Tag Archive | christmas
Video Saturday – The Beatles
. The Christmas #1 December 1965. A double A side (kids, ask your parents) with “Day Tripper” and a collaboration between Lennon, McCartney and Harrison and featuring a foot-pumped “Salvation Army” harmonium, it just wouldn’t sound the same without the harmonium would it ? I love this song, its so evocative to me, I hear [...]
Fairy Helpline
Its a serious topic, every year hundreds of christmas tree fairies are physically abused by their owners, lets all stop this now, zero tolerance of fairy abuse should be our target for next Christmas, remember, its not big and its not clever. My family are seeking an injunction on my drawings, they can’t stop me [...]
The evil santa
This one brought the compliments flooding in from my own family, “Dad, thats sick” “I don’t know whats going on inside your head these days” “You need help” Is what they said, and more, wait ’till you see tomorrows.
Deep and crisp and even…
The sub title for this one is “This is the last bloody year I do this, my back is bloody killing me…”
Joe the Butcher
Time for the annual recital of the (true) Joe the Butcher story. Joe the Butcher was, of course, a butcher, a traditional butcher in those days when proper butchers worked from small shops and chopped the meat up there in front of your eyes and nothing was available already cut, weighed and shrink wrapped from [...]
Estee bloody Lauder
“I miss getting an Estee Lauder gift set at Christmas” she murmured one evening last week while perusing the ads in a trashy TV paper that would undoubtably mention my cousins name somewhere within its tome. For those males reading this of the wedded variety you will understand that its this time of year when [...]
My Nativity
Let me start by saying this, I was a shy child, never one for venturing forth on an acting or singing career, not a one to put myself forward for such things, so much more surprising then when I was chosen to do a reading at the school nativity play which, with hindsight, was always [...]
Mr Holmes and his Ambitious Nativity Plans
So, ’tis the night before Christmas and all over the land parents will be tucking up their kinder for a sleepless night of “has he been yet” questioning while memories of their angels recent appearances in the school nativity play will bring lumps to throats and tears to the corner of eyes. I bloody hated [...]
