A more traditional song by the Clancy Brothers
Now a proper folkie. @katerusby has done 3 or 4 or maybe 5 Christmas LPs and they’re all fab
Most years she tours the Christmas songs and the shows are fab too
(I really should have been a music critic) open.spotify.com/track/3P9…
Next John Lennon’s best solo song, with the possible exception of Working Class Hero, which was the B side of my copy
This is the one folk song from the best Christmas LP there is
The rest of the record has reggae, kids choirs, a Christmas Conga and all sorts
Absolutely nobody wants to know my Desert Island Discs of folkie Christmas songs but I’m going to ruddy well tell you anyway
First two are by non-folkies
I will, obviously, remind everyone nearer the time, but in case anyone is going to be logging out for the festive season……each mince pie you eat over Christmas guarantees you a lucky month in 2022.
It’s a scientific fact.
My word of the day today is ‘chirpy’.
#TodayILearned that the first Steptoe and Son, before it was Steptoe and Son, was an episode of Comedy Playhouse called The Offer
My dad was in the Falklands working for quite a while.
When he came back he was slightly obsessed with trees - he’d really missed them
#TodayILearned via @campbellclaret that the @WoodlandTrust runs a Tree of the Year poll
I can’t find a list of previous winners, but I feel that I should try and visit some
My word of the day today is ‘growl’.
More shocking news:
“I’ve spent 40 years telling people I never worked in a cocktail bar.”
My word of the day today is ‘mollusc’.
#TodayILearned that Oliver Postgates grandfather was the Labour MP George Lansbury.
More shocking news
RT @ChrisMasonBBC: Those aged 18-29 will be able to book a booster from Wednesday
I like a newspaper pernickety enough to do this:
“This article was amended on 5 December 2021. People have to be 78 or older to have voted in the 1964 election, not 75 or older as stated in an earlier version, because the voting age was 21 at the time”
This is my daughter’s Christmas track
If you could stream it, on repeat, from now until at least Boxing Day, that would be grand
FF, and, indeed, S
#CheLee
Heard a motor racing commentator wonder whether one of the racers had anything left in the tank
I don’t know much about Formula One but that seems a bit like a pre-requisite