I happen to like Christmas and all that entails. Y'know ... presents, TV Christmas specials, family arguments, turkey dinners, crackers, Christmas songs, "It's a Wonderful Life", Oxford Street lights, that cold nip in the air, Christmas parties. Yep ... commercialisation et al.

"It's a Wonderful Life" ... perhaps my favourite film of all time. When you're watching the thing for the thousandth time, its difficult to be judgemental. It's so familiar - it's one of the family.

"A Christmas Carol". I've not read many books, but I've read this one several times. And seen the film. Make that film-S. There's so many of them. And they are nearly all good. It's damn near impossible to make a bad movie out such a fantastically heart-warming tale.
We even did a version in one of our Sprout musicals.


The Christmas shows were my idea so any Ebeneezers out there can "humbug" in my direction.