Christmas Links #8


"Merseyrail customers can make the most of travel around the Liverpool City Region this Christmas, as trains will be running every day over the festive period, except for Christmas Day."

"That is cauliflower."

Schoolgirl determined to help after mum's heartbreaking words at foodbank:
""Libbie Claus" has set up a massive Christmas operation this year to get gifts to children."

"If you ask me what movie I put on first thing in December to get in the holiday spirit I’ll tell you right away that it’s White Christmas. The 1954 musical is a classic for a host of reasons: the sparkling dialogue, the incredible dances with Vera Ellen, the comedy of Danny Kaye, the fantastic costumes by Edith Head, and the indelible voices of Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney."

"The beloved Christmas music created and performed by American Jews."

"M. R. James (1862-1936) is the writer of ghost stories, both the acceptable literary standard-bearer for them and actually pretty bloody radical. In his youth, James saw an inexplicably horrible face through a gap in a fence."

"In 1885, in his house on the south coast of England, high on a fever and cocaine, Robert Louis Stevenson—thus far best known for Treasure Island, and still some distance from a famous author—scrawled down the original Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in just three days, declaring it the best and most important thing he’d ever written."

"See how the leaders of the free world and their families have decked the halls."


"A couple who put a shark sculpture in their driveway say they will decorate it for Christmas after it became a local landmark."

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