The sea at Usan, yesterday.
So the run-up to Xmas in this house has been about one thing for the past few years. Is it the food preparation? No. Is it the Santa factor? No. Is it getting round and seeing friends and swapping presents? No... though all those things are happening... the main focus is, of course...
The Strictly Come Dancing final!!
Every year I think our girl will go off this TV show but every year she loves it more and more. There's just nothing we can do about it (it's watch it with her or lose her for 3 months) and anyway, this year it really was quite good (even with the continued plague of spoken clichés... "raising bars", "journeys", "pulling things out of bags", things "not getting any better than this" etc.). This weekend another year's worth of Strictly came to an end and 2012's champions are Olympic gymnast Louis Smith and pro dance Flavia Cacace (nice interview with Smith here). They even managed to do a slow and thoughtful show dance (and the show dances are usually all spins and flings) and I enjoyed it even though (and this is HUGE) they did it to a song by Take That (possibly my least favourite band ever!). So here it is:
And to make up for the Take That (though obviously on the clip above it is the Strictly band and singers' version) here is a Gillian Welch song I heard on BBC Radio Scotland the other day... lovely toon (and even better because it is NOT a Xmas song!!):
Happy holidays... if you're lucky enough to have them.
x
6 comments:
Thank you for the nice moment of quiet PLUS entertainment. :)
Merry Christmas to you and the ones you love.
Argh! No! Not S******* C*** D*******! :)
Hi Hope. Happy times to you and yours too.
Now, now, Dominic... deep breaths! I tried to avoid it this year... thought now Mum was gone we might drop it... but the girl loves it with a passion and she won't let it go! Sorry I gave in and watched it with her. There are much worse things in the world!
x
Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family! :-)
Greetings from London.
Hpe you are having a grand Christmas, Rachel. Let's have a fantastic 2013. Much love to you xxx
Happy Christmas Rachel and family :)
We're an X-factor family, and try as I might, I just can't get into Strictly... but while flicking through the channels I caught a v short clip of that gorgeous man without a top - I was very sad then that I hadn't been watching all along!
:)
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