Every year, the last nights before Christmas Eve, you can tune in to different radio station's "rhyming shows" (rimstugor) in Sweden. People call in and tell the show's participants weird Christmas gifts and while waiting they get a "rhyme" back. In our family we have the tradition that each Christmas gift has to come with a rhyme - so this usually is a lot of fun inspiration.Right now (Friday December 21, 9.42 pm Swedish time) I'm listening to the "rimstuga" on P4 Stockholm and having a blast. In California the time is only 12.42 pm, and I still have half a day of working left before my Christmas holidays. But laughing sure makes it a bit easier do to all these few last things before I can turn of my office e-mail and go on my Christmas holiday!
I have no idea if this is done here in the US... but it's a lot of fun!
(Picture from the Swedish Radio website - one of the greatest radio websites!)
3 comments:
Yes it IS!!! One of the greatest radio web-sites! I am so thankful for it! SO thankful! I am listening to it several times a week, both live and from their archives.
Rimstugan I've missed, though!! But I know it is FUNNY!!!
Lyssnar ocksa ofta pa Sveriges Radio nar jag jobbar pa computern. Vad roligt att hora att nagon har hallit fast vid traditionen att rimma pa julklapparna. Det gjorde vi i varan slakt nar jag var liten, och det var ju halften av det roliga. Men det tar san valdig tid, jag trodde ingen hade talamod for sant langre. Kan man fa hjalp fran Sverige's Radio ar det ju annu battre.
Annika - it's the greatest... I never knew to appreciate Swedish radio so much until I moved here... outstanding! Rimstugan was great!
Anita - hej!! Ja, det är helt suveränt! Japp - här är det rimtvång... hualigen - jag är ingen fena - men har en familj där alla är helt fenomenala på att rimma. Men det är kul. Att öppna presenter tar flera timmar - en i taget och alla får gissa. Gör det till en mysig stund - men visst - det tar tiiid... ;-)
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