Spending Christmas with those you love is always a joy. And that goes for fictional characters too like many of the gang from Hanna-Barbera, an animation house founded by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1957, former MGM employees who gifted the world the hilarious manic delights of Tom and 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 book review: Snow Kissed by RaeAnne Thayne
(courtesy official author site) Falling in love at Christmas is de rigueur if you want to mark the season properly. That or finding Santa Claus when he’s missing and saving Christmas in the process; but given how tough finding love can be often, maybe finding the big man in red Continue Reading
On 4th day of Christmas … I listened to retro festive songs by Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra + Barbra Streisand
(via Shutterstock) Intangible though it might to say it but many Christmas songs are popular because they feel like the season. And what is that feeling exactly? It’s all kinds of cosiness and warmth, evoked by time with family and friends with snow falling outside – it may do that Continue Reading
“You’re in a different world when you’re in tree world.” Come and get to know The Merchants of Joy
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTIn the city that never sleeps, five families hustle each winter to turn sidewalks into holiday outposts. The Merchants of Joy follows these Christmas die-hards as they source, sell, and safeguard a family tradition at risk. It’s a warm, grounded portrait of pride, grit, and the joy Continue Reading
On 3rd day of Christmas … my inner child read 5 kids Christmas books incl. Jim’s Spectacular Christmas, When Santa Got Stuck in a Gumtree + The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit
(via Shutterstock) I am like a big kid when it comes to Christmas. I have always loved the season and one of my favourite things is reading as many Christmassy books as I can get my hands on; these guys they are more adult in tone and style but my Continue Reading
Festive book review: A Snowy Seaside Christmas by Eliza J Scott
(courtesy Storm Publishing) While any kind of Christmas romcom is usually good for the soul, helping you to believe in redemption, healing and true love, the really good ones, at least for this reader, also project a strong sense of cosy and supportive community. That’s important because finding your special Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas, I watched … Oh. What. Fun.
(courtesy First Showing) Christmas is a LOT. Even if you love the season, and this reviewer loves like an elf excitedly stocking Santa’s sleigh before downing a vat of eggnog and decorating every tree in the garden, all of us reach a point, even for a second where it all Continue Reading
Burning gingerbread men and festive snow funnies – Thoughts on Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTThe Emmy-winning franchise returns after more than a decade, following Christmas elves Lanny and Wayne as their holiday mission unfolds with many merry mishaps. The fourth installment [sic] continues the holiday adventures of an elite team that prepares homes worldwide for Santa’s arrival. (courtesy Disney+ media) After a Continue Reading
Festive book review: Keeping a Christmas Promise by Jo Thomas
(courtesy Penguin Books) When you love dearly dies, suddenly everything about them becomes vitally and inviolably important. That hit home very hard to me in the wake of the passing of my dad (2016) and then my mum (2019); suddenly I need to watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation every year, Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I decorated my tree with 10 new pop culture ornaments incl. Elio, Up, The Muppet Christmas Carol … and more!
(via Shutterstock) When I bought my first Christmas tree as an adult way back in 1992, I bought some pop culture ornaments but I mostly stuck to the sorts of ornaments and baubles I remembered from childhood. But as time went on, I increasingly bought more and more pop culture Continue Reading