Christmas Recommendations: Pretty Please?!

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 ?

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.

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.