THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS

 

A fun Christmas movie in which Luther Krank (Tim Allen) is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas anyway but when only daughter Blair (Julie Gonzalo) leaves and goes to another country he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation cruise with his wife Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) instead.

All they have to do then is resist the pressure from their neighbours to participate in the house decorating contest and survive all the other seasonal nonsense.

But when their daughter calls on Christmas Eve and says she’s coming home for Christmas, it causes an uproar in the Krank household as the family scrambles to create a perfect Christmas from scratch in 12 hours will hilarious effect when the pesky neighbours suddenly become their allies.

PLUM PUDDING

 

Plum pudding is a famous and almost typically English dessert.

It got its name of plum pudding in the 17th century because plum was one of the ingredients.

But quite why they settled on plum pudding as the plum was only one of more than two dozen of the finely chopped ingredients folded into the dough.

The finished steamed pudding adorned with a sprig of holly would be brought flaming to the table and served with great ceremony.

SANTA’S HELPERS HAVE A CRICKET TEAM

 

Santa’s Helpers have a cricket team

And they play when they can

They have no problem getting numbers

And the substitute is twelfth man

THE ORIGINS OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE – THE VICTORIAN WAY

 

For the Victorians, the ideal Christmas tree had to be six branches tall and it was placed on a table covered with a white damask tablecloth. The tree was then decorated with garlands, assorted candies, and delicate paper flowers.

FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS CAROL # 38 THE LORD AT FIRST DID ADAM MAKE

 

The Lord At First Did Adam Make

English West Country traditional Music and lyrics authorship unknown

 

The Lord at first did Adam make
    Out of the dust and clay,
And in his nostrils breathed life,
    E'en as the Scriptures day.
And then in Eden's Paradise
    He placed him to dwell,
That he within it should remain
    To dress and keep it well.

Chorus.
Now let good Christians all begin
    An holy life to live,
And to rejoice and merry be,
    For this is Christmas Eve.

And then within the garden he
    Commanded was to stay,
And unto him in commandment
    These words the Lord did say:
The fruit which in the garden grows
    To thee shall be for meet,
Except the tree in the midst thereof,
    Of which thou shalt not east. Chorus.

For in the day that thou shalt eat,
    Or do it them come nigh;
For if that thou doth eat thereof
    Then surely, thou shalt die.
But Adam he did take no heed
    Unto that only thing,
But did transgress God's holy law,
    And so was wrapped in sin. Chorus.

Now mark the goodness of the Lord
    Which he for mankind bore,
His mercy soon he did extend,
    Lost man for to restore;
And then for to redeem our souls
    From death and hellish thrall,
He said his own dear son should be
    The Saviour of us all. Chorus.

Which promise now is brought to pass,
    Christians, believe it well;
And by the coming of God's dear Son
    We are redeemed from thrall.
Then if we truly do believe,
    And do the thing aright;
Then by his merits we at last
    Shall live in Heaven bright. Chorus.

Now for the blessings we enjoy,
    Which are from Heaven above,
Let us renounce all wickedness
    And live-in perfect love.
Then shall we do Christ's own command,
    Ev'n his own written word,
And when we die in Heaven shall
    Enjoy our living Lord. Chorus.

And now the tide is nigh at hand,
    Int' which our Saviour came;
Let us rejoice, and merry be,
    In keeping of the same.
Let's feed the poor and hungry souls,
    And such as do it crave;
Then when we die, in Heaven sure,
    Our reward we shall have. Chorus.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS MAIL (2010)

 

In this holiday romantic comedy, Kristi North (Ashley Scott) works two months out of the year and always doing the same job, handwriting responses to the children who wrote Santa letters.

Santa Claus, her father, sends her to a different post office depot every year and in the film she’s in Del Vista, California.

However, the Del Vista branch is managed by the egotistical Richard Fuller (Lochlyn Munro) who has no Christmas spirit whatsoever and won’t even allow any Christmas adornments.

He also believes Kristi to be a corporate spy, so he enlists the unwilling assistance of mail carrier Matt Sanders (A.J. Buckley) as assistant manager, and primarily his job was to spy on Kristi and report back to Fuller.

As a single man taking care of an eight-year-old child, his orphaned niece Emily (Piper Mackenzie Harris), Matt takes the job solely because he needs the money.

Unbeknown to him Emily writes to Santa about her Christmas wish which is to see her Uncle Matt happy.

Santa's response, via Kristi, who is unaware that Emily's Uncle Matt is the same as the Matt she works with, leads to Emily trying to act as matchmaker which is where the fun begins.

However, as a result of reluctantly trying to do his spying job Matt gets closer and closer to Kristi and in the process, Matt and Kristi start to fall for each other.

But all does not go smoothly and Fuller reveals all to Kristi out about Matt's clandestine work which almost drives them apart, but everything comes good in the end of a very enjoyable seasonal romantic comedy.

IN SANTA’S CHRISTMAS VILLAGE

In Santa’s Christmas village

What do you call a female Elf?

Well not an Elfess or Elfette

So, the name would be “a Shelf”