(via Shutterstock) There are Christmas albums without number, and while it’s fun to listen to a whole roster of songs from one artist which bring the season musically alive, there’s also something rather wonderful about a song here or there which give a few minutes of magical joy before they 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!
On 1st day of Christmas … I put 15 new pop culture ornaments on my tree incl. Ted Lasso, Schitt’s Creek, Shazam, Peter Pan, Peanuts … and more!
(via Shutterstock) Take one look at this blog and you realise I love pop culture. LOVE IT! So while the first ornaments I bought for my own grown-up tree in 1992 were relatively standard baubles and department store trinkets, soon followed by Hallmark ornaments by the metric ton, I soon Continue Reading
Festive movie review: The Naughty Nine
(courtesy Twitter / X) If there’s one trend emerging in this year’s crop of streaming Christmas releases – this is quite apart from the usual Hallmark etc romcoms which exist in blissfully trope-heavy world of their own – it’s that the writers and producers have taken a look at what’s Continue Reading
Book review: Last Christmas by Julia Williams
Miracles are, by and large in short supply in our humdrum, bread-and-butter world. We long for them, we hail the extraordinary moments that do occasionally thwart the drab banality of life as “miracle” and we love stories that embody them because, even if it is only fictional, here’s a chance Continue Reading
Christmas movie review: Candy Cane Lane
(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
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