December 7th (A.K.A. The Decemberists)

WARM THIS WINTER - GABRIELLA CILME

We are 7 days (one week!) into this alternative advent calendar and other than an illness based hiccup on the 5th we appear to be going strong!

Feel free to share this blog on your facebook wall or anything like that. If you're trying to think of a way to sell it to people say it is an Advent calendar where instead of opening a door to chocolate, you open a door into my head and you have to read it whether you like it or not!!!



To really help me feel festive for this blog I am listening to Christmas Songs as I write this. So you know what mind set I am in whilst writing I shall let you know when the song changes to something new.

I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS - GREG LAKE

This is a picture of Greg Lake. Or is it? You don't know what Greg Lake looks like. You could look it up... but you won't

I spent so long trying to find a picture of Greg Lake (if it is Greg Lake) that I am now on...

SAVIOUR'S DAY - CLIFF RICHARD
Now when it comes to Christmas songs there is only one question worth asking which is this;

When should we start to hear Christmas songs?

This is an argument that could last a long time with answers spanning from 'From boxing day' to 'NEVER!'

I find that people sit in a few categories. My favourite category being...

The Decemberists
You will recognise the Decemberists outside of December because they will say things like 'Oh I don't really care about Christmas'. They will be on the cynical side of life. They will tell you off if you start humming 'We wish you a merry Christmas' in April by accident.
If you tell them you've completed your Christmas shopping on November 19th they will genuinely groan with disappointment at your life choices.

WINTER WONDERLAND - DEAN MARTIN

The Decemberists curl up into a cocoon on the 30th of November and wake up on December 1st, eat their first chocolate from their advent calendar, read the first advent blog of one of their more vain friends and emerge from their house a Festive-Jumper-Wearing, Mariah-Carey-Singing, Christmas nut!

LAST CHRISTMAS - WHAM

During December they will turn any conversation onto Christmas, they will organise a secret santa at work, they will get drunk every day in December and burst into song at any given moment.

They will have all their christmas shopping done by December 7th! (Well done guys!)

In short a Decemberist on Novmeber 30th looks like this;

"I hope I still have that ready meal lasagna in the fridge."

and on December 1st they look like this;

"Let's start an office Christmas Choir and perform Band-Aid, I'll be Bono!"

WHITE CHRISTMAS - BING CROSBY
Many of you will be Decemberists, they are similar to a different group named Mid-Decemberists who have to wait for about the 15th for it all to kick in.

So to all the Decemberists out there... next year push yourself a little. Sing "It's beginning to look a lot like christmas" on November 29th!

I DARE YOU!

Maybe another time I will tell you about the June-Onward-Christmas-Creepers!

Happy December 7th!

Pro-tip - Buy you're crackers soon otherwise you will forget in the mad rush up to christmas and imagine a christmas without terrible jokes, paper hats and gifts you have lost before you've gone to bed on christmas day but find again on March 12th.

A WINTER'S TALE - DAVID ESSEX

Oh look it's David Essex... or is it? (It isn't, it's Greg Lake again! IT IS ALWAYS GREG LAKE!)

CHRISTMAS MUSIC REALLY HELPED I FEEL SO FESTIVE!!!

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