Now we are getting serious about this Christmas thing. The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Victorian set version of the Charles Dickens story. Oh yes, there is the line in the sand, come at me on this if you dare. There is no messing about. This a...
We went to the panto! Sorry but it’s 24 hours later and I’m still on a high. For mini monkey’s birthday treat we went to The Everyman Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto. There was no way we were missing out and as a family of bloody...
Christmas films come in all shapes and sizes. There’s the family film, the showstopper, the serial killer on plane and then there is Cary Grant, David Niven and Loretta Young being glorious in The Bishop’s Wife. David Niven is the bishop,...
I can barely write this as the thought of the Christmas double issue Radio Times makes me so fizzy I have to do a little dance. The annual marking up of the Christmas Radio Times is more than a tradition, it’s an institution. Our family have been...
I do like a Christmas film. Give me a snowy scene, Christmas tunes and oodles of good cheer and I’m all over it. I have lots of personal favourites but at Christmas I can suspend more disbelief, ignore the plot crowbars and do more rooting for the underdog....
Winter is a time for reading a ripping yarn. It’s dark and cold. You want a comfy sofa, a warm fire, a massive cuppa or something more medicinal and a book. It’s a time for Dickens and ghost stories. Kids want in on this too. We still do...
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