WHAT’S TOP OF YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST?

“What’s top of your Christmas list?”

I was asked right out of the blue

“The loveliest girl ever” I replied

And on Christmas Eve I met you 

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS # 22

 

Twas the night before Christmas

And all thru the village

There was a terrible smell

Following a diesel spillage

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS EVE (2015)

 

“Christmas Eve” is a comedic drama about six different incidents of entrapped New Yorkers, the majority of whom get stuck inside elevators.

It happens on Christmas Eve after a power outage and those trapped are confined there overnight.

Some of the confined are in groups, such as concert musicians on their way to perform a Christmas Eve concert, a surgical team and their patient at the hospital on the way down from theatre, and five mismatched individuals who would not under normal circumstances have gelled.

There was one couple, a shy wallflower and a brash photographer, and another made up of an employer and the employee he’s just laid off, and then there are two individuals in solitary confinement, one is a bitter wealthy developer in an open elevator on a construction site and the other is the van driver who is trapped in the van that crashed into the sub-station and caused the power outage.

Unable to escape they are forced to interact with their fellow captives or confront their solitude and they are all transformed by the events of their long night of confinement.

Patrick Stewart and Gary Cole are the big names in the large talented ensemble cast but for me Steven John Shepherd as Glen and Shawn Ora Engemann as Nurse Byrnes are the stars of this Christmas gem.

ALL AT ONCE

 In the not so distant past, there was a tradition of giving gifts throughout all of the twelve days of Christmas rather than finding them all stacked up on Christmas morning.

The tradition, perhaps not surprisingly, never quite caught on in America.

FESTIVE FACT # 03

 

In Stuttgart, children dress up as Nikolaus and go from door to door asking for sweets similar to trick or treating at Halloween.

I ALWAYS MAKE THE EFFORT TO GO HOME

 

I always make the effort to go home

Though it fills me with dread to be clear

Two days of unwelcome parenting advice

From relatives I see once or twice a year

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS KISS II (2014)

 

As Christmas approaches, Jenna Kingston (Elisabeth Harnois), shares an impromptu and unforgettable kiss with a dashing stranger in an elevator, who turns out to be billionaire playboy, Cooper Montgomery (Adam Mayfield), the philandering brother of her employer, Mia (Lola Glaudini).

Although she was affected by the kiss and finds him very attractive she confides to her best friend and neighbour Sebastian (Jonathan Bennett) that she is fearful of getting hurt in another relationship, and vows to resist his charms, but she is unaware that he was similarly affected by their embrace.

It was only as a result of the two of them spending more time together that she begins to realize his affection for her is real and his intentions are sincere.