Friday 2 September 2022

CHRISTMAS SCENE

 

Snow blankets the ground

Lights twinkle and flash and chase

Reds, blues, white

From Chimney pot

To garden gate

Lights of every hue

And a five foot plastic Winnie the Pooh

Santa’s, elves and reindeer

Stand guard on front lawns

Neon signs point the way for Santa

A typical scene now you might think

Could be anywhere in the world

The only thing to give away the location

Is the fact it’s still November

So welcome to

Christmas in Chav land

CHRISTMAS TURKEY

 

Laid naked on the kitchen table

White flesh from leg to breast

A Christmas bird to be enjoyed

My table was truly blessed

 

I set about the job in hand

Getting the bird prepared

And by using all my expertise

No effort at all was spared

 

Having greased the old bird well

The meaty legs spread wide

And I began to stuff the bird

I was really in my stride

 

When the bird had been well stuffed

It lay resting on the cooker

Smelling of sage and onion

The bird really was a looker

 

Then I looked up at the kitchen clock

Panic filled me and I began to fret

I shouted to my wife “quick put you pants on”

I haven’t prepared the turkey yet

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS PROMISE

 

Michael Thompson (Patrick Muldoon) is an uptight city accountant who is struggling to raise his teenage daughter Chloe (Mandalynn Carlson) all on his own after his wife’s tragic death.

Being a single parent and having to work long hours Chloe doesn’t see as much of him as she would like which leads to her attention seeking behaviour, so when he gets a call from Cliff Harrison (Rick Herod) to help save their family stables before ruthless bankers shut them down, he wonders if the country life is just what he and Chloe need to start over.

However when Michael arrives to sort out a farm’s financial problems he finds that Cliff's daughter Samantha (Charisma Carpenter) is not as appreciative of his help as rest of the family (Sydney (Dominique Swain), Jackson (Jaren Lewison), and Ben (Billy Tilk)) are for his help.

But as they search for ways to save the family's legacy, Romance develops between the accountant and Samantha while the baddies in the story seem hell bent on acquiring the farms best horse called Holly which is prised by the family as it was Cliff’s deceased wife’s favourite.

I COULD BE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE

I could be your Christmas tree,

Strung with tinsel and lit, brightly

You can trim me with ribbons and bows

Baubles and bells anything goes

I shall be greeted with gasps and wows

And you can hide gifts beneath my boughs

You won’t regret it if you buy me

So let me be your Christmas tree 

21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 82

Christmas is coming the geese are getting fat

Pick me out the fattest one and we’ll have that

It needs to be a big one for our Christmas feast

In fact just give us the one that’s clinically obese 

CHRISTMAS ACROSS THE SEA

 

I am of occidental origin

And I should make it clear

That I have lived all my life

In the northern hemisphere

 

And every year, except this one

I’ve spent Christmas in blighty

This year, I was invited to my daughters

I tried to decline, politely

 

She doesn’t live in Britain

But in the land of the kangaroo

Christmas day in high summer

Oh what an awful to-do

 

The hot sun was like the Grinch

Not a cloud in the sky since dawn

It ruined the day for me

And it made the eggnog warm

 

Flies buzzed round the turkey

My hat was stuck to my head

No queen’s speech on the telly

I wish I’d stayed home instead

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ONCE UPON A HOLIDAY (2015)

 

Katherine (Briana Evigan) is a Royal Princess and is in New York just before Christmas for a series of official engagements.

But she just wants an hour to herself out of her busy schedule to visit an art exhibition.

But when her Aunt Margaret (Jacqueline Samuda), who runs her life, tells her it was not possible and to stop being selfish she escapes her entourage to explore New York anyway and as she is tired of her diamond-studded and privileged life and the royal responsibilities that went along with being a royal princess she decided to take longer than an hour.

But when a pair of street hustlers steal her purse and prised camera, a good Samaritan, a young man called Jack (Paul Campbell) comes to her aid and ends up sweeping her off of her feet when he shows her his side of the city.

And when her true identity is finally revealed it is Jack who arranges for her to view the exhibition unheeded after calling in a favour.

It’s a lovely film in which, Harry (Jay Brazeau) steals the show as Jack’s friend, in this gentle heart-warming Christmas tale.