Okayyyy, I’ve had three of these now so I guess I should stop putting it off (not because I don’t want to, I’m just not very imaginative!) and do it :P And because it will be Advent in half an hour and we put our tree up today, I’m making it CHRISTMAS THEMED. Oh yeah.


  1. The Snowman used to make me cry so much that my mum would bring me a towel instead of tissues…

  2. …but I didn’t cry at the bit everyone else cries at (when he melts at the end, yeah? That’s the ‘right’ bit to cry at?), I cried because he checks his parents are asleep before he leaves to go off with the Snowman and I was worried about how upset they’d be if they woke up and realised he wasn’t there. He really should’ve left a note. I was distraught for them, seriously.

  3. The Sussex Carol is my favourite carol, essentially because of this

  4. If it snows this Christmas I will make a HUGE thing of posting that THE SNOW HAS TURNED TO SLUSH and I’ll be ridiculously overexcited about it and I apologise in advance so please don’t be alarmed.

  5. I have a Christmas pudding hat:image

  6. One of my guilty pleasures is listening to Christmas music all year round (if I put this at number six right after the picture you won’t notice enough to judge me, will you?)

  7. I’ve wanted to go to the ballet at Christmas for as long as I can remember and I’ve never been so this year I’m treating myself and going to see The Nutcracker and I am SO EXCITED :D

  8. I spent every Saturday of my teenage years going to music school and every single year the most senior band played Sleigh Ride as the encore to the Christmas concert and I wanted to be in that band SO BADLY and eventually I made it :D And this is my final year there, 2005, with me on clarinet. Woooo!

  9. One of my favourite traditions is Claire’s Christmas Leftover Sandwich: bread, gravy, turkey, sausagemeat, stuffing, sausage, veg, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, more gravy, more bread. Perfect accompaniment to the Doctor Who special.

  10. When I was little I told my mum I wished it could be Christmas every day, and she said it couldn’t be because we’d run out of presents to give each other, and I replied ‘But I don’t care about that, I just like that people are nice to each other at Christmas.’ And that’s my thought for today. Be nice to each other :)