NOW THAT IT'S CHRISTMAS # 2

 

Now that it's Christmas

It makes me kind of glum

To do all the things

I used to do with mum

But when I feel her beside me

Then I don’t feel so glum

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS WEDDING DATE

 

After being fired, Rebecca Wesley (Marla Sokoloff) travels back to her old home town on Christmas Eve to attend the wedding of her best friend Allison (Vanessa Evigan) and too visit her mother (Catherine Hicks).

After she returns home in this Christmas meets Groundhog Day movie Rebecca is forced to relive Christmas Eve over and over until she gets it right.

All the replays centre around her issues with ex childhood sweetheart Chad (Chris Carmack) and the supernatural Mr. Destiny (George Wendt) is on hand to give her direction.

It’s a fairly enjoyable Christmas offering but Catherine Hicks and George Wendt are the stars and carry the movie.

IT’S NOT EVERYONE’S IDEAL

 

It’s not everyone’s ideal

Not their cup of tea

Or glass of mulled wine

But it is for me

Christmas is special

A wonderful heartfelt time

When deep felt feelings

Of happiness and joy

Rise to the surface

Like bubbles in champagne

SEASONS COME AND GO

 

Seasons come and go, but

For me the festive season

Is the most special of all

It refreshes and restores

Simply put, it invigorates

And sets me up once again

For the coming year ahead

LET’S RAISE A GLASS TO MUM # 1

 

Let’s raise a glass to Mum

And I speak for us all when I say

You have triumphed once again

In your quiet efficient way

You have managed to conjure up

Another perfect Christmas day

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