The festive season has finally arrived! That's right, the Advent Calendars are up, the wooly hats are on, the fires are being lit and the cheesy Christmas songs are on the raido. Even Dad, Scrooge that he usually is, has already got a Christmas tree! This year is shaping up to be the most festive of them all! It's only a matter of time before we're watching Wallace and Gromit, sipping mulled wine (or non-alcoholic mulled wine, perhaps) and enjoying warm mince pies. Yep, Christmas is one of my favourite times of year. Larkin would hate it. Larkin would moan about the consumerism. But I don't care about Larkin. In fact...does anyone? He was the Scrooge of his time...
Anyway, with reference to my title, I recently put together an uber-cool History presentation about "The March of the Blanketeers" (long story), in which MSN Santa gets shot by the local Yeomanry. Quite what he was doing there I'll never know, but any free guest appearances are warmly welcomed. It's funnier than it sounds, my brother and I had a massive laugh over it last night. But yeah, technically I killed Santa. Which is sort of like shooting the sherrif. See what I did there? No, maybe not.
On completely a different subject, I've rejigged the home page just a little to promote feedback a little more. You'll notice that instead of "comments" there are now "most interesting thoughts...", and you can let me know with extreme ease whether the post was good, bad, or annoyingly Mr Bennet (ugly). Heroes in-joke: Mr Bennet is a character who is deliberately ambiguous; it's hard to tell at any given moment whose side he's on. Now there's a clear company v Company thing going on, the "sides" are clearer, but when it goes back to just being one Company, you can be sure the moral vagueness will return. Anyway, you can also (scroll down...keep scrolling...) play the Heartbeat Challenge at the bottom of the page. I nabbed this addictive little SFG themed pac-man off of their MySpace page. It's quite good fun.
Last, but not least, I plan to leave some interesting Xmas facts at the bottom of each post in the run up to the big day. Sort of like an advent calendar. As I didn't do one yesterday, I'll do two today. Better start collecting! See you tomorrow...
Jack
- Bono, Paul McCartney and George Michael were the only artists to sing on both the original Band Aid record and the 2004 edition. Bono sings the same line in both versions.
- The original species of tree used for Christmas trees was the Silver Fir.
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