Festive Season Friday

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Well, as regular visitors to this blog know, this December, ever Friday will feature nostalgic Christmas entertainment. I was intended to stick only to festive movies, but Jeremy at Popped Culture reminded me of some great Christmas TV specials. I was never a big fan of the Peanuts special, but I absolutely lo-oo-oved the Garfield special. My family would watch it every year.

You can watch Part 1 and Part 2 on the YouTube site, but here's the big finale sequence... in which Garfield shows he has some heart, and Odie finally reveals his top secret Christmas present:



Snow White Christmas was another of my childhood festive faves. Basically the 60-minute animated film was a non-Disney sequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. After the Wicked Queen is defrosted she casts a spell over Snow White, her husband, the King, and their subjects, freezing them at a Christmas banquet. Only Snow White's daughter, also named Snow White, escapes. With the Wicked Queen in pursuit, Snow White is forced to flee, and seek refuge with the cousins of the seven dwarfs, the seven giants. The Wicked Queen resorts to all kinds of trickery before the final showdown between good and evil.


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Anyway, in terms of a non pop culture Christmas, here's a pic of our Christmas tree - we put it up last night.


And how many people can say their father 'really' is Santa? This photo was taken a few weeks back, before South African schools finished for the long Summer break. It has become an annual tradition for my father to play Santa for my mother's Grade 1 class, and apparently he is very good in the role.

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