Merry Christmas sir, I’m your paper boy
I bring you daily tidings of peace and joy
I know that at 6am that no one knocks
But how else would I get my Christmas box
Merry Christmas sir, I’m your paper boy
I bring you daily tidings of peace and joy
I know that at 6am that no one knocks
But how else would I get my Christmas box
Oh my Christmas Angel
Won’t you here my plea
Oh Christmas Angel
Spend Christmas with me
Oh my Christmas Angel
Surely heaven sent
Oh Christmas Angel
Be my Christmas present
Oh my Christmas Angel
Wont you here my plea
Let me un-wrap you
Beneath the Christmas tree
Oh my Christmas Angel
Oh please hear me do?
Oh Christmas angel
Let me make a devil out of you
As Christmas rapidly approaches, Paula (Kimberley Sustad), a St. Louis antique appraiser, reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal from her workaholic attorney boyfriend, Daniel (Giles Panton).
When she tells her Aunt Jane (Kathie
Lee Gifford),
she senses that Paula has mixed emotions over the engagement, and invites Paula
to her Nantucket home.
But upon her arrival, her Aunt explains that she needs to meet with
her publisher so Paula takes a day trip to the nearby island of Martha's
Vineyard where she meets Gery Conover (Paul
Campbell),
the kind hearted and charming owner of the Charlotte Inn.
But when bad weather prevents her from departing, Paula winds up
staying at Gery's inn and enjoying the local holiday festivities alongside him
and they begin to have feelings for each other but when the weather clears up,
they part ways and Paula returns to Nantucket.
On her return Aunt Jane senses she's fallen for Gery, and shares with
Paula her belief that their meeting was God's way of “winking” at her to help
determine which direction her life should take.
But would Paula take the hint and accept that she and Daniel were not
compatible and that her future was with Gery on Martha’s Vineyard.
The Polar Express was written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg and published in 1985.
The book is partially
set in the author's home town, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and takes place in 1956.
It begins when a young
boy, who used to love Christmas, but now doubts, hears a train whistle outside
his house and to his amazement, he finds the train has stopped and is waiting
for him.
The conductor explains
the train is called the Polar Express, and is journeying to the North Pole.
Still wearing his night clothes the boy reluctantly boards the train, which is
filled with chocolate and candy, as well as many other children in their
pyjamas.
After an adventurous
journey the train reaches the North Pole and at the center of town thousands of
elves are waiting to send Santa Claus on his way.
The boy is handpicked
by Santa to receive the first gift of Christmas.
Realizing that he
could choose anything in the world, he asks for one bell from one of the
reindeer's harnesses.
Santa gives him the
bell and he places in the pocket of his robe but later, on the train ride home,
it falls through a hole in his pocket and is lost.
But on Christmas
morning, his sister finds a small package under the tree, behind all of the
other gifts.
And when the boy
opened it he discovered that it was the bell, delivered by Santa who had found
it on the seat of his sleigh.
When the boy rang the
bell he and his sister revelled in the sweet sound.
Their parents of
course were unable to hear it because they did not believe.
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way.
I’ve got a gun and a clever disguise
To rob the bank on its busiest day
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way.
We got caught do you know why?
Scrooge and Grinch
Don’t believe in Christmas
When the carolers come along
They start to swear and cuss
Ebeneezer Scrooge is a skinflint
A mean and grasping old miser
Who buys from the pound shop
And sells them at a fiver
Little more than a grouch
Is the Christmas stealing Grinch
Who to miserable to be happy
He steals your Christmas by the inch
The tale is told of redemption
After the ghostly haunting stunt
The Grinch whole-hearted and loving
Says merry Christmas with a grunt
Scrooge and Grinch never changed
They were just putting on a front
The Trent brothers, George and Robert (Ken Tremblett and Eric Close) have their own toy company and they are given just 12 days to make their presentation to toy superstore owner Lawrence Hennessey (Malcolm Stewart) followed by a meal for him and his wife Sheila (Beverley Breuer) at Roberts house.
The problem is that
toy inventor Robert, is a frazzled widower with two young children, Amelia and
Thomas (Trinity Rose Likins and Jesse Filkow), and is chaotic and disorganised
so the prospect of making the deadline are remote.
That is until a chance
encounter in a supermarket with Lydia (Catherine Bell), a successful
professional organizer, who is constantly trying to grow her business and after
he explains about the challenge he faces and only has 12 days to get his life
and his business in order, she takes him on.
Lydia shows Robert
that this task goes way deeper than messy junk drawers and encompasses every
aspect of his life.
While she's intent on
helping him straighten out details he had long ignored, Robert teaches the buttoned-up
Lydia that messiness can be a delightful part of life and her ambition to
expand her business takes a back seat to love.