Wednesday, 17 November 2021

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – JOULUTARINA

 

The story begins just before Christmas, hundreds of years ago in Lapland where a little boy named Nikolas loses his parents and sister in an accident.

After being left all alone the villagers decide to collectively look after the orphaned boy as no one family can afford to take the boy in permanently so every year on Christmas Day, Nikolas moves to a new home.

Grateful to the villagers for their kindness Nikolas chooses to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents and over the years, his former adoptive families grow in number and soon almost every house in the village has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning.

Then when he is thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids him to continue making presents for Christmas.

Gradually though he wins Iisakki's trust and together the pair begin to look after the Christmas tradition that Nikolas had begun.

But many years later the aged Iisakki must leave Nikolas and move away to live with his estranged children and he thinks that he must once again return to the tradition of delivering Christmas presents on his own but his best friends daughter Aada has different ideas.

Made in Finland, it’s a lovely Christmas story, well-acted and beautifully photographed, performed Finnish and dubbed into English.

CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE # 4

 

It’s Christmas day in the workhouse

Just another grey day to endure

We are being treated to pot noodle

So Oliver won’t be asking for more

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