Festive Favourites!

[CharliesAngles]

Trying to take my mind off the horrendous weather outside.
Tell me your

1. Favourite Christmas film
2. Favourite Christmas song
3. Favourite Christmas carol (tune, not Vorderman 😅)
4. Favourite Christmas food
5. Favourite Christmas tradition

1. Gremlins/Home Alone
2. When A Child Is Born or A Winter's Tale. I also like A Spaceman Came Travelling
3. I like most of them I think
4. All of it! My favourite part of Christmas
5. Don't really have any but we always go away just after Christmas for a couple of nights

1. Home Alone
2. Wham! Last Christmas (love the cheese)
3. Silent Night, especially in its original language, German.
4. Pigs in blankets
5. Decorating the tree with the music on, drinks and everyone chipping in. Some of our decorations are 20+ years old so it's nice to get them out and DCs chatter way about their memories.

Snap! on No.1 @Funkyslippers 😄

Though I haven't watched Gremlins in years, might have to look for it.

• Get Santa (it's the most underrated Christmas film ever)
• Fairytale in New York ofc
• Hark the Herald Angels
• Christmas 'tea' - ham, leftovers from lunch, cheeses, Christmas cake etc
• Midnight mass

Film: Santa Claus The Movie

Song: Fairytale or New York

Carol: In the bleak mid-winter

Food: all the cheese and pickles

Tradition: choosing the tree

Films: Violent Night & Scrooged

Song: I Believe In Father Christmas

Carol : Oh Little Town of Bethlehem

Food : Roast potatoes

Tradition : Decorating the tree

Film: Black Christmas (the original 1970s one) or Muppets Christmas Carol

Song: River by Joni Mitchell, orJust Like Christmas by Low

Carol: Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Food: Christmas dinner itself. We're veggie so no turkey but I always do a madeira gravy and we have fancy stuffing, bread sauce and all the sides

Tradition: putting the tree up whilst watching Nightmare Before Christmas and drinking Baileys

Film : Gremlins.
Song : Feliz Navidad.
Carol: Little Donkey, Good King Wenceslas.
Food: All of it.

Tradition: Quite a new one, as in formed in adulthood from 21 onwards when I moved abroad - watching Miss France with all the complex interegional politics that makes Eurovision look balanced and amicable.

1. Favourite Christmas film - White Christmas
2. Favourite Christmas song - Santa Baby, must be Eartha Kitt though, and Fairytales of New York
3. Favourite Christmas carol Hark the Herald and God rest you merry Gentleman
4. Favourite Christmas food - Mince pies and Stollen
5. Favourite Christmas tradition - Advent wreath with the 4 candles, lit on the 4 Advent Sundays before Christmas Day.

1. Serendipity
2. Solstice Bells (Jethro Tull)
3. The Sussex Carol
4. The Hairy Bikers ham recipe
5. It's my birthday on Christmas Day, so getting extra presents!

Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (also A Christmas Carol with Edith Evans)

Christmas song Do you hear what I hear

Christmas carol Gaudete (also like Il est né le divin enfant)

Christmas food Stollen

Christmas tradition Midnight Mass

Die Hard
None
None
Chocolate orange
Putting together a new Lego set with the husband.

National lampoons Christmas vacation/die hard
(it IS a Christmas movie 😂)
Let it snow/fairytale new york
Little Donkey/Silent night
Stollen, sherry trifle

Forgot tradition - which is the day itself, when all the stress has gone and watching my children and dog open presents 🎁

It's a Wonderful Life.
Christmas Wrapping.
O Holy Night.
Cheese and more cheese.
'The Lighting of the Fire' we are lucky enough to have an open fire and after putting up the tree and decorating on 1st December the fire is lit for the first time since last winter. A large glass of Baileys may or may not be included.

DCs have just come home from their grandparents with jars of homemade mincemeat and they've helped in-laws decorate their tree 🎄
That's another set of traditions for them 😍

Favourite Christmas film - Home Alone / Elf / National Lampoons / Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Favourite Christmas song - love all the ones everyone seems to hate in here (Slade, The Pogues, John Lennon etc). Have a real soft spot for the Ed Sheeran and Elton John song. And Yes to Feliz Navidad.
Favourite Christmas carol (tune, not Vorderman 😅) - Ding Song Merrily on High or Oh Come All Ye Faithful. Have to also add the original German Silent Night too. Adore this!!
Favourite Christmas food - Christmas dinner but I love all of it
Favourite Christmas tradition - a beautiful large real Christmas tree. I always had a fake tree growing up, which we loved doing but we were never allowed to get a real one (my folks spent a lot - even back then - on a fake one so it was used every year!). Now I always opt for a massive real tree. We have an 8ft one this year.