(courtesy First Showing) Decorating for Christmas is supposed to be one of life’s sparkly, pretty quiet joys. Throw some lights onto your house and thread them through the trees and bushes of your front garden, put up a few figures or two of Santa and his sleigh or some elves Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Festive comics review: The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas – 50 Years of Holiday Comics!
(courtesy Hallmark Books) If ever a season felt completely at home in a comic strip, then it’s Christmas in Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. You could, of course, also make largely the same case for Halloween and while Linus and the Great Pumpkin is inherently memorable, overall its Christmas Continue Reading
Book review: The Christmas Book Club by Sarah Morgan
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Reach) There’s something about the most wonderful time of the year that makes us feel as if anything is possible, that all the baggage of the year can be wiped away in the effervescent glittery escapism of Christmas. While the new year is traditionally the time Continue Reading
Love and pirates: Thoughts on Our Flag Means Death season 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) How often do we really get to follow our heart? Quite a bit if we’re so inclined in this far more freedom enabled age but back in 1717 at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy? Not as much as you’d think. Sure, as Stede Bonnet Continue Reading
#Christmas kids books reviews: Pink Santa, Dharma the Christmas Llama, Dear Santa, I Don’t Need Socks, Christmas at the North Pole + Little Unicorn’s Christmas
(via Shutterstock) I am a big kid at heart. While I have well and truly grown up and I pay taxes and go the office (thankfully not all the time) and do very adult things, there’s a part of me that loves adventure and fun and busting the day-to-day banality Continue Reading
Book review: Christmas at the Beach Hut by Veronica Henry
Is it possible to tire of Christmas? Or in the case of Lizzy Kingham, who LOVES Christmas with furiously bright red and green twinkling lights, great bundles of tinsel strewn everywhere and a kilo ton of fruit mince pieces for every meal, to tire of all the effort that goes Continue Reading
Animated festive movie festival: The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday + Trolls Holiday
(courtesy IMP Awards) The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday So, you’re likely used to the rather appealing idea that Christmas is all giving and doing unto others etc and not about grabbing and stealing and having a narcissistic time of it. Well established as that may be as a Continue Reading
Festive movie review: 1000km From Christmas (A mil kilómetros de la Navidad)
(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) If you’re a Christmas-aholic or a Christmas tragic or whatever term of festive devotion is near and dear to your tinsel-filled heart, you might find it odd, nay perplexing, that anyone might not love the most wonderful time of the year quite like you do. After Continue Reading
Ring in the festive season with Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas
(courtesy IMDb (c) AppleTV+) Christmas is an inherently exuberant time of the year. Whether you choose to lean into that exuberance is another matter entirely, but regards of whether you’re a tinsel addict or a Scrooge, there’s no escaping the fact that the most wonderful time of the year is Continue Reading
Christmas book review: The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Christmas is, no matter how you slice it, a pretty romantic time of the year. Unless your soul is made of concrete and your heart of thickest steel, you can’t help but feel happily uplifted and lightened by all the twinkling lights, the joy and the Continue Reading