Who said it? Donald Trump or Michael Scott?
How all Christmas movies are connected
Malala shuts down Donald Trump
The writer of Love Actually rewatches it and live tweets all sorts of information
Americanisms the Brits love to hate
Why you should make you kids watch “Friends”
Archbishop Sentamu says we should have a phone fast on Christmas Day
People fail to charge Copyright fees to Happy Birthday
I’d call this a fairly eclectic mix. I will put in a disclaimer early on that these are not all Christian songs – shock horror! I have put together a mixture of my absolute favourite songs that are justifiable to play at this time of year! We have Worship, Pop, Classical, Carol and Folk
What are your favourite Christmas Songs?
The People Who Walk In Darkness – Based on Isaiah 9, and just so celebratory!
Merry Christmas Everyone – I find it extremely difficult not to dance to this song!
Christmas Festival Overture – My favourite bit of this one is when Jingle Bells turns into O Come All Ye Faithful, it’s so clever!
O Come All Ye Faithful – Who doesn’t love a descant at Christmas?
Ding Dong Merrily on High – I love to just listen to the glockenspiel in this one!
I’ve been getting Advent Challenges in my inbox each morning from The Bible Society. Each day they send you three challenges to encourage you to do something for others during this season. The idea is that generally you’ll find one of them that you can manage to do.
On Wednesday 2nd December, the three options given were:
So I thought to myself, you know what, I might give this one a miss, there’s many more days left this month, I can do two challenges another day and catch up.
On the Saturday, late morning, I came downstairs and opened the lounge curtains, and saw that we had a new navy blue parasol lying on the ground – t was extremely windy on Friday night! So what did I have to do? That’s right, go and knock on my neighbour’s doors to find out whose it was!
Doesn’t God have a good sense of humour?! 🙂
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If you remember this, you’re really old
Christian Apps that should exist
Christmas Carol Service Bingo cards
Milton Jones on Comedy, Christianity and Evangelism
Something else that’s become something of an annual tradition – my Friday Five Favourite Christmas adverts from this year 🙂
Mulberry
IKEA
Sainsburys
Lidl
Asda – this is mainly for the car covered in fairy lights 🙂
I haven’t put John Lewis in this year, mainly due to the science issues….! That said, a good remake has been done, so as a bonus, please enjoy the below:
**UPDATE**
A late entry from the Co-op!
**UPDATE 2**
And a superb one from vodafone!
I was excited to read this entry in the Austen Project, and see how McCall Smith had managed to modernise this story, particularly as it’s been done successfully before in the 90s film, Clueless.
Sadly, I don’t think this book did as good a job. Yes the English is modernised so it’s easy to read, and Emma now drives a mini, but she still lives in a 14 bedroom house and has a governess – even if they do comment how unusual it is for this day and age, why do it?!
I quite liked that Emma had been to Bath Uni, as that’s where I went, but it sounds more like she went to Bath Spa as she did a “decorative arts” course!
It was a fun book, the characters are generally exactly as they should be, but I just don’t think the modern day aspect came across which was a shame. If you were just reading it as a book with no blurb and no pre-conceptions then of course it was great!
I’m looking forward to seeing who they’re going to get to write the next one in this series now, I believe Pride and Prejudice is due next!
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