Christmas Favourites Week 4

My Christmas Favourites Week 4:

My Favourite Christmas Decoration Of The Week:

This is my favourite decoration this week. My Nanny's Toy Solider that only has one arm now! I have lots of memories of this hanging on my Nanny's retro Christmas Tree with multicoloured lights with huge shades and decorations she made herself! Then after she passed away my Mam had it on our family tree for years. When I moved out I asked for it as it had so many memories for me. This year we didn't put up our 8ft Christmas tree as it would of took to much out of me, as I am one of those people who's Christmas tree has to be prefect and at nine months pregnant I just wasn't up for it! Instead we took a lend of one of my Mam's many tree's a five foot fibre optic tree but of course I still put the one armed toy solider on the tree!

My Favourite Christmas Tradition Of The Week:

  

I am not so sure if this is a Christmas tradition as it is so much as a birthday tradition for my birthday! My birthday is on Christmas Eve so every year we have a family night out for it, a meal and a few drinks. This year it was just me and Paul out for lunch at Jamie Oliver's restaurant and no drinks for me!! It was lovely and I really enjoyed it. Thanks to the hubby!

My Favourite Christmas Movie Of The Week:

My all time Christmas movie I just love It's A Wonderful Life! Everyone knows the story so I will not go into it but it gives a wonderful message for Christmas.

My Favourite Christmas TV Special Of The Week:

Can't beat Father Ted's Christmas special we watched this on Saturday night and I had a sneaky piece of chocolate cake!

My Favourite Christmas Song Of The Week:

This is my favourite Christmas song Fairytale of New York, maybe it's because we all know someone who is half way around the world at Christmas, or we think of some who has passed away and can't be with us at Christmas. Whatever it is I always sing along to this song and I love the video for it.

Hope you liked my favourites of the past four weeks. We wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas x

Five Things 5/52

Was another quiet weekend and yet we had a lovely one! Here are my five things!

Having a great time with my cousins. Dinner, wine, games, band hero, TV, and chocolate, had a lovely time with my family this weekend.

Friday night drinks it was lovely to chill out after a long week! Having a glass of wine and pizza on a Friday night bliss!!

Reading this wonderful book. I have always been fascinated by the Taylor/Burton love story how people can be so in love that they cant be without each other and yet cant be with each other either. The pictures and stories are amazing!

No Sunday Roast for us this Sunday we had hangover food of fish and chips! Its nice sometimes to have a break from the norm! I love Sunday roast but it was also nice to do no cooking on a Sunday for once and have a take out!

Watching my favourite episode of Father Ted...My Lovely Horse so funny I love it!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend! Doesn't it always go too quick? What are your favourite things this weekend?

25 Days of Christmas on Film & TV - Day 16

Day 16

Father Ted - A Christmassy Ted

Today we watched the Father Ted Christmas special being from Ireland and a certain age we love Father Ted and no matter how many times we watch it we always laugh. 

It's Christmas time on Craggy Island and Father Dougal especially is very excited for Christmas! Ted wishes for an uneventful, ordinary Christmas. The doorbell rings and Ted finds a baby on the doorstep however, the mother quickly removes the baby, having mistaken Ted's house for someone else's!

I love the scene when out Christmas shopping all the priests get lost in the underwear section of a huge supermarket! Or how Mrs Doyle keeps falling putting up the decorations! Ted learns he will be getting a award for getting all of the priests out of the underwear section unseen! Of course this goes to his head and he makes a long speech and mentions everyone that done him wrong over the years! 
They have a guess of an unknown priest who tells Ted they where friends back in the day but noone seems to remember him. He is actually trying to steal Ted's award, in the end he is caught and Ted decides to be a better person and priest! Meanwhile Mrs Doyle gets a Christmas present of a tea maker which she hates of course!
I really really love this special it always makes me smile...watch it ah go on, go on, go on, GO ON!  

My Top TV Shows At The Moment

I find that with the dark nights coming in and the winter settling in I often watch more TV than in the summer. Here are a few of my favourite shows to snuggling up on the sofa to watch with a cup of hot chocolate!

The Paradise

 I am enjoying this BBC One show. It is an adaptation of the novel Au Bonheur des Dames by Émile Zola. It tells the story of the fictional first Department Store of 1800's called The Paradise. A young country girl Denise (Joanna Vanderham) starts work as a ladies wear sales girl she is soon caught up in the ideas and charm of The Paradise and also with its owner the dark and mysterious Mr Moray. It also has a wonderful cast including Sarah Lancashire, Emun Elliott, and Olivia Hallinan. If you like Downton Abbey or Upstairs Downstairs you should give this a look.

Mike & Molly

I love this sitcom of a couple who met at an Over eaters Anonymous group and we see the up and downs of there relationship. The third series has started on Comedy Central UK and it takes off just as the couple get back from there honeymoon in Paris. The supporting cast are brilliant from Molly's wine drinking Mother Joyce, her pot smoking sister Victoria, Mike's smart mouth police partner Carl and Mike's sarcastic mother Peggy. It does often have the hubby and me laughing out loud!

The Great British Bake Off

I have never watched this show until this series. I think it was the different people that appealed to me this year when I decided to give it a go! Then of course the wonderful baking started and I just fell in love with this show! From crispbreads, petits fours, tortes and of course the show stoppers I was baking along, not very good but I was trying! The show is over now but we still have Mary and Paul's master classes on BBC Two to show us how its meant to be done. Oh My Giddy Aunt I can't wait!!

Father Ted

I am loving watching all the re-runs of this wonderfully funny Irish TV show! Father Ted Crilly and Craggy Island with it population of weird and funny characters! Father Jack..drink, drink drink! Father Dougal...real far away! Mrs Doyle..tea father?! Its such a funny show and it never get old no matter how much I watch it! More 4 show regular re-runs. My favourite episode is either the Christmas episode or Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse episode. Now go watch it go on, go on, go on, GO ON!!!

Once Upon A Time

This show is on Irish channel RTE One on Saturday or on Channel Five in the UK. Its an American ABC show it is a fantasy drama from the same people who brought us Lost. It takes place in the small town of Storybrooke the residents are actually characters from fairy tales that have been transported to the "real" world by an evil curse by a wicked witch. The only one who can break the curse is Emma who left the fairytale world before the curse was make thus making her the only person break the curse and restore everyone's memories. I am really enjoying this fun and light heart show.

The Big Big Theory

I am waiting for the next series for this to start on E4. This a really good funny show about four science geeks Leonard, Sheldon, Rajesh, Howard and there hot neighbour Penny. As the series have gone on we have met other characters such as Sheldon's girlfriend Amy, Howard's now wife Bernadette and have dealt with Penny and Leonard's on off relationship. I love this show and it always, always cheers me up after a bad day. Can't wait for series six to start showing on E4.

Downton Abbey

One of my favourite shows ever!! I have watched this from the very first episode way back in 2010! I love it! Set in the fictional Yorkshire estate of the amazing Downton Abbey it depicts the lives of the first class family the Crawleys and the servants who run Downton Abbey. From the lowly kitchen maid Daisy to master of the house Earl Robert Crawley. It has covered allot of events in its three series from the sinking of the Titanic, the first world war, Spanish flu and recently the civil unrest in Ireland. The first series for me was amazing the second was lacking but it back on form for this its third series. I can't wait for 9pm Sunday nights!

This is my list of favourite TV shows. What do you think of them and what are your favourite TV shows?