, the communal workers take hammers, crowbars, and hatchets in their hands and go to cut down flags from under the ice. And this is also a very troublesome business.
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