Three kings from the east
Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar
Enlightened kings of wisdom
On their great quest travelled far
Three wise men from the east
Who followed a bright star
Three kings bearing gifts
Gold, frankincense, and myrrh
Three kings from the east
Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar
Three kings of great wealth
Bowed low before the saviour
“Christmas Expectations” is story about a hopelessly romantic writer, Cynthia (Meredith Hagner), and the inability of the men in her life to live up to her romantic ideal.
But when her and her
friend and illustrator Liam (Bobby Campo) go to her father’s house for the
Christmas Wedding of her sister Janet (Megan Park) Cynthia starts receiving at
her door anonymous gifts of the “12 Days of Christmas”.
It's a fun mystery but
Cynthia is determined to find out who the great romantic is that’s sending the
gifts and conscripts everyone around her to assist.
Eventually she decides
that it must be a local Deputy, Scott (Aaron O'Connell), but will he live up to
her expectations or will there be a final twist or two.
Christmas is coming, the Geese are getting fat
The bird is a little fatty but I don’t mind that
If you haven’t got a Goose then a Turkey will do
If you haven’t got a Turkey, I’m not dining with you
Crimson breasted
Perching on a gate
Robin red breast
Looking for a mate
A hardy suitor
Courting and wooing
Proudly displaying
In ritual pursuing
Trying to impress
To attract a wife
So in the spring
There’d be new life
And for his efforts
Amidst winter hard
He gets to appear
On a Christmas card
Pulled with violence
To break the silence
Choring, drawing
Mechanism priming
Ready for chiming
Banging, clanging
Momentum gaining
Timbers straining
Creaking, speaking
Mechanical timing
With rhythm climbing
Swaying, obeying
The peel resounding
A sound astounding
Ringing, singing
The call goes out
Around and about
Voicing, rejoicing
Come says the calling
Come one and all in
Morning, morning
Christ born this day
The Christmas bells say
Rejoicing, rejoicing
Little Women is Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s and is a “coming of age” drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg (Trini Alvarado), Jo (Winona Ryder), Beth (Claire Danes) and Amy (Kirsten Dunst/ Samantha Mathis), who struggle to make ends meet in their New England household while the girl’s father, Jonathan (Matthew Walker), is away fighting in the Civil War.
I his absence the family is headed by the girl’s beloved mother Marmee
(Susan Sarandon), and the March
family are supported by the help of their kind and wealthy neighbour, Mr.
Laurence (John Neville), and his high
spirited grandson Laurie (Christian Bale).
The story details the March girl’s passage from childhood to womanhood
and despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, and as they mature, they face
blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining
their unbreakable bond as sisters.
The other pivotal
characters in the story are Aunt Kathryn March (Mary Wickes) and Prof.
Friedrich Bhaer (Gabriel Byrne).
Saviour, at your birth
The angels softly sang
Heralding your arrival
To save the fate of man
Now your birthday is near
We hear the church bells rang
Calling your children hither
To sing the thanks of man
