Hoping that I'm not overposting here. But in a few weeks, coming soon to a chimney near you, stations will be starting in with their Holiday formats anyway ..... :- )
Each Christmas Eve, around 9PM, me and the missus wrap gifts, to be distributed the next day, while listening to CJBC. We've been observing this odd orthodoxy for at least the past fifteen years. Between the two of us, despite both of us having grandparents of French distraction, we only understand about 1/20th of what's being said. Yet, the listening is so delghtfully .... old world?
And even since she and I are slightly different faiths, I see no harm in then driving around about 11:30 to find some house of worship with lights on. 'You'll go to ANY old church!' she grumbles.
Well, yeah. One year we wound up at a Mass where the congregation was singing 'Silent Night' in what sounded to me like Russian.
Then we get back home, and CJBC is into slightly different programming. Quite often it's more sombre. Sometimes it's off Radio France International.
One year they (and CBF 690) had on two gals doing a show from what sounded like a hotel lobby or ballroom -- with a live string quartet! Great stuff it was, made even better when it became apparent that the two gals were getting progressively more and more blasted on cognac as the night wore on, giggling and even belching.
The observance remains a ritual here. Some of you folks within range might find it ..... uh, different?
