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Showing posts with label childhood Christmas memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label childhood Christmas memories. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Eight: The Christmas Selection Boxes That Never Lasted Till Boxing Day

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    There are certain Christmas traditions that almost everyone who grew up in Britain during the 1960s, 70s or even 80s would experience. ...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 - Day Seven: When Snow Was Proper Snow

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  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...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 - Day Five: Shopping like It's The 1970s

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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 ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 -  Day Four: Brussels Sprouts and the Mysterious Christmas Pong

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    The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 is my festive wander through memories, traditions, mishaps, and moments — from childhood Christmases ...
Monday, December 15, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Three: 1970s Christmas TV: A Promise of Endless Excitement

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  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 ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 - Day One: The Christmas  Top 40 And The Number One We Waited All Year For

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The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 is my festive wander through memories, history, traditions, mishaps and moments — from childhood Christma...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Christmas Comes But Once a Year — But Does It Have to Start in November?

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I nipped into my local ASDA yesterday and was greeted, actually ambushed, by their Grinch-inspired Christmas extravaganza plastered across...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Eight: There is No Boxing on Boxing Day.

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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...
Friday, December 22, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Six: Working For the Man.

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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...
Friday, December 15, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Two: What A Load of Rubbish! Tin bins and their uses. Britain before recycling and colourd bins

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Back in the 1960s and 70s, every house in Britain had one (at least) of these.  The tin rubbish bin.  This was long before recycling and dif...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day One: The Christmas Radio Times - A History Measured In Inflation

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Well, this will be ambitious. I came up with this idea, a blog variation on the twelve days of Christmas, ambitiously called the twelve post...