Christmas post

In recent years we've had a as it happens Christmas Day post but with events that wasn't going to happen not least as my spoons were on the low side so I needed more rest and less chromebook time.

One thing that's been a staple although much has happened from the over fifty years since I first started having it is the years  Beano Annual, today with newer characters such as Rubi matching our changed world but where they are with those we fondly recall still as old as they were back then.
 

 Providing in someways at least more of a connection with the past has been the Classic Beano and Dandy gift book that features themed reprints from the decades, often in better quality than those early colour editions on newsprint could offer.

We don't have weekly Dandy's anymore - the went at the end of 2012 - but we still get a Summer Special and an Annual and this is more contempary featuring the likes the Dandytown Scouts and other fresh strips reflecting modern britain and childhood.

 

Christmas albums by popular artists to be honest are more of an American thing and tend to be limited because of the specifically christmas nature of the material but this one does reveal much of the Beach Boys harmonies and in a year that saw the loss of Brian Wilson, in many ways the guru of the group, is a fitting tribute to what they contributed.

This lp has the original mono mix he envisioned and isn't otherwise readily available. 

Linking to that theme of past Christmas's Novembers two cd set "Wings", a highly comprehensive summary of Paul McCartney's bands work from 1971 through 1979 but not strictly speaking definitive has many hits singles I loved as a child and appropriately Mull Of Kintyre, the Xmas 1977 mega chart topping  single that is like The Snowman, a CatMas staple here
 

There were Jellybabies, chocolate and money to put towards other things I love in the New Year