Two Nice Children's Books
The Beatles 1968
In 1968 The Beatles issued their penultimate Christmas disc for the fans. It includes these twopoems by John Lennon
Once upon a time, there were two balloons called Jock and Yono.
They were strictly in love, bound to happpen in a mllion years.
They were together man.
Unfortunate timetable, they seemed to have previous experience which kept calling them one way or another.
You know how it is.
But they battled on against overwhelming oddities, including some of their beast friends.
Being in love, they clung together even more man.
But some of the poisonous monsters' outdated boss, lordy ape claws did stick slightly, and they occasionally had to resort to the dry cleaners.
Luckily, this did not kill them and they weren't banned from the Olympic Games.
They lived hopefully ever after and who could blame them.
Once upon a pool table there lived a short-haired butcher's boy by the way of Ostergrad.
It comes in scented cesspool or be careful.
Her father was in a long story cut short in the middle of this life sentence.
We're indebted to the colloquial office for its immediate disposal of her honorwitz, including, I might add, half a fell of her twotem.
On the other handbag, I mean to say l'amour nous sommes toujours realistic, strictly speaking.
For this film is about an hourglass houseboat.
The full meaning of Winchester Cathedral defies description.
Their loss was our Gainsborough nil.
The sound of a manservantile defectively lasting barred
Up in a love-dizzy gar-di-dell time.
How close can you Gettysburg and ever underly council ya originally a Birdbath feeling ...
Cut!
For a transcript of the wholedisc try here
https://genius.com/The-beatles-the-beatles-1968-christmas-record-lyrics
10 Things and more by Augustine about the Incarnation
“The Word of the Father, by whom all time was created, was made flesh and was born in time for us. He, without whose divine permission no day completes its course, wished to have one day [set aside] for His human birth. In the bosom of His Father, He existed before all the cycles of ages; born of an earthly Mother, He entered upon the course of the years on this day. The Maker of man became Man that He, Ruler of the stars, might be nourished at the breast;
- that He, the Bread, might be hungry;
- that He, the Fountain, might thirst; (that He, the Light, might sleep;)
- that He, the Way, might be wearied by the journey;
- that He, the Truth, might be accused by false witnesses;
- that He, the Judge of the living and the dead, might be brought to trial by a mortal judge; (that He, Justice, might be condemned by the unjust;)
- that He, the Teacher, might be scourged with whips; (that He, the Vine, might be crowned with thorns;)
- that He, the Foundation, might be suspended upon a cross;
- that Strength might be weakened;
- that He who makes well might be wounded;
- that Life might die.
To endure these and similar indignities for us, to free us, unworthy creatures, He who existed as the Son of God before all ages, without a beginning, deigned to become the Son of Man in these recent years. He did this although He who submitted to such great evils for our sake had done no evil, and although we, who were the recipients of so much good at His hands, had done nothing to merit these benefits. Begotten by the Father, He was not made by the Father; He was made Man in the Mother whom He Himself had made, so that He might exist here for a while, sprung from her who could never and nowhere have existed except through His power.”
– Augustine (354-430), For the Feast of the Nativity, Sermon 191
Jokes new to this blog but not new
- How much did Santa pay for his sleigh? Nothing – it was on the house
- How did the bauble know that she was addicted to Christmas? She’d been hooked on Christmas trees all her life.
- What do you call a blind reindeer? No-eye deer.
- What do you call a blind reindeer with no legs? Still no-eye deer.
- How did Scrooge win the football game? The Ghost of Christmas passed.
- I have this incredible ability to predict what’s inside a wrapped present. It’s a gift.
- The Christmas jumper my kids gave me last year kept picking up static electricity. I took it back and exchanged it for another one – free of charge.
- I got a universal remote control for Christmas. This changes everything.
- I bought my son a fridge for Christmas. I can’t wait to see his face light up when he opens it.
- The only Christmas present that I got this year was a deck of sticky playing cards. I find that very hard to deal with.
10 Christmas Traditions
1. Preaching six sermons or more on Christmas themes (various verses thus year)
2. Singing most of the Christmas hymns in our hymn book
3. Watching the film Elf starring Will Ferrell (tonight I hope)
4. Watching University Challenge Christmas Special on TV
5. Reading the novel Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (50 pages read so far)
6. Reading some Christmas detective fiction (A Dramatic Christmas this year)
7. Going through a book of devotions from December 1-24 or 25 (this year Joel Beeke and 31 readings)
8. Burning down an advent candle December 1-24 (a red one again this year, a bit too thin)
9. Going to see Kate Rusby and her band doing one of their Christmas concerts (really enjoyed that)
10. Listening to lots of Christmas music (I now have 671 items in my collection)
10 sorts of sweets mentioned by Dylan Thomas in A Child's Christmas in Wales
- Hardboileds
- toffee
- fudge
- and allsorts
- crunches
- cracknel
- humbugs
- glaciers
- marzipan
- and butterwelsh for the Welsh
Kate Rusby Christmas at the Cadogan Hall 2024
Great to be there once again to hear Kate Rusby sing the Christmas carols, etc. Two sessions at Cadogan Hall thus year. We caught the second. All the usual favourites - the brass boys, a session for the boys in the band (with the brass this time), lots of chat, dressing up at the end (honouring 40 years since Band Aid this time with jokes at the expense of Bananarama, The Police, Boy George, etc), three While Shepherds, etc. And home by 10.15 pm. We really enjoyed it. New album coming out in May.
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