HEART FELT THANKS

 

About ten years ago an Ambulance responded to a call in a restaurant in Warwickshire after a 56-year-old man was reported to have suffered a heart attack.

When the paramedic arrived, they assumed the man was a customer and quickly set to work and revived the man and took him to the hospital.

When the man duly recovered it transpired that he was not a customer at the restaurant but the owner and to show his gratitude he invited a group of thirty hospital and ambulance staff to his restaurant for a grand meal.

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS # 42

 

Twas the night before Christmas

And all thru the City

Peoples were alone for the season

Which was such a pity

The Church was the one place

Where they never felt alone

As they were welcomed

And made to feel at home

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MERRY EX-MAS (2014)

 

Jessie and Noelle Rogers (Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson) are divorcing after he is wrongly implicated in a sex scandal, but at Christmas, after a mix up as to who had the use of their cabin for the holidays they become snowbound during a blizzard, along with his yoga instructor girlfriend Tasha (Rebecca Grant), Noelle’s wealthy suitor, Flynn (Lochlyn Munro), Jessie’s former mother in law, Roz (Trish Cook) and his daughter Carrie (Shannon Kummer), which all makes for a very fraught Christmas and an enjoyable movie.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe steals the show as Flynn’s self-absorbed lawyer Ashley Williams she is so good that you end up loving her despite her totally deplorable nature.

TRIVIAL TITBIT # 10

 

The Roman poet Virgil wrote about the decorating of pine trees in honor of Bacchus, the god of drinking and revelry.

TAKE CARE

 

A recent report by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that “decking the halls” at Christmas can be dangerous. The report stated that an estimated 17,465 people were treated in American hospital E.R’s between 2000 and 2003 for falls related to putting up Christmas decorations.

TOBLERONE

 

Toblerone, the perfect Christmas gift

For the friends you remember

At the very last possible moment

On the twenty fourth of December

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ANGEL IN TRAINING (2016)

 

Upon her untimely death, Eve (Kristin Davis), a workaholic finds herself in training to be a Christmas Angel in Heaven, under the instruction of Pearl (Shirley MacLaine).

Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, she's assigned a hard luck case, Max (Eric McCormack) and his daughter Lauren (Jaeda Lily Miller).

And as she is forced to help solve their problems, she starts to discover the meaning of Christmas and despite being told not to, she falls in love along the way.