Christmas 2023

As mentioned the christmas entry is a duo-post because in reality what it is about is the same on both this blog and the other.

Christmas got made after the messy one of 2022 and this years events that impacted many of the rituals as you notice that missing face, the usual conversation around wrapping, card writing and the like.

So it was different but with some certainties which showed in presents.

Somethings are repeats from original childhood such as the Dandy annual or reprints from classic Beano and Dandy comic strips making perfect since in the world of this short trousered little boy.

Today's Beano is almost a magazine comic mash up with much in the modern child's world where for some of us including children comics that just humour still cut it so rather than getting this years Beano annual I had the Christmas Special, a good representation of the modern Beano.

We wrote about the cd version of enlarged classic Beatles 1962-1966 compilation but I had from Dad the record version which has the extra tracks on a third disc.

I had this compilation of Erasure that covers all their hits and is fairly up to date too. 

I bought the singles but never got an album until this was obtained from Mr Claus.

Classical music is something I like and as I had been getting some brand new records I was given a copy of this classic 1970 account on vinyl.

Books did feature too with this look at the life of Biddy Baxter who was the origiinal Blue Peter producer by Richard Marston.

I tend to forget things so this very vintage Winnie the Pooh A5 dairy will no doubt prove most useful to note visits and things to remember to do

I had some money and vouchers for the New Year but while it was difficult emotionally I was glad we had Christmas again.