Cinnamon is a popular spice used in many Christmas favorites but it isn’t just a simple flavoring spice.
Cinnamon comes from the bark of a small Southeast
Asian evergreen tree and
It is one of the oldest remedies in traditional
Chinese medicine, prescribed for a number of complaints such as diarrhea,
chills, influenza and intestinal worms.
In a small town, two rival toy shops vie for each other’s customers, Connie Forrester (Melissa Joan Hart) and her brother Randy (Dan Amboyer) run one and Will DiNova (Mario Lopez) runs the other and there is no love lost between them.
But unscrupulous toy magnate Roy Barnes
(Billy Gardell) opens a super store in town and the two rivals have to reluctantly
join forces to defeat him.
Slowly as they battle against the interloper
Connie and Will, begin to thaw and they both discover that there is more to
life than running a toy store.
But they aren’t the only targets of cupid’s
festive arrows, Connie’s mum Pam (Beth Broderick) and café/bar owner Joe Haggarty (Brian
Dennehy), also feel loves sweet sting, and Randy finally succumbs to the
advances of Joe’s waitress Francine (Tara Strong).
Adrian I a well-regarded Pope and friend to Charlemagne died Christmas day 795.
Samuel de Champlain the French explorer and founder of Quebec City died in Canada in 1635.
Czech
author and inventor of the word robot Karel
Čapek died December 25th 1938
Harry
T. Moore the black civil rights activist was murdered along with his wife
Harriet in their home in Florida Christmas day 1951.
The greatest thing
About
not being a foreigner
Is
not having to eat
Christmas
pud in high summer
When I was a kid and it came time for the “oldies” to open their presents I was always amazed by the fuss they would make about the wrapping paper.
They
would first admire it then they would caress it tenderly and then they would
gingerly begin to unwrap the gift.
Once
unwrapped they would first set aside the gift while they carefully folded the
wrapping paper so it could be used again the following year then they would
examine the gift.
This
ritual would be repeated with each subsequent present and would be performed by
all.
I
can only think that this was as a result of having been through the hard times.
The
depression of the thirties, the shortages of the war years and the austerity of
the fifties.
My
mum would go through the whole ritual and would carefully tuck her pile of
wrapping paper, Bows and ribbons away in the sideboard draw “Ready for next
year”.
Come
the next year and the fabulous treasures which had been so thoughtfully
secreted away were nowhere to be seen only new wrapping paper, Bows and
ribbons.
So
I think to myself sanity has been restored this year it will be about the
presents not what they were wrapped in.
But
no, on Christmas day it’s the same thing all over again.
Julie Bedford (Linda Hamilton) is a well-to-do married woman, wife to George (Garwin Sanford) and mother to Andie (Brittney Wilson) and is very happy with her life.
That is until she finds out her husband
is cheating on her with a fitness instructor.
After the divorce she leaves the old family
home and rents an apartment in a cheaper area, which her daughter doesn’t like
one little bit so she goes to live with her father until her planned six month
trip to Spain.
Then through a series of misfortunes
Julie ends up homeless and sleeping in her car and has suddenly become one of
the invisible people, fortunately she meets Selma (Brenda Crichlow) who is in
the same boat as her, and not letting the situation drag them down they hatch a
plan to get themselves back on their feet with the aid of storekeeper Max Stern
(Campbell Lane) and his son Michael (Rob Stewart).
A lovely feel good movie well worth a watch.
Ismet Inonu Turkish statesman died at his home on 1973.
Tristan Tzara, poet
and essayist and founder of
Dada, the nihilistic revolutionary movement in the arts died in Paris1963
Joan Miró, Spanish Surrealist Painter and Sculptor died on Christmas day 1983.
Nicolae Ceauşescu the Romanian
dictator was executed in his
palace in 1989.
American
baseball player and manager Billy Martin died on December 25th 1989.
