Right it’s Boxing Day here in Australia and I hadn’t planned on any more Christmas posts but I kept forgetting all sorts of fun festive posts by my favourite TV shows, music artists and movies and had to share them. You’re Ho! Ho! Ho! welcome. Continue Reading
Christmas 2013
Merry Christmas to all … and to all a good book, movie, TV show or song
Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you so much for reading, tweeting and otherwise supporting my blog this year. May your festive season be full of singing … Special times with family and friends (and, of course, the holiday armadillo) … Magical adventures … Continue Reading
“Oh you shouldn’t have!” Miranda Hart and David Walliams teach you how to graciously accept your gifts
We’ve all been there on Christmas morning. You are given a brightly-wrapped present from a clearly thrilled and excited family member, and thrilled, yes thrilled (!) at what exciting treasure may lie ahead, you rip off the ribbons and paper (yes I am a destructive present opener) and find Continue Reading
On the 12th day of Christmas 2013 … I read (and wrote about) Twas the Night Before Christmas
Christmas eve. It’s one of the most magical nights of the year, with Christmas so tantalisingly close you can almost taste it – unless you’re a child impatiently waiting for Santa Claus to arrive in which case it’s the longest night of the year – replete with all kinds of Continue Reading
On the 11th day of Christmas … I pondered which 5 movies I would watch over the holiday break
One of the things I love most about the festive season is the chance to wind down, stop the clock (well, the rat race one at least) and do as little as humanly possible while consuming as many calories as I can manage (hello Cadbury chocolate sultanas/raisins!). That is Continue Reading
On the 10th day of Christmas … I watched “A Simple Christmas” (The Middle S2, E10)
It’s an oft heard lament that the real meaning of Christmas has been lost under a tsunami of mindless gift giving, with the average person more concerned with what they’re getting than what they’re giving. The Middle decided to tackle that sentiment in their season 2 festive episode, “A Continue Reading
On the 9th day of Christmas 2013 … I read I Saw Mommy Biting Santa Claus
This festive season, as you hang your stockings “by the chimney with care”, you might wander want to reconsider hoping that “St Nicholas soon would be there”. For it seems that even Santa, that seemingly immortal figure removed from the concerns and troubles of our world, except for the Continue Reading
On the 8th day of Christmas … I listened to Nerina Pallot’s We Made It Through Another Year EP
There is a fitting wistfulness to Nerina Pallot’s just released Christmas EP We Made it Through Another Year. Not so much because of the British artist herself whom I have found over the course of many LPs and EPs, and in everyday Twitter conversation, to be every bit as Continue Reading
On the 7th day of Christmas 2013 … I watched “Tis the season to be murdered” (Hart to Hart, S2 E5)
“Oh Jonathan! What a lovely day. This is going to be the best Christmas ever.” And with those words, Jennifer Hart (Stefanie Powers), who by this stage in season 2 of Hart to Hart (1980) should know better, dooms the Harts to another festive season littered with murder and mayhem. Continue Reading
On the 6th Day of Christmas … Hey Carol listen to this! 3 Christmas songs I love and their origins
Ah Christmas music. You either love it or you hate it. No points for guessing that I love it, since I am a self-confessed Christmas junkie and festive music is after all the soundtrack to my tinsel-clogged addiction. But it goes well beyond the fact that it’s Christmas and Continue Reading