Christmas film adoration and rant!

[TheZeppo]

I love Christmas movies. They are filling my Saturdays currently (tragic).

BUT

I’m getting very hacked off with the ‘re-write history’ ones, as it inevitably seems to say that someone who chooses their career is missing out, and that a —mundane— family life is superior.

They never seem to show it the other way round. I realise that’s not Christmassy, but come on!

They have taught me a valuable lesson though. I’m still single, as I haven’t yet met Santa’s heir 😂

#Lighthearted

I've just watched 'The Christmas Visitor'. Proper blubbery tears here 😭😭

She's going to have a last minute change of mind, isn't she?! Stay in snowy, small town north America and take over her, recently retired, father's clinic (GP's practice)?! I mean, this is just about to happen NOW!!!!!!!

Yaaay! I was right!!!!

Finally watched Snowed Inn today - definitely one of the best I've seen. And it looked great, with the setting of ye olde worlde Inn, the snow, lights, vintage car, etc. The guy (Andrew something) was a bit too clean cut for me but I mean, I can see the appeal obviously (and I don't think I'd be turning him down if I was trapped in a snowy small town with him).

I also thought there weren't as many plot holes in this one as usual (a low threshold, I know). My main issue with it was when he put that raw cookie dough all over his face during the midnight baking session!! I hope that bit was binned and not used to make actual cookies!! Grim!

But it is realistic Heuschrecke.

I took a break from my high flying career in International Development for a charity specialising in Maternal and Infant Health in Africa, to look after my terminally ill mother.

When I returned to my career, it all seemed so lonely and empty. So I went back to my Northern hometown. When I got back, it was blanketed in snow for a month!

I took a part-time job working with blind people whilst spending time with my 100 year old grandma and sorting through my mum’s ribbon box and 1960s and 70s dress patterns.

Met my now DH due to train delays caused by excess snow on the line.

We moved to a tiny picturesque village together, where I spend my time baking and he earns six figures. This afternoon, a herd of reindeer appeared outside my house.

I thought everyone’s lives were like this? Seems normal to me.

Oh shit, that's where I've been going wrong all these years!

I’m really not joking:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3456358-A-herd-of-reindeer-have-appeared-outside-my-house

OK. But you ain't in Chelsea, are you?!

No, not Chelsea. Scottish Highlands

Haven’t lived in Chelsea since I split up with my ex-fiancé. I found out some of his investments involved child labour on timber plantations in Bangladesh. His justification was that they were distant cousins and that “it would teach them something valuable about life”.

So I broke it off and moved to a bedsit in Belsize Park, pausing only to arrange for some contacts at a Scottish University to contact Muhammad Yunnis, offer him an honorary degree and begin setting up a nursing school in Bangladesh by way of penance for ever having had carnal relation with such a bounder (we met whilst he was a techno DJ and living on a sink estate, his DJ outfit once opened for the Happy Monday’s, so I had no idea of his nefarious background). My ex had told me of the work of Yunnis, alas I had no route to him.

But luckily I struck up a conversation in a Glasgow kitchen, over tea, with one of Yunnis’s contacts, and he approved of my veganism and adherence to the guidance of the Buddha. Ahh, Ashok, he said. I think it convinced him of my moral fortitude.

A break dancing Tibetan monk at an AA rave in a church was peripherally involved, but that’s a Saturday night in Glasgow for you.

But here is much nicer than Chelsea.

Forgot to mention I was teaching baking (soda bread and cupcakes mostly) to young adults with learning disabilities in a social enterprise cafe as well as working with blind people when I met DH.

I watched a depressing one on one Saturday afternoon recently. A mum was ill and dying and they took in an elderly man for a couple of nights. The xmas eve came and the mum died - you saw her spirit leave her body. Dad woke in the morning and saw she had gone. Excited kids banging on the door. He tried to explain and they say they know she s ok as visitor told them she would be. Then the mum appears all alive and well 😂. So random. They then discover the visitor was a ghost. It’s very depressing and weird.

There certainly are some very weird Christmas films around, Pibplob.

Although I've been enjoying reading about Kitten's fantasy life on this thread!

It’s no fantasy! That’s my real life.

It’s no fantasy! That’s my real life.

Galileo!

Let's hope you don't get caught in a landslide Kitten (unless rescued by the handsome hero of course)

Just watched this video on FB where someone's dad explains his love of Christmas movies...

m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2634172766600826&id=121324491219012

TheMadGardener

That's brilliant. He nailed it beautifully

No heroic landslide rescues sadly HowDoI. But I do sometimes buy vegetables from Bismillah when we’re at our flat in Edinburgh. They sometimes have those pea aubergines that are so lovely in a Thai curry.

OK, watched two more Hallmark Christmas movies...

Christmas In The Air - he's a toymaker and widowed dad who is struggling to cope with work demands and making time for his kids. She's a professional organiser who he hires to sort out his life. 5/10 - OK but a bit meh, not much really happens, not much chemistry between the two leads. Forgettable.

Christmas Makeover (title changed from the US title Christmas Camp for some reason - US title makes much more sense). She works in advertising and has to plan a Christmas-themed campaign but she doesn't really get the magic of Christmas so her boss sends her to "Christmas Camp" at a picturesque old inn so that she can be forcibly converted into a Christmas-lover. The old guy who runs the inn and camp has a handsome architect son. This one I did enjoy - 8/10. However it was driving me mad that the older actor playing the owner of the inn looked and sounded sort of familiar. Could not think why, so by checking IMDB I discovered that in his younger days he was Jeff Colby in Dynasty !!!!!! (Showing my age there!)

(In my defence, I was only a teenager at school when I used to watch Dynasty !)

I must have watched about 3 of them this afternoon/evening - and I'm watching yet another one. Not sure what any of them were called - or even this one!!

Watched a terrible one today. A Snow White Christmas. But the one after A shoe a addicts Christmas was good. I love C5 for their festive films

Ooh, I recorded both of those while I was out delivering Christmas presents today!

Me too, Giraffe. I thought a Snow White Christmas was ludicrous - but funny in a terrible way! I liked the Shoe one though 👠