In Reply to: memories of christmas in castlebar. posted by JacoD on November 29, 2007 at 15:05:32:

the lanterns around the Mall, the cribs minus Baby Jesus until Christmas Eve, making decorations out of crepe paper at school, making Santas out of toilet rolls and crepe paper,the turkeys down at the pig market (Paddy Morans), chocolate Santas and selection boxes, fighting with my brother over who would get to keep the stamps that adorned the "Yanks" christmas card, the guy selling the chocolates down in the market square, holly being sold door to door by some enterprising folks who felled manys a holly tree under the cover of darkness, my mother pretending to write a letter to Santy to update him on our behavior (or lack of), my brother grabbing the letter and throwing it into the fire, figuring out how much we were going to make on the Wran