SANTA’S SOJOURN

 

Since the 1950s Santa Claus has, once the Christmas rush is over of course, happily sojourned at Napapiiri, near Rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle.

While there he has always been more than happy to meet children and the young at heart.

His visits to Napapiiri had become such a regular occurrence that in 1985 he established his own Santa Claus Office there.

He is available almost every day of the year to hear the children’s requests and to talk to children who have arrived from around the world.

A Village is now well established, and it is now the location of Santa's main Post Office, which receives Christmas letters from children in every corner of the world.

TORTUOUS TUNE

 

Christmas has inevitably become the time of year when every man and his dog decides to release a Christmas song.

Most of which would be instantly forgettable if it were not for the operators of supermarkets, department stores, shopping centers and hotels.

The insidious recordings of the Christmas wannaby’s are on a spooled tape which is played discriminately on shop floors, concourses, hotel lobbies and elevators inflicting customers and staff alike with the tortuous tones from October onwards.

HOLLY DEAREST

 

Icicles hang from the gutters

All on the landscape is still

Ice crystals pattern the glass

Snow stands deep on the sill

Curtains drawn against the dark

As a fire roars in the hearth

While my darling lays in my arms

And love burns hot in my heart

HAPPY STRESSLESS

 

A good friend of mine

Does his Christmas shopping

In less than two hours

With decs for party popping

And Gifts for twenty-five

Friends and family

All on Christmas Eve

Including a six-foot tree

FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG # 1

 

Despite the general awfulness of the Christmas song there are however always exceptions to the rule, and I have a short list of personal favorites.

Without exception all my choices not only include the song but the best performer of that song and so in no particular order here is my first selection.

 

“White Christmas” written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby.

 

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA’S BOOT CAMP (2016)

 

Exasperated by bratty, ungrateful and self-centered children kids, Santa's Elves, led by the militant and aptly named Diva (Ansley Williams) decide to go on strike.

As a result, Santa is forced to bring six exceptionally mischievous and ill-behaved teens, from where they are causing havoc at the Mall, to teach them a lesson, and in addition to help those Elves who haven’t gone on strike, and they are conscripted into Santa’s Boot Camp which is not unlike “Breakfast Club” at Christmas.

However, the unscrupulous youths don’t take well to their incarceration at all well, but after several unsuccessful attempts to escape, including stealing Santa's sleigh, they are forced to watch “naughty/nice” videos where they have to vote on kids' behaviour, which they very much enjoy until the moment they see videos of their own behavior and have to vote themselves naughty, then they slowly begin to change.

This is a fun holiday movie for the whole entire family to enjoy which doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Erica Bierman as Twinkle and Storm Reid as Sparkle are the stars.

CELTIC YULE

The Celts used to bring a large log indoors as a tribute to the sun god this was called the Yule log.

Celts in Cornwall, during the Christmas reveling would chalk a symbol of a man on the Yule log in a cheery reference to the human sacrifices who used to be thrown on the bonfire.