Christmas baking is its own special category – and don’t we know it. And normally, it’s a tradition I happily participate in. This time round – the weekends got a bit overly full in December. So for once, the baking has fallen by the wayside. Part of me would like to mourn this a bit …
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A Christmas Carol: pantomime
Time for another Christmassy post. Oh no it isn’t. Oh yes it is… When I started planning out subjects for this month’s posts, pantomime was one that made the list early on. Others will choose to focus their Christmas ‘must dos’ on elves on shelves (or not, depending on this year’s press about it), cookie …
A Christmas Carol: the Christmas concert
It’s the end of term here today. Time for a Christmas sing-song. To be honest, it’s the first time we’ve graduated to attending a concert, rather than a nativity. It feels appropriate to mark it somehow. I keep writing about A Formal Feeling as one of my Christmas reads. One of the elements I like …
Santa has not been good
The origin of this idea is the phrase ‘Has Santa been good to you?’ It’s more of a thing in Scotland, by my reckoning, though it seems to be in lots of places now. I wondered what it would be like if Santa had not been good: not that we’re having bad Santas on this …
A Christmas Carol: Christmas films
The thing about Christmas films is the looove. Love to the extent that small children will watch them, repeatedly, even in August. That’s how much love. I haven’t had to watch full-on snow-and-Santa outside of December too many times. But there are a couple of kids’ DVDs in our collection where the Christmas version seems …