It was just twelve months ago
Since my special wish was made
A wish you thought so simple
For which a fortune I'd have paid
And now it's our first Christmas
In our first little house
But I hope the first of many
With my beautiful new spouse
This year my wish is simpler still
On this Christmas day with you
May our hearts be always filled with love
And the stockings be filled with you
Following the death of his father, 13-year-old George (Gage Munroe), is staying with his grandparents, Bo and Cora McCray (James Brolin and Barbara Gordon) on their dairy farm until after Christmas.
With the arrival of the first snows they are struggling to keep the family farm running
and George has to help with the milking as well as driving the snow plough, but
he finds a trusty shoulder to lean on in the shape of a dog called Tucker,
which the McCrays were looking
after while their neighbour Mr Thorne (Ron Lea), was in jail for drunk driving.
But when Thorne is released he wants Tucker back,
and that’s when the story really starts.
It’s
a nice story, well photographed with a fine cast, but the pick of the bunch for
me was Helen Colliander as George’s special school friend Mary Ann.
It was in Germany in 1531 that the first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared.
The
first Christmas card was printed in England in 1843, for a busy man called Sir
Henry Cole.
Because he was such a busy man he wanted to save some of the time he had to
spend on his Christmas correspondence.
However his motive was not merely to ease the burden of his letter writing he
was also a tremendous advocate of the slowly expanding postal system.
Sir Henry Cole's first commercial Christmas card sold 1000 copies at one
shilling each.
But it was not until the 1860s that card production accelerated with the advent
of cheaper printing methods.
Then in 1870 a half penny stamp for sending cards was introduced by the Post
Office.
Twas the night before Christmas
And all thru the Hamlet
Not a creature was
stirring
But no need to fret
They were at
midnight mass
And hadn’t returned
yet
From the Church in
town
Where they were
well met
Eve Simon (Elisa Donovan) is a wealthy and successful advertising executive with Bernstein & Barlow on Madison Avenue, and she’s a career woman who has everything, except someone special in her life.
She did have her married boss and lover, Neil Barlow (Kavan
Smith) but that ended when, on Christmas Eve, he said he would be spending
Christmas with his wife and kids instead of her.
So, all alone in the city she wallowed in
self-pity and Gin and reflected on her life and the choices she had made, and that was when
she got a second chance in her life when a magical wish
transported her back in time by eight years, to the time when she walked away
from her fiancé Scott Gustafson (Sebastian Spence) to lead what she thought would be her perfect life in
New York.
People have been discovering
On a Christmas Morning
That the curse of Christmas
That’s causing the most fuss
Has been unanimously concluded
Batteries not included
