Have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

[Colonel White]

All the best guys and all the staff at Warlord

From yours truly

The Grumpy Colonel.

I will now be signing off until I return to work on the 9th January 2012

[carvel2]

Happy Christmas to you too Colonel : )

[Big Al]

Merry Christmas, Colonel. Enjoy the festivities and don't do anything I wouldn't!

[Centurion Dan]

Merry Yuletide Colonel!

[grant]

Merry Christmas!

[janner]

Ditto all round

[steharan]

Glad to see its not a bah humbug fest. Enjoy playing with little plastic soldiers everyone....

[clivethecelt]

Best wishes for a very peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

[Cubster]

We should all remember the true meaning of Christmas.

It's a pagan time of feasting and fun, celebrating the coming of winter, the end of the fighting season and a time of plenty after the gathering of the harvests, the slaughter of animals who can't be fed through the lean months and the general gobbling up of stuff that won't keep. It's a time for huddling together indoors and being with the family as the weather prevents travelling and roaming abroad looking for mischief.

Oh, and the Christian feast day to commemorate the birth of Jesus was moved forward five months in an attempt to obliterate existing religious festivals.

[mikeland]

Oh, and the Christian feast day to commemorate the birth of Jesus was moved forward five months in an attempt to obliterate existing religious festivals.

Yes, this is the excact reason Cromwell and the puritans banned Christmas.

However this all happened well over 100's of years ago, and perhaps we could get over it and allow each to celebrate the season in our own ways with out criticism, recrimination and finger pointing.

And perhaps after a year characterised by greed, selfishness and violence a message of peace on earth and goodwill to all is one we could all give some time to regardless of personal beleifs or creeds.