It's here: Christmas. If you don't celebrate, Happy Dim-Sum-at-the-Chinese-Restaurant Day to you. If you do, you're either looking forward to relatives, parties, gift exchanging, overeating, and watching sentimental commercials because this is, after all, a consumer holiday. . . or you're dreading same and hoping it will all be over soon.
Don't worry: it will pass. In the meantime, we've got seasonal photos, videos, and stories for you. There's music, and there are coloured lights. The Christmas crossword is back (thanks, Bluebottle). There are pets enjoying gifts and decorations. Paulh's trailer park is festive.
Wondering what to do with all of that leftover poultry? Wonder no more. Our chefs have assembled an international collage of recipes for chicken and turkey. Some of the chicken recipes are adaptable for turkey. Whether your tastes are high-class or low-class or curry-loving, you'll find something you can whip up to feed the relatives on a snowy day. And if you're too lazy to do more than microwave, Bluebottle's found a solution there, too.
You hate all this holiday stuff? We hear you. There's a whole wildlife section that we guarantee to be utterly devoid of tinsel, which is not good for the wild birdies, anyway. (Rossi the cat enjoys rolling in it, though.)
Awix has an appropriate cinema offering from Japan. Hear Godzilla roar.
No more 'festive' fiction after this, we promise. Instead and BUT! (as the Prof would say), starting 15 January, there will be more wild fantasies from the h2g2 novel writers. From the advance ad copy I'm getting, you're going to be in for a treat with these. They're even weirder than last year's. We'll tell you more about them next week.
Buried in snow, trying to beat the heat (we feel you, Willem!), or battling seagulls on the promenade, please have the most enjoyable of all possible weeks. And send me Stuff! This lunacy doesn't write itself.
Quote of the Week. Just saw a magpie fly by my office window carrying an entire granola bar. I like to think that somewhere nearby there's a person standing there with empty hands, looking up at the sky saying, 'Whaaaa?'
Janet Hill, Twitter
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