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Friday, December 26, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas — Day Ten: Christmas and the Sanity Clause

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  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 ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas — Day Nine: Did You Know… A Christmas Carol Is the Most Remade Movie of All Time?

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  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...
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...
Friday, December 19, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 - Day Six: The Year Parliament Cancelled the Festive Season

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  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...
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 ...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 - Day Two:  The Christmas Truce, 1914 - Football in the Trenches

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