To get you in the mood for christmas and help you get your christmas shopping done have stored up some present ideas for you to browse and shop.
I’ve started collecting the Christmas Drinks Cabinet from The Calendars ~ quite an enjoyable part of Christmas.
Worth a browse ~ just choose your favourites, (we have a well stocked cabinet now collected from the end of month parties)
If you want a Liqueur selection we are doing the 8 days of Liqueur ~ you can get a wide choice of liqueur at the supermarket now.
(You get a different ghost story each 8 days of Christmas and can have a different liqueur with each story, there are a few new ones this year)
a-nostalgic-christmas/drinks-cabinet
At least you can get some food and drink now.
Enjoy!!!
Found this blog in storage.
Ghosts of Covid Christmas Past
(Including the film the Grinch and an explantion of the film. We decided not to be Grinches in our household as it is letting the Grinch win who has created the current mess of the world, hope this helps you if you are fed up too.)
Movie of the week
How The Grinch Stole Christmas! ( 1966)
Don’t let the Grinch Grind You Down ~ Have a good Christmas, that will annoy it then as it wants you to be as unhappy as it is ~ just saying in MHO. Then when it realises it can’t upset you maybe it will melt and put the clothes that fit back in the shops. Try altering them. Loading my ideas into a new blog, might offer you inspiration to create a christmas dress for yourself.
Friday
1806: Frederick Count Regula is sentenced to death and quartered as atonement for the bestial murder of 12 virgins at his castle Andomai in the Sander Valley.
Plot: Two professional illusionists Felix Manderville (Vincent Price, Madhouse) and his wife Rebecca (Martha Hyer, Houseboat) help abduct unsuspecting female victims with their magic tricks for an international ring of white slave traders. While vacationing in Tangiers, American businessman (George Nader, The Million Eyes of Su-Muru) and his wife (Anne Smyrner, Reptilicus) are drawn into a kidnapping plot when their friend (Maria Rohm, Count Dracula) becomes the underground ring’s latest victim. Running against time, they only have a couple of days to find her before she’s gone for good. Harry Alan Towers (The Mangler) under his usual pseudonym Peter Welbeck wrote the screenplay for this top-notch thriller directed by Jeremy Summers (The Vengeance of Fu Manchu).
Saturday
Walk Club
Delia’s Classic Christmas Part 1
Just set to autoplay for the whole series and all your christmas cookery needs.
Enjoy!!!
This is just one program in 3 parts so you are better just watching it on auto.
Christmas Playlists to cook with
(I use these playlists to cook with since Zenmass, I still do a bit of cooking)
The original cast of “Father Knows Best” returns for the second reunion movie. After learning that none of the children will be home for Christmas, Jim and Margaret decide to sell their house.
New Series Starts Tonight
S01E01 – Plough Your Own Furrow
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If you purchased off Amazon or want to purchase
Margo in Party mode with a 70’s voluminous cleavage evening dress.
Black Tie Occasion Dress
Margo’s Drinks cabinet is where the Christmas Drinks Cabinet idea started leading to the end of month Parties.
Enjoy!!!
A milestone birthday convinces Tom Good to make a change. He talks his wife, Barbara, into giving up the so-called rat race and joining him in a life of simplicity and self-sufficiency. They convert their suburban home into a farm, planting crops in the back garden and bringing in pigs and chickens (including a rooster they name Lenin). The new use of their property comes as something of a shock to their very proper neighbours, Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. A social climber of the first order, Margo can’t bear having chickens roaming the back garden. She’ll have to put up with it, though.
We watch this every year now.
New Series Starts Tonight
S1E3 The Angling Club Christmas Party
A mousy clerk named Edward Robinson, completely dominated by his stern fiancée, buys a flamboyant sport car as an act of independence and he embarks himself in a romantic adventure when he hides a beautiful cat burglar and her loot, a priceless diamond collier. Starring Nicholas Farrell, Cherie Lunghi, Rupert Everett & Margery Mason
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Agatha Christie is generally considered the Queen of Crime Fiction. Her novels, stories and plays bamboozle legions of murder aficionados with complex plotting and dazzling denouements. But no mystery she ever wrote surpassed the one she lived. This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. Dustin Hoffman plays a brash American journalist who tries his own hand at sleuthing when he sets out the find the missing novelist (Vanessa Redgrave), a shy, introspective woman whose marriage to a war hero (Timothy Dalton) has foundered. What really happened? The world doesn’t know and Dame Agatha never told. But as suspensefully directed by Michael Apted (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Gorky Park), Agatha offers a spellbinding solution.
Jeremy Brett in Kingsley Amis’ “The Ferryman”* 1974 Natasha Parry, Lesley Dunlop
The Deadly Affair (1967) stars James Mason, Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell, and Harriet Andersson in a gripping espionage drama directed by Sidney Lumet. Adapted from John le Carré’s novel Call for the Dead, the film follows British intelligence officer Charles Dobbs as he investigates what appears to be a routine suicide—only to uncover a tangled web of betrayal, secrets, and espionage. With muted color tones, melancholy performances, and Lumet’s precise direction, the film trades gadgetry for human vulnerability, offering a world-weary look at spycraft and deception.
Sunday
Highly recommed Sainsburys corn fed chicken. You can eat it on it’s own with chips (weigh the chips if you are slimming) and salad as it tasted gorgeous.
This is a great meal option idea if you are slimming, the spritzer idea makes a small bottle go further. Having tinned fruit for dessert will save you more calories, you could do the low fat cream idea agian till christmas.
Enjoy!!!
corn-fed-whole-british-chicken
Sunday Matinee
Novelist Melanie Flood (Lana Turner), suspicious that her preoccupied husband, Steve (Dean Martin), is fooling around, does some digging and finds that he’s been betting on horses — and losing. Concocting a clever plan to cure her spouse of his habit, she sweet-talks Steve’s business associate, Clint (Eddie Albert), into helping her pose as Steve’s anonymous bookie. Convinced that she will save the money he loses at the track, Melanie finds herself in hot water when Steve starts winning.
The determined mother of a murdered Marine seeks to expose her son’s widow and gain custody of her granddaughter. Stars: Patty Duke, Martin Sheen, Alexandra Powers, Jason London, Jeff Kober, Charles S. Dutton, Cole Hauser, Danny Nucci Directed by: Michael Switzer
Mary Kay movie: Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay Ash
The Mary Kay movie about Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics — Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay — a biographical comedy-drama starring Shirley MacLaine, Shannen Doherty, & Parker Posey.
Mary Kay shares her “why” & her personal past with a reporter interested in getting a big story, all while BeautiControl is chomping at the bit to try to dethrone the makeup monarch.
You can save the playlist to your You Tube.
Synopsis / Plot the high-school mattress when she comes home one day from school to find her Mum as dead as a door knob in the tub. You see her Mum has cut her wrists after a long unrewarding career as the town mattress. Fortunately for Luci, her Mum’s childhood friend is now a very successful upper-middle class doctor who has decided to take Luci home to his family (on a trial basis). Luci’s new family (The Quayles) has a few issues. The father’s libedo is on the wane and he has a stick permanently stuck up his butt. The mother was “convent schooled” and misses the good old days of snuggling up with a pretty young girl. The son is an amateur peeper without the libedo problem but also with a stick up his butt. Luci arrives in the midst of all this with her one suitcase, a bit unbalanced from her mother’s recent suicide, and does everything she can to fit in with her new family – more or less.
New Series Starts This Week
Wheeltappers & Shunters Social Club – Granada TV – Series 1 Episode 1
Will take this off if it offends anyone.
New Series Starts Tonight
Conclusion
Have a great weekend
Hope this helps to get you in the mood for Christmas
Saphire
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