Christmas Jukebox: Maybe This Christmas
For those of you already feeling a little frazzled by the festive period, I think this song might help a little. I think it is lovely. A nice simple video for it too.
Wait until next year
Putting off what could be done tomorrow, today
December 17, 2014
Advent Calendar 2014: Day Seventeen
Today I brave the work Christmas meal and party. I have a festive sweater on and everything. For those interested, I shall be eating turkey and Christmas pudding rather than any of the other more esoteric menu offerings, as I believe you should always eat turkey and Christmas pudding at a Christmas meal, no matter how many Christmas meals you have each December. Read the rest of this entry »
December 16, 2014
Christmas Jukebox: Last Christmas
This week I’ve been listening to probably the least festive album ever, Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible. The new remaster is excellent, for what it is worth. Anyway, that led me to think about this cover version of a song that is perhaps one of the sadder Christmas songs. Read the rest of this entry »
December 16, 2014
Advent Calendar 2014: Day Sixteen
Well, at the weekend we finally got the Christmas tree up and decorated. So it is beginning to look a lot more like Christmas in my household. Read the rest of this entry »
December 15, 2014
Advent Calendar 2014: Day Fifteen
Funny to think that smoking used to be allowed in pubs. I remember the scaremongering when the ban came in – the predictions that nobody would go out, that every pub would close and the world would fall apart. This, of course, didn’t quite happen. I remember the early days of the ban when we all realised that without the fags pubs are really horrible, smelly places. Now the better pubs aren’t so smelly, and the bad pubs can be sniffed out, quite literally, within moments. Read the rest of this entry »
