Christmas Day
Thursday, December 25th, 2008 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tourmalineWell, that was quite fun. Except for my uncle spreading his rotten germs (I'm not going to his house tomorrow, and neither will anyone else if they have any sense). I had some lovely presents including:
The presents I got for other people were well-received, too - the pawprint pyjamas, the DVDs, the books, the jewellery, the giant chocolate bars, the flavoured olive oil.
A fair bit of TV-watching was done, too. Saw the entire Doctor Who episode, first one since the revival I've seen all the way through. Definitely a good idea to bring Doctor Who back, miles better than it was when I was a kid. It now has wit, style, and appears to be treated with an appropriate level of seriousness. Looking back it was all rather geeky and serious over something that was evidently rather low-budget back in the 1970s & 1980s, but now it's matured into a proper TV programme. I thought the storyline in this ep was pretty cool, evidently it doesn't take itself too seriously ("sonic" screwdriver LOL!) and I liked the Victorian-inventor-academic theme. And David Tennat was so awesome, slightly mad hair and slightly mad eyes and very lovely to look at.
Wallace & Gromit was only half an hour, so I don't remember a great deal.... It was funny. I was a bit Shaun-the-Sheep deprived (Mollie, my late grandmother's friend who spends Christmas Day with us received a Shaun the Sheep for Christmas) but I liked the wierd machinery.
I decided not to tape The Royle Family, the extended cast that I like (the neighbours, Nana, Anthony) weren't in it, so I just watched it. It was uneven but the good bits were really funny, Tom Courtnay was very funny.
And Blackadder Rides Again...... SQUEEEEE!!!!!! Stephen receiving a present of his golden comedy breasts while filming in Africa (as per his tweets at the time). Hugh on the set of House, looking HOT (I wanted to rip off his T-shirt), and on billboards all over Hollywood. I was giggling all through the funny clips, you know when you know all the words but it's still utterly hilarious? It was like that, there was the bit where Robbie Coltrane is Dr Johnson and Blackadder is making up new words, and I was laughing all the way through. But of course they were all talking about how they all knew back then how amazing an actor Hugh was, and look at him now taking Hollywood by storm. They all talked about whether bringing it back would be a good idea, and I completely agree with Tim McInnerny, that the reason why it was so wonderful is tied up with the memories we have of it, and that it wouldn't be the same again so don't try to make it so.
Christmas food was of course yum, Christmas lunch is always fabulous - my mother's specialty is roasted root vegetables, and we always cook the stuffing in shallow dishes so you get yummy crunchy bits and soft sweet tender bits. I'd bought a bottle of champagne, too, and that was very nice indeed, I had two glasses with lunch. And we remembered everything for the evening buffet (cheese, coleslaw, potato salad, dips, breadsticks all present & correct alongside the usual cold meat and salad) so plenty of yummy leftovers for Boxing Day.
- Julie Walters' autobiography
- Band From TV CD/DVD
- Stephen Fry In America - Book and DVD
- Space photos book and calendar
- Space shuttle pen
- NASA Space Shuttle charm bracelet
- Die-cast model of Space Shuttle Discovery
- Perfume, scented soaps & bubblebath
- Jellybeans & chocolates
The presents I got for other people were well-received, too - the pawprint pyjamas, the DVDs, the books, the jewellery, the giant chocolate bars, the flavoured olive oil.
A fair bit of TV-watching was done, too. Saw the entire Doctor Who episode, first one since the revival I've seen all the way through. Definitely a good idea to bring Doctor Who back, miles better than it was when I was a kid. It now has wit, style, and appears to be treated with an appropriate level of seriousness. Looking back it was all rather geeky and serious over something that was evidently rather low-budget back in the 1970s & 1980s, but now it's matured into a proper TV programme. I thought the storyline in this ep was pretty cool, evidently it doesn't take itself too seriously ("sonic" screwdriver LOL!) and I liked the Victorian-inventor-academic theme. And David Tennat was so awesome, slightly mad hair and slightly mad eyes and very lovely to look at.
Wallace & Gromit was only half an hour, so I don't remember a great deal.... It was funny. I was a bit Shaun-the-Sheep deprived (Mollie, my late grandmother's friend who spends Christmas Day with us received a Shaun the Sheep for Christmas) but I liked the wierd machinery.
I decided not to tape The Royle Family, the extended cast that I like (the neighbours, Nana, Anthony) weren't in it, so I just watched it. It was uneven but the good bits were really funny, Tom Courtnay was very funny.
And Blackadder Rides Again...... SQUEEEEE!!!!!! Stephen receiving a present of his golden comedy breasts while filming in Africa (as per his tweets at the time). Hugh on the set of House, looking HOT (I wanted to rip off his T-shirt), and on billboards all over Hollywood. I was giggling all through the funny clips, you know when you know all the words but it's still utterly hilarious? It was like that, there was the bit where Robbie Coltrane is Dr Johnson and Blackadder is making up new words, and I was laughing all the way through. But of course they were all talking about how they all knew back then how amazing an actor Hugh was, and look at him now taking Hollywood by storm. They all talked about whether bringing it back would be a good idea, and I completely agree with Tim McInnerny, that the reason why it was so wonderful is tied up with the memories we have of it, and that it wouldn't be the same again so don't try to make it so.
Christmas food was of course yum, Christmas lunch is always fabulous - my mother's specialty is roasted root vegetables, and we always cook the stuffing in shallow dishes so you get yummy crunchy bits and soft sweet tender bits. I'd bought a bottle of champagne, too, and that was very nice indeed, I had two glasses with lunch. And we remembered everything for the evening buffet (cheese, coleslaw, potato salad, dips, breadsticks all present & correct alongside the usual cold meat and salad) so plenty of yummy leftovers for Boxing Day.
