21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 250

 

Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree,

he makes a pretty picture doesn’t he?

Little Robin Redbreast in the winter hard

He makes a pretty picture on a Christmas card

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MY CHRISTMAS LOVE

 

“My Christmas Love” 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.

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS # 38

 

Twas the night before Christmas

And all round the Close

The Carol Singers perform

For the festive and the morose

A QUESTION OF POOH

 

Its Christmas time again, as if anyone could fail to notice.

Even without leaving my house I can see more than half a dozen house decorated to the hilt.

Every coloured light imaginable, Santa’s on the roof or climbing a ladder, sleighs, elves, snowmen, bells, stars baubles and last but by no means least standing almost four feet high that perennial favourite Winnie the Pooh.

Wait a minute though you might well be saying what does Pooh have to do with Christmas? Well every other house seems to have one so there must be something in it.

I don’t recall mention of him in the bible and in the many nativity plays I have seen over the years he was conspicuous by his absence and although there is a donkey its not Eeyore.

The stable did not house Piglet and the wise men did not travel from the east with Tigger baring gifts of Huney.

Nor in any of the Christmas traditions around the world is there a single reference to Pooh as one of Santa’s helpers.

There’s Black Peter, The Jolly Elf even the devil figure Krampus but no Pooh but people still give him pride of place on their lawns at Christmas.

Go figure. 

MY FAVOURITE THINGS AT XMAS # 3

 

Hearing the Church bells and sleigh bells ringing

Midnight mass worship with Carol singing

Singing in praise of the King of Kings

These are a few of my favourite things

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A NUTCRACKER CHRISTMAS

 

Ballerina Lily Jamison (Amy Ackler) dreamt her whole life of performing as the sugar plum fairy in the Nutcracker, but on the eve of her achieving her ambition her sister is killed in a car accident so Lily gives up dancing in order to raise her sister's daughter Sadie (Sophia Lucia).

As she grows up though Sadie turns out to be a ballet prodigy and is offered the lead role of Clara in a production of The Nutcracker in Philadelphia.

It’s only after their arrival in the city of brotherly love that Lily discovers that the director, is Lily's ex-boyfriend Mark, (Sascha Radetsky) who she hasn’t seen since the night her sister died.

Old wounds are opened and old dreams are awoken in a delightful romantic movie.

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS # 37

 

Twas the night before Christmas

And all along the Avenue

The Christmas lights are twinkling

For everyone to view