I was supposed to be on the
radio this lunchtime, but as I have Emily staying I decided against it. I’m not
sure how disappointed the listeners were, but I didn’t have time to do a
pre-recorded show (something I don’t really like doing) so just didn’t bother.
The play out system would have just randomly played a selection of songs from The Sunday Alternative library, and given that I wasn’t
emailed to ask where I was, I assumed that most people haven’t bothered
appearing live during Christmas.
We went to my dad’s for Sunday
lunch, although we had sausage and mash because we all get a bit fed up of
roast dinners at this point during the holiday. It was enough that I remembered
that it was Sunday at all, because during this week we forget what day it is.
Jack seems to have taken to
Emily quite well, allowing her to walk her to my dad’s and back. It was nice to
get Emily out of the house as she didn’t go outside at all yesterday, not
even wanting to come with me over the park to play ball with Jack for an hour.
Our Christmas film of choice
tonight was Home Alone, a film that I have for some
reason never seen before. Actually, it is one of those films that I’m never
sure if I have seen it or not. Maybe I’ve just seen all the best bits on clip
shows of the best Christmas films? I certainly don’t remember the nice ending
with the next door neighbour, but most of the comedy business with the burglars
was familiar to me. As a Christmas film it isn’t the best ever made, but it was
by no means the worst. Funny really how a little while ago I wrote about Mara Wilson, the child actress from Miracle On 34th
Street among other things, and how she had grown up to be a normal
person, in contrast to Macaulay Culkin who has had a very colourful few years
and somehow managed to live to be 33 years old.
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