The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 4[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1972

Bobby looks very solemn with his Snoopy pajamas and Bicentennial kitsch drum, but sooner rather than later that drum’s gonna a receive a whack too hard and off to the trash it goes[…]

(Oh, a key bit of business. Whilst this is a list of Christmas films, they are not all about Christmas. Instead they are Christmassy films, films which remind us of Christmas and sometimes films which are always on at Christmas. The usual veto and no[…]

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THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
December 1972

L-R: Tommy, me, Santa Claus, Bobby.’
You may have already laughed at the family’s next (and, unsurprisingly, last) mall Santa photo.
Man, what happened to my beautiful blonde […]

That’s not the coolest opening sentence I’ve ever written. It’s a song that I loved, then hated with a passion and it now sits in limbo beyond like and dislike. What it does contain is all my childhood Christmas memories.
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The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 2[…]

(Obviously compiling this list a few weeks before December means that true Christmas spirit had not settled in amongst the electorate. However one must imagine this is exactly the same problem that the TV schedulers have when programming Supergirl on[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1971

My first Christmas. Perhaps someone thought it would be cute to let the six-month-old me wade in a sea of wrapped presents. At that age, I’m not sure what it would’ve accompl[…]

(I know the other list is not quite finished yet, but two weeks ago, this list was compiled in the usual manner in the pub and will probably fail to be counted down accurately as per usual leaving you tantalised. The order of films was supposed to in[…]