Friday, 9 September 2022

PLASTIC CHRISTMAS

 

Now Dasher, Now, Dancer

Now Prancer and Vixen

On Comet, On Cupid

On Donner, On Blitzen

So the plastic Santa’s say

Down at the mall

But shoppers have a verse

That serves one and all

Now charge it, now defer it

No cash and No cheques

On store card, on visa

On MasterCard and A-mex

CHRISTMAS POST

 

Mildred went to the post office

To buy stamps for her Christmas cards

“What denomination do you want?”

She was asked by Mr Everard

“That’s political correctness gone mad,

Has it come to this?” said she

“You’d better give me a book of Catholic

And a book of C of E”

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MISS KRINGLE (2018)

In her quaint hometown of White Deer, Ellie Hartman (Brooke D'Orsay) works for the Carlington Bakery, famous for making Christmas Kringles, but her real passion is crafting, and her Christmas wreaths are in great demand.

Unbeknown to everyone at the bakery CEO Jack Carlingson (Jonathan Whittaker) is planning to step down in the New Year and hand the reigns over to his son Nick (Daniel Lissing).

However, because of his obsession with modernization he has reservations, so he sends Nick to White Deer in December to learn all aspects of working in a bakery, including the production line that he is so keen to replace and to meet the employees people face to face, because they are the ones destined to be laid off if he got his way.

It fell on Ellie as human resources manager to show him the ropes and teach Nick how to make a Kringle, while also showing him that people make a business successful, not machines.

He is also introduced to the other employees as well as townspeople who work at and use the food bank and begins to appreciate the human cost of mass layoffs.

During the process Ellie and Nick fall for each other as he helps her to chase her entrepreneurial dreams and their other dreams come true at the same time. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE SANTA INCIDENT (2010)

 

Santa (James Cosmo) has his sleigh shot down while flying through restricted military airspace and he is found unconscious on the railway tracks by two children Daniel (Scott Graham) and Sophia (Ali Lyons),

While lying in hospital in a coma one of the nurses looking after him is the children’s mother Joanna (Ione Skye), but the earthbound Santa is sought for questioning by a pair of overzealous Homeland Security agents.

As a result the fate of Christmas is in the hands of the disbelieving by-the-book duo of Agents, unless their faith in Santa can be restored by two children, their mother, the local sheriff (Jonathan Kerrigan) and a trio of elves who have arrived from the North to help out a friend in need.

Friday, 2 September 2022

CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN

 

The snow softly falls on Christmas Eve

Excitement abounds for they who believe

Children’s faces gaze out from the light

Searching for Santa in the snowy night

Then off to bed skipping across the floor

After milk and cookies are left by the door

Snuggled under covers they say “night mum”

And think happy thoughts of the day to come

They lie too excited to sleep in their beds

But sleep they do then they dream instead

Dreams of Santa Claus and presents galore

Dreams of toys and sweets and so much more

Then they awake in the early morning gloom

Squeals of delight coming from their rooms

And so another Christmas day has come

A day of love and laughter and above all fun

OH WHAT A LOVELY GIFT

 

My mum got me a jumper

That fits what it touched

My sister got me novelty socks

That didn’t cost very much

My dad got me a Philishave

To shave between my spots

My Nan got me a scarf

And a box of jelly tots

But it’s the identity

That I would like to know

Of who got me the condoms

Tied up with a bow

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS JINGLE (2018)

In her quaint hometown of White Deer, Ellie Hartman (Brooke D'Orsay) works for the Carlington Bakery, famous for making Christmas Kringles, but her real passion is crafting, and her Christmas wreaths are in great demand.

Unbeknown to everyone at the bakery CEO Jack Carlingson (Jonathan Whittaker) is planning to step down in the New Year and hand the reigns over to his son Nick (Daniel Lissing).

However, because of his obsession with modernization he has reservations, so he sends Nick to White Deer in December to learn all aspects of working in a bakery, including the production line that he is so keen to replace and to meet the employees people face to face, because they are the ones destined to be laid off if he got his way.

It fell on Ellie as human resources manager to show him the ropes and teach Nick how to make a Kringle, while also showing him that people make a business successful, not machines.

He is also introduced to the other employees as well as townspeople who work at and use the food bank and begins to appreciate the human cost of mass layoffs.

During the process Ellie and Nick fall for each other as he helps her to chase her entrepreneurial dreams and their other dreams come true at the same time.