SANTA IS SUCH A JOLLY CHAP

 

Have you ever wondered

Why Santa is such a jolly chap?

Well, it’s because he knows

Where all the naughty girls are at

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A ROSE FOR CHRISTMAS (2017)

 

Andy (Rachel Boston) is a passionate artist, whose family has been building Rose Parade floats for generations and when her Dad gets sick, Andy is forced to take the helm and supervise the construction and decoration of their client's float.

Unfortunately, her father hadn’t got around to booking the labour or ordering the necessary supplies to do the job so the best of both were no longer available and to make matters worse, she's saddled with the extra challenge of dealing with a demanding businessman Cliff (Marc Bendavid), whose company commissioned the float, and sent him there to clip his wings, and many trials and tribulations follow. 

 

FESTIVE FACT # 21

The biggest selling Christmas single of all time is Irving Berlin’s White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby's

CHRISTMAS CANDLE

 

Candlelight of beauty

Adorning church and alter

None excluded from his love

Darkness conquered

Light of Christ illuminating

Everlasting light of life

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

 

December 8th has been observed as a Roman Catholic feast in commemoration of the Immaculate Conception since 1854.
It was in that year that Pope Pius IX made an official declaration that the term “Immaculate Conception” refers to neither the conception of Jesus nor to a virgin birth.
Pope Pius IX further decreed the term “Immaculate Conception” refers to a specific doctrine of Roman Catholicism decreeing that the Virgin Mary was preserved free from original sin by divine grace from the moment of her conception.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS LIST (2016)

 

Isobel Gray (Alicia Witt) plans an idyllic storybook Christmas with her boyfriend Peter Benson (Brett Bishop), including a snow-covered cottage in the Northwest, and a carefully composed bucket list of classic holiday traditions, to tick off, traditions that she was deprived of by her neat freak mother Ellen Gray (Wanda Cannon)

But when the boyfriend goes AWOL, and she meets Jamie Houghton (Gabriel Hogan) the list proves more challenging, and the possibility of a tempting new romance turns her life upside down.

In the midst of things her mother turns up intent on staying with her which ends in upset and recriminations, but she keeps working on her list anyway.

And as time goes by the question is, will Isobel have a White Christmas, and will it end under the mistletoe?

 

I’m a big Alicia Witt fan and she has made a few good Christmas movies, my favourite scene in this one is when Gabriel Hogan stands in as Santa and she dresses as his Elf, priceless.

HOOK

 

There is something puzzling me

As it doesn’t say in the book

Before his hand was taken

What did they call captain hook

 

It’s a difficult one to answer

Maybe he was evil captain fist

Or was he called captain two hands

Not really a very menacing list

 

And was it simply irony, mere chance

Or was his accident planned

For if not for the crocodile

He would have remained a deck hand