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leftatthetrafficlights

Glad you're feeling better! 🙌 Hope you enjoy your time off and your film festival!!🎄

ladyholly

Enjoy your films. Mr LH wont have Christmas films at any price except possibly Die Hard if there is nothing else available.

Sun_Addict

Good news you feel better and have finished work for Christmas 🥳 Enjoy the Christmas films. I’ve only watched 2 so far - Christmas with the Kranks and my absolute favourite Love Actually. If I can manage Christmas Carol (the George C Scott as Scrooge version) and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, anything else will be a bonus 😆

lucielle

Enjoy your films. We’ve managed a couple but some are too sickly sweet!

L

flipflopflo

Muppets Christmas Carol is a must for Christmas. We watch it every year and this year we will be going to the cinema to see it, which we are all excited by. 

savingholmes

Muppets, Grinch and Nightmare b4 Xmas...

foxgloves

Lovely idea about the 10 Christmas films, @Blackcats - low or no-cost festive fun. I have sent about the same amount of cards as usual. I have so little family, I do try to keep in touch, even if it is mostly just at Christmas & I like to drop a line to old work & singing friends too. I do like e-cards/emails, etc, & use WhatsApp on a daily basis to chat to various friends & family, but nothing is as nice as a proper letter which plops through the door onto the mat, meaning I can sit & enjoy somebody's news over a coffee. I've recently joined the Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society of Great Britain. I'd hate for handwritten letters to die out......they were a big part of Mr F & I getting together, as we were long-distance in the early days of our relationship, & I've kept them all. I think my love of handwritten letters is also partly underpinned by my love of stationery & nice pens!
F

savingholmes

@foxgloves - love your quote in the signature. Very true.

Blackcats

Thank you for your film suggestions.
MrBC chose Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark which whilst it's not a Christmas themed film he asserted that it was THE Christmas Day film at some point in the distant past.  I conceded this as it gives me leeway to get some of my choices onto the playlist.  

@flipflopflo I do have Muppets Christmas Carol on the list.  When it was first released my friend and I arranged a treat day with our children - lunch at Pizza Hut 😋 which was a treat for them and then to the cinema to see Muppets Christmas Carol.  Well within the first 2 minutes my youngest was sobbing with fear and so I ended up sitting in the foyer with them for the entire film.  So I've never actually seen it.
@foxgloves - what a lovely society to be a member of and a perfect reason to have lovely stationery and pens.  I used to love the notepaper and envelope sets that I got at Christmas as a child - the ones in a little folder with a pen and the packets of pretty notelets.

after 7 days of snow on the ground and freezing temperatures the rain has come and it's marginally warmer.  We did enjoy wrapping up warm (so many layers that I looked like the Michelin man) and walking around our local beauty spot and warming up with a flask of tea.  So pretty to see the snowy landscape stretching for miles.

we have a day of chores planned for tomorrow.  I thought I'd eaten a financial frog but sadly it's regurgitated with a demand for more information - sigh.  OH has got car related tasks to complete.

found a bag of paella in the freezer so that will be tea tomorrow and we've got a bottle of sangria in the cupboard - would be rude not to!

snuggling down to watch Love Actually now!

lucielle

Mrs thatcher ‘ you little minx!’
L