THE WEATHER MAY BE DREARY

 

The weather may be dreary

My bones maybe weary

I may walk with heavy step

I maybe lacking in pep

But when Christmas arrives

My spirit soon revives

IT LIFTS THE HEART AND SOUL

 

It lifts the heart and soul

Even when doing chores

What the year long drains

The festive season restores

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE COMPETITION

 

After a small town Department Store inadvertently orders 60,000 sets of Xmas lights, the store owner’s daughter, Dianne Crouch (Kristen Dalton) suggests an outdoor Christmas decorating contest to sell off the surplus stock.

The competition is an instant success and leads to record sales of lights and decorations at the store which throws Diane and store employee Lou Boyd (Robert Moloney) together.

The Store's owner Crouch (Garry Chalk) wants to keep the very profitable competition going, at all costs, and keeps raising the stakes. Which soon causes unrest among the locals of Chestnut Street, where Lou lives with his elderly parents (Tom Heaton and Donna White), as Crouch is determined that the Boyd house will win.

However for Lou and Dianne the contest soon takes second place in this amusing seasonal romance.

CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE # 3

 

It’s Christmas day in the workhouse

Just another grey day to endure

We have been promised nouvelle cuisine

So Oliver will be asking for more

A VEGETARIAN CHRISTMAS

 

Do you want to celebrate?

A vegetarian Christmas

Then here you are

Have a freshly strained

Vegetable every day

With the advent colander

THE COUNCIL CHRISTMAS TREE

 

The council Christmas tree is dressed

And the lights were switched on in June

But don’t get yourself unduly distressed

With energy saving lights it’s not too soon

Because you must switch them on remember

So they are warmed up by December

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS (1974)

 

The Year Without a Santa Claus is a classic children’s animation about a Santa Claus who is thoroughly disgruntled with Christmas and opts to take a year off from delivering presents.

However Mrs. Santa and elves Jangle Bells and Jingle Bells have other ideas when Jingle and Jangle decide to go out to find children to convince Santa that the Christmas spirit is still important to everybody else.

But they have to get past Heat Miser and Snow Miser, first, before they land in Southtown, USA, where it never snows for Christmas, where they find Ignatius Thistlewhite who is desperate for it to snow, but the Miser Brothers won't agree to let it snow in Southtown but Mrs. Santa knows their mom, Mother Nature and so the crisis is averted.

This endearing Rankin-Bass masterpiece is a wonderful example of stop motion animation with aided by the vocal talents of Shirley Booth (Mrs. Santa), Mickey Rooney (Santa Claus), Dick Shawn (Snow Miser), George S. Irving (Heat Miser), Bob McFadden (Jingle Bells), Bradley Bolke (Jangle Bells), Ron Marshall (Mr. Thistlewhite), Colin Duffy (Ignatius Thistlewhite), Christine Winter (Blue Christmas Girl) and Rhoda Mann (Mother Nature).