At the end of November, I hit upon the idea of watching horror films with a festive theme in the run up to Christmas – a way to make the horror of Christmas much more bearable! I decided I’d watch twenty four films, to match the number of doors on an Advent Calendar, and produced a list of the ones I’d found initially.
Read MoreFor some time now my Christmas tradition is to avoid it as much as possible – and one aspect of that is to head off somewhere for a walk on December 25th. This benefits me because obviously it’s a good walk, but it also gets me away from, well, everything. As someone with a dislike for Christmas, the constant onslaught of it – TV, radio, online, everywhere – drives me nuts.
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A couple of weeks ago, I’d gone to bed fairly late and – either because I was feeling very tired, or because I was being lazy (or perhaps both) – I didn’t bother closing my bedroom curtains. In the very early hours I drifted out of the dreamworld, and noticed a very bright point of light in the sky.
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