There are only two more
recording sessions to go before the end of the year, both of which I’m looking
forward to; The CTRL and DH Lawrence and the Vaudeville Skiffle Show. I didn’t
want to do one on Christmas Eve of course, as we regard Christmas Eve night as
a pyjama evening with Mandi’s cherry Coke gammon for dinner and watching The Snowman. Channel Four have been guilty in the past of showing
The Snowman on the wrong day, last year
I seem to remember it going out on Christmas Day, when we know that it is
essential Christmas Eve viewing. There was a sequel last year called The Snowman and the Snowdog, which wasn’t great, and proved
that some things are best left alone. One of the overhyped additions to the
Christmas television schedules this year is the follow up to Open All Hours with David Jason’s character now in charge of
the shop. This could be either brilliant or terrible, but I would be very
surprised if it wasn’t of a high standard seeing as David Jason hasn’t ever
appeared in anything rubbish. His usual high standard might turn around and
bite him on the arse if it is rubbish, as the public seem to only remember the
flops and he did manage to avoid any major flak for the final three episodes of
Only Fools and Horses that should never
have happened. We seem to be lagging behind as far as Christmas is concerned
this year due to my heavy workload and haven’t even watched a great deal of
Christmas films, even worse is the fact that we haven’t even bought this year’s
Radio Times and TV Times
yet. In fact we haven’t even been to Marks and Spencer for our annual visit to
buy the Christmas biscuits. Maybe I’m actually asleep and having one of those anxieties
dreams where you haven’t sorted anything out and have no time left to do
anything.
I often dream that I am
involved in a normal, run of the mill sort of day; the shops are open, the
buses are running, and life is generally going on. However, in the dream it is
Christmas Day and I am wondering why the day is no longer special and trying to
remember when this transition happened. In many ways I can actually see this
happening in the future, Christmas is already being reduced to a two day event
and one day it’ll be something that just happens to be a day mentioned in diaries.
It has already happened to Sunday, (it’s even become a working day for me now
and don’t forget that self-employed people don’t get double pay for Sunday) and
has happened to a lot of the bank holidays throughout the year. There will come
a time in the future when parents take their kids to McDonalds on Christmas Day
before popping to the supermarket.
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