If you have watched any episodes of Shaun the Sheep, and yes, while the program is ostensibly aimed at kids, many adults will get a kick out of it too, furnished as it is with Aardman’ trademark silly wit and whimsy, you will have noticed the show’s protagonist is a Continue Reading
#Christmas movie review: LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
Debuting 42 years exactly since the much-loved but slightly infamous 1978 Holiday Special, the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special is a delightful throwback to the Christmas TV specials of old like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), combining iconic characters, a cheekily seditious sense of Continue Reading
On 4th day of Christmas … I read Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders #BookReview
You might ask yourself if Christmas actually needs a biography – aren’t all its many secrets and stories already well known to us? It turns out, as you dive deep into the highly readable Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders, that they really, really aren’t. All those stories we know Continue Reading