Christmas day edition 2021

On the ball or not this has been hastily put together as we are able to do a bit more than last and so we will have a few visitors today.

Christmas here is very much a repeat of how things were cos I haven't changed, I remain pretty much like a child any so a staple is annuals connected to comics so we have this years Beano Annual which may of caught up with the Spotty as Scotty renaming in the Bash Street Kids following Fatty becoming Freddie or possibly not but will have the two new classmates in.

We don't have a Dandy no more outside of the Summer Special but we do have an all new annual to look forward to.

Recently there has been themed compilations of classic cartoon strips from the Dandy and Beano from the past and this years looks at stories featuring characters doing art and drawing within the comic.

 Although I am familiar with the aria's from it I hadn't a copy of the full Madama Butterfly opera by the Italian composer Puccini and in the christmas stocking is a new acclaimed recording.

 Spinning at 33 1/3rd, I had the limited edition Dusty Springfield Atlantic singles set from 1968 thru 1971 on ruby red vinyl that uses the original mono singles mixes.

I also had some money I can take with me once we are clearer how the start of next year is likely to be.

The Christmas pause edition

The past is always in present here from posts about today's adventures inspired from then to posts about the past as experienced by me, the worlds just are co-joined.

Around this time of year things get busy, Mummy has to be helped with the zillion odd things that just must be done as we complete the ritual in all its detail we loved as children called Christmas.

From carolling, to buying presents and sending cards there was a magic in it that made the effort seem so worthwhile.

There are things you can make too!

In what was a year not like any other we had experienced beyond last year but thankfully one we could do more it remains for me to wish you all a Happy Christmas and all the best for Twenty Twenty-Two 

Going backwards for Christmas

This weekend may not seem up to much so I'm getting this done earlier than usual as it is blowing a gale outside as I type this.

That if you did not recognize it is the front cover from Princess Tina in an 1971 edition, a comic from the 1970's drawn by the Spanish comic artist Purita Campos who died in 2019 aged 82.

What you may not know is she was a prolific contributor to girls comics in the UK throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Her most popular strip was Patty's World which began in Princess Tina in 1971. She also illustrated many covers for that comic and others.

To me such series were very much the whole nature of girlhood specifically as it applied to school life writ large.

That was taken in these conditions too, this years "Christmas" tree to which majority opinion is somewhat under impressed by paid and put up by the Council.

The cottages  in the background date to the late Victorian era built for workers at the local mill since demolished for housing and yes the ground they are on is lower than the road thanks to subsidence.

Things for Christmas are arriving here as I get on with writing a few cards with torch at hand lest the power go off today.

Until next week, bye.

Preparing edition

 As we start the great countdown nom'ing through the Advent calendar I am planning for the next two editions having just checked the calendar over ready to deal with the family Christmas activity plus allowing time to get back to B:2 after getting my Covid Booster coz  fear without that not only would I be at risk of becoming seriously I'll (I'm pretty vulnerable and had a few near misses btw) but if we all don't we may have more restrictions back which I'm sure you will remember from last time was no fun at all.

Last week was at least here in the Midlands a rather white affair with pretty low temperatures on a few days and we had snow which is great for tossing snowballs (do mind passing cars though).

I did manage to trudge through it with some new trainers with great soles for grip as the men who've been keeping an out for me during lockdown noticed as they know the wobbly lower paws make getting around in Winter difficult.

I've been replacing the odd thing or two  after checking and trying somethings on that haven't wear much since that first Tv Covid press conference in March 2020,

Things will paws here on the Twentieth and on the other blog the Friday before with Tumblr and FA following suit I think.