Christmas Recommendations: Pretty Please?!

Well Muppet's Christmas Carol is one of our fave Christmas films - we watch it most years even though we are now word perfect and know where we are going to laugh

We have a number of films we dig out, including Serendipity, Scrooged, Miracle on 34th Street (both versions), and even Holiday Inn and White Christmas sometimes although I'm not a big fan of Bing Crosby crooning. Perfect for after a big dinner snuggling down and having a drink or a doze - when you wake up you know exactly where you are in the film.

We often watch Love Actually.
And I always put Little Grey Rabbit's Christmas by the tree, where everyone except me ignores it. After all have gone to bed on Xmas Eve, I read it and remember with gratitude, my childhood christmases.

if I understood correctly. then you are looking for something related to Christmas - maybe our trodies, favorite movies, traditional food.
If you want to experiment, I will advise something without which the Christmas of a Russian person does not go (more precisely, we often celebrate the New Year). What is characteristic of this great day (I really can't miss it every year!) Is champagne. tangerines,
salad "Olivier" - a quick recipe - boiled sausage (like baby sausages), boiled eggs, boiled potatoes, boiled carrot, pickled cucumbers, green peas and mayonnaise.
Salad "herring under a fur coat" - it may be strange))) the salad is made in layers - slices of herring, onion slices on top, then boiled and grated potatoes, then boiled and grated carrots, boiled and grated eggs, boiled and grated beets, on top of small grater egg yolks. Each layer can be coated with mayonnaise and then insist in the refrigerator for at least a couple of hours.

And according to tradition, we have a bathhouse, jellied meat and aspic.
I think it sounds strange - but such traditions

we are also constantly reviewing the movie "Home Alone".

Replies! Yay! I'm doing the Kermit flail!

I intend to read Dickens’ Cricket on the Hearth and more of his Christmas stories as he wrote many for Household Words, not just A Christmas Carol.
Last year I watched Polar Express for the first time and absolutely loved it!
I bought this paperback as the cover enticed me and have read the first story by Arthur Conan Doyle. I remember my late husband greatly enjoying a biography about him.

Kseniya I've seen that layered salad on Come Dine with Me

I love The Polar Express. I don't normally like animations but this is lovely.
I've got my eye on a programme tonight called The Making of Fairytale of New York (Pogues and Kristy MacColl).

Little Women, it’s not especially Christmassy, but heartwarming.

The Christmas chronicles, Arthur Christmas, we will watch Roald and Beatrice, the Tail of the Curious Mouse on Christmas Eve, it’s new, but looks promising. Usually the GC’s are here, so it’s a read of the Night before Christmas on the Eve, prefaced by crispy duck and pancakes. When we’re all here we have 2 ducks, using the fat the next day, as it’s only DH and me I’ve bought a prepared half a duck.

Any trashy Christmas film on channel 5 most afternoons. Tins of Celebrations. Scrabble with double points for any word that can be associated with Christmas. Baileys Irish Cream, chocolate oranges. Pine cones on an open fire, smells like Christmas.
No books on Christmas Day unless you’re alone, has to be a sociable day.
Posting on the ‘ludicrous round robin’ thread, shamelessly promoting my thread .
Happy Christmas FannyC

Bound to be several good things to watch on tv over Christmas, the BBC’s Ghosts ( comedy) Muppets Christmas Carol, and any spooky Christmas drama.
Books to read, any old favourites plus whatever we receive as gifts.

The Great British Sewing Bee is having two Christmas specials.
Boxing Day 7.45pm
New Years Eve 8.00pm

Celebrities taking part (but then nothing is perfect)

My favourite book for this time of year is Nigel Slater - The Christmas Chronicles, it’s a lovely book with not just recipes but observations about nature, memories, treats etc., and it covers the whole midwinter period, not just Christmas itself. If you haven’t read it do, it’s a real treat.

Every year for about 25yrs...I've read Miss Reads 'Village Christmas '...just read it today...always makes me happy...a little tear also... old fashioned and warming ?

'It's a wonderful life,' 'The Bishop's wife' which I watch for Cary Grant. Always Carol's at King's on Christmas eve. I have A Christmas Carol on audible as well as a children's book called 'The Dark is Rising.' I also love a good ghost story at Christmas and bbc have a couple on bbc2 again on Christmas eve. All sorted.

Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher is a lovely read. Very Christmassy and leaves you with a warm glow. Bailey's, chocolates and nibbles while watching something like The Holiday, Love Actually and if the gc are here Home Alone 2 (even if they are not here!). Set in New York where we have been as a family. Little Women too if it's on. Christmas tree lights on, candles burning. My kind of Christmas!

Going back a bit, I shall be watching 'White Christmas'. It was my first outing to the pictures, as we called the cinema then.

As well as some of the above I am looking forward to Worzel Gummidge on Christmas eve and Call the Midwife.
I am rather disappointed with the selection on offer. I watched Shirley Valentine a month or two ago and I see it is being repeated umpteen times over the holiday period.

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Every year for about 25yrs...I've read Miss Reads 'Village Christmas '...just read it today...always makes me happy...a little tear also... old fashioned and warming ?

Nice to meet another 'Miss Read' fan. Have you read her book 'The Christmas Mouse'? Well worth it if you haven't read it yet.

The little children here have been enjoying the animation of Julia Donaldson's "Stick Man" on Amazon Prime TV.
They shriek excitedly, "It's Christmas Eve!" as it starts ?

It's got to be the film Elf starring Will Ferrell about a human being brought up by elves. So heartwarming and full of Christmas spirit. Always a few tears (from me and my DH).

I shall probably watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation if it’s on, (it usually is).

I would love to have a season of old films, not necessarily Christmas ones.

Now Voyager, Mildred Pierce, All That Heaven Allows, that type of thing.

"Babe, the Sheep Pig" has a message for all ages; it was our Christmas play last December with the am dram group to which I belong.
Or "The Railway Children" which provides family entertainment.