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  For many, Christmas ends on 25 December, or the day after Boxing Day . The decorations come down, television schedules return to normal, a...

  It was New Year’s Day, sometime back in the late 1960s, and my school football shirt was dirty and needed cleaning. I had a big game comin...

  The Marx Brothers used to be on television over Christmas all the time when I was growing up. Their films, A Night at the Opera, A Day at ...

  The many faces of Ebenezer Scrooge and a timeless tale of redemption. It’s that time of year. Christmas television in the UK would hardl...

    There are certain Christmas traditions that almost everyone who grew up in Britain during the 1960s, 70s or even 80s would experience. ...

  Will we have a White Christmas? Where I live, it looks like rain.  There was a time when I remembered snow at Christmas. There’s a saying...

  Christmas Was Once Banned in Britain It’s strange to imagine, in an age where Christmas seems to start in October, as the shops gear up fo...

It’s Christmas, 2025 , but yesterday out shopping, I was reminded of the 1970s . No, it wasn’t the sound of Slade or Wizard singing about ...

    The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 is my festive wander through memories, traditions, mishaps, and moments — from childhood Christmases ...

  There was a time, and it wasn’t that long ago, when Christmas television was every bit as exciting as the presents under the tree. It was ...

      The First World War was unlike anything the world had seen before. A conflict of mud, wire, artillery and unimaginable loss. By winte...

The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 is my festive wander through memories, history, traditions, mishaps and moments — from childhood Christma...

The Twelve Days are 25 December – 5 January, with the last day being Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve), and this is the final post of this series...

On Twitter X yesterday, someone mentioned the use of em dash in their writing, I wondered what it was. I had to look it up. A dash is long...

 

I didn't mean for there to be a part two to the writing itch post.  I hadn't planned it, but maybe it is something to do with the ti...

When I was a lad, I would wonder why Boxing Day was called Boxing Day?  No one in my family had an answer to it.  I came to what I thought w...

So, it's Christmas Day, and I'm writing a blog post.  It will just be a quick one today, because if you feel the urge to write, then...

My first job, other than doing errands and helping out at home for pocket money, was a paper round. I remember the cold dark nights and earl...

 A while back, someone posted the image below on Twitter X. It speaks for itself. We live in a world where you can buy a book, new, for a fe...