There is a danger that I could get used to doing nothing creative all day, although I doubt it as I have been itching to start writing again or recording the two remaining audio books I need to do before the end of the year. I am looking forward to being able to make good on my New Year’s resolution to do at least one thing useful a day, even while I’m watching a film with Mandi I am planning something. Today I came up with the idea of setting up another blog devoted to reviews of films in my collection of adaptations of A Christmas Carol, but then I decided against it as I am putting out quite a lot of free content and although the PayPal button brings in a good amount for the fund to help me continue to provide free entertainment, I could put this idea into Kindle form to bring in some money that way. I’m not Santa Claus after all so I shouldn’t have to rely entirely on donations. It is nice that people drop a virtual coin in my upturned hat of course so I will still be putting out the freebies to be enjoyed. Talking of which, my Bandcamp profile has plenty to choose from.

We were both in a better mood today despite the boiler still being knackered, so we went to my dad’s house for showers before we headed for town. Mandi wanted once again to buy Christmas decorations so after a nice cappuccino stop we headed for John Lewis (I’ll be writing about this year’s Christmas adverts once I have seen them all, I have seen the John Lewis advert and it is a work of art, a huge improvement on last year’s cartoon). Once that was out of the way (I still can’t get excited about Christmas, what with it being November and everything) we went DVD shopping. To add to my collection of adaptations of A Christmas Carol, I bought Ebenezer, a western version of the story with Jack Palance in the role of Scrooge. It’s a bit of an obscurity hence the cheap price in That’s Entertainment, but I have never shied away from a crap (in a brilliant way) film, in fact I once built a video series around it. I haven’t watched it yet as Mandi doesn’t fancy it, so it will be one of my cold afternoons on the sofa with a mug of Oxo films. I have swung back to the idea of doing a blog rather than a book of reviews of the adaptations of the story; it will of course carry the PayPal button so that donations can be made in appreciation. In order to bring some extra cash in for my filming projects next year I may think about carrying adverts on some of the blog pages, it doesn’t bring in a fortune but it all helps. Oddly enough, a version of A Christmas Carol is one of the things I hope to be doing next year.

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