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Music Monday – “All the lights are shining/So brightly everywhere/And the sound of children’s/Laughter fills the air”

I was a bit surprised to see which was my most played song over the past month, narrowly defeating a handful of songs that I thought *could* be my most played. Anyhow, since I’ve ended up doing a month-long series of posts about cover versions of popular songs, why not finish off on Christmas Day […]

¶ Posted 25 December 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday, music, xmas

Merry Christmas!

From our family to yours…

¶ Posted 24 December 2017 § Family § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, parents, xmas

Saturday Snap – Rudolph’s Butthole Shooter Recipe

Shea and I went to a Christmas party, hosted and attended by a few of the couples we met through our seasonal campsite at Echo Lake this year. All of us (well, except one camper who was pregnant this summer but made up for it at the Christmas party!) had occasionally drank shooters while listening […]

¶ Posted 23 December 2017 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Randomness § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, recipe, xmas

Friday Fun Link – Sad Jingle Bells

This video takes one of the happiest Christmas songs and turns it sad by playing it in a minor key… I’ve also long believed that you can make this popular jaunty carol into a pretty sad one, simply be reworking the lyrics from present to past tense, changing the odd word and singing all verses […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2017 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, language, music, writing, xmas

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – When A Garbage Can Is A Tasty Gift (December 2007)

Pace thought so anyhow…

¶ Posted 21 December 2017 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, parents, xmas

Music Monday – “I am a poor boy too/I have no gift to bring/That’s fit to give a King/Shall I play for you/On my drum?”

Continuing our December Music Monday theme of re-imagining well-known Christmas songs, let’s go to the ultimate fitting cover – Ringo Starr doing “Little Drummer Boy” (Hmm, I also unintentionally ended up featuring Christmas songs/covers by two of the four Beatles. Perhaps that should’ve been the theme as well?) “The Little Drummer Boy” – Ringo Starr

¶ Posted 18 December 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music

Saturday Snap – ‘Tis The Season (For Candy!)

¶ Posted 16 December 2017 § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, holiday, xmas

Music Monday – “The party’s on/The feeling’s here/That only comes this time of year/Simply having a wonderful Christmastime”

Another re-imagined Christmas classic… “Wonderful Christmastime” – Tom McRae

¶ Posted 11 December 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music

Merry Christmas Drink

Shea made us a very tasty Christmas-themed drink this past weekend featuring peppermint vodka, toffee cream liqueur and chocolate-flavoured whiskey along with a rimmer of melted After 8 peppermint chocolates and crushed candy cane. We didn’t name the drink but I’m going to suggest “Christmas Star” since it certainly was a star of our weekend. […]

¶ Posted 05 December 2017 § Family § Humour § Photo § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, holiday, recipe, xmas

Music Monday – “Once bitten and twice shy/I keep my distance/But you still catch my eye/Tell me, baby/Do you recognize me?/Well, it’s been a year/It doesn’t surprise me”

It hasn’t been consistent but over the years, I’ve often done one off or even a series of Christmas-themed “Music Monday” song posts through December. I thought I’d do it again this year and have lots of ideas for this year’s series from a MetaFilter thread looking at the Wham song “Last Christmas” as well as various other songs […]