I LOVE THE SMELLS OF CHRISTMAS

 

I love the smells of Christmas

Like Cinnamon and Ginger

Roasted chestnuts piping hot

 

Gluhwein and Pine needles

So I feel sorry for the snowmen

As they can only smell carrot

CHRISTMAS

Christ the lord

Holy birth in Bethlehem 

Regal child in David’s city

Infant of God 

Sent from heaven above

To die for us

Messiah in a manger

Angelic miracle 

Saviour of man

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LAST CHANCE FOR CHRISTMAS (2005)

 

Tom Lane (David Sutcliffe) is the star columnist for the San Francisco Sun newspaper which is owned by a huge media conglomerate, and the parent company headed by Anthony Shephard (Garry Chalk), is interested in increasing Tom's media exposure by producing a new television show around him. Meanwhile Liz Madison (Dina Meyer) is the advice columnist for the little read community newspaper, the Marin County Voice, which is the epitome of a gentler age.

Apart from both being journalists, and being singletons with their friends and family doing whatever they can to find that special someone to fill a void in their personal lives, they have nothing in common.

At the beginning of November the staff at the Voice learn that the conglomerate that owns the Sun has bought their newspaper, with the likelihood that the Sun would swallow them up, meaning all the staff at the Voice would lose their jobs.

To fight back, Liz decides to abandon her advice column and change it into a forthright editorial espousing the true meaning of Christmas and championing the Voice’s importance to the community, and because of the feisty and entertaining nature of Liz's new column, the circulation of the Voice increases dramatically, so much so that the new owner has second thoughts about closing it.

The knock on effect of that would be to put Tom's new television show in jeopardy, so to protect his career advancement, Tom decides to write a contradictory column to Liz's, advocating the need to instil some practicality into Christmas.

So The competing columns become a personal battle for the two adversarial columnists, but while Tom and Liz are spewing out their mutual loathing for each other and what they stand for, their respective friends try to convince them of the old adage that opposites attract and that there is a fine line between love and hate.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1939

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was introduced by Montgomery Ward stores to become the 9th reindeer. 

I ALWAYS COME OUT IN A RASH

 

I always come out in a rash

It happens every Xmas

I’ve been to see a doctor

And he thinks its Eczemas

SANTA'S FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG

 

Santa's favorite Christmas song

That he sings repeatedly

Is Santa Claus is coming to town

Sung by Elfish Presley

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – STUCK (2015)

“Stuck” 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.