Can these guys sing, or what?
Requested by Phoebe (it’s her birthday, after all), We Three Kings, sung by Hugh Jackman, David Hobson, and Peter Cousen, as part of an Australian TV Christmas special.
Tag: Christmas 2019
Held Over! Our Christmas Carol Contest
G’day after Christmas! Byron the Quokka here–and are you ready to close our Second Annual Christmas Carol Contest? Well, I’m not!
Crikey, look at all the carols that we haven’t posted yet! The carol with 44 views the day it was posted, Dec. 12 (I think), is still in the lead. I don’t think anyone’s going to beat that, but we can keep on playing. The winner gets an autographed copy of Bell Mountain No. 12, His Mercy Endureth Forever, when it’s published–which should be pretty soon.
Sorry, I’m not allowed to tell you who got those 44 views: don’t want to spoil the surprise. Meanwhile, no way we’re gonna run out of carols! You request ’em, I’ll post ’em.
And a Merry Christmas to us all, and as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every one!
Pavarotti: ‘Gesu Bambino’
No one has requested this so far–because there are more great Christmas hymns than we have people to request them. But I wouldn’t want to let the season go by without it, so here it is–Gesu Bambino, sung by Luciano Pavarotti backed up by the Wandsworth Boys School Choir and the National Philharmonic Orchestra.
By Request, ‘It’s Christmas Time All Over the World’
This is Erlene’s hymn request that I was too tired to post last night–It’s Christmas Time All Over the World, by Carroll Roberson. Sorry, but after supper, I just folded. So here it is today.
Yes, we’re back–in one piece. There were only a few kamikazes on the Parkway today, and they weren’t able to get us. We had a nice time and a nice dinner with my brother and sister, and now we’re home: we thank the Lord for that.
And to all of you who showed up here today, while we were out, thank you very much, and Merry Christmas!
A Feast for Guinea Pigs
We should be back from Toms River by now, but in case we’re not, here’s a rather charming video for you.
Think this guy has enough guinea pigs? But he does run a guinea pig sanctuary. And what can you say? Anybody who takes the trouble to make his guinea pigs a great big Christmas tree from kale, apples, peppers and carrots, just for them to gobble up as a festive dinner–well, that’s someone I’d like to meet.
For Christmas, 2019: ‘Gaudete’
About now we should be settling down to Christmas dinner with my brother and sister. While we do that, here’s another carol for you.
Gaudete, sung by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, with the London Cello Orchestra–“Gaudete, Christus est natus ex Maria.” In English: “Rejoice! Christ is born of Mary.”
Yes, I think we can rejoice in those glad tidings!
‘Prayer Request: For Christmas 2017’ (2017)
If all goes well with this post–and it hasn’t so far: not by a long shot!–you’ll be reading it as Patty and I zip down the Garden State Parkway for Christmas dinner at my sister’s house.
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We’ll probably be back before dark, because I don’t like to drive on the Parkway at night and the local traffic’s even worse–all the nimrods cruising around with their high-beams on, trying to blind you.
I hope some of you are able to visit here today, and enjoy a carol or two.
The carol which I am attempting to post above is Charles Wesley’s Light of the World, sung by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. It’s one of my favorite hymns, and I’m bumbling around with it today. Let’s just see if I can get it posted, shall we?
A Cozy Baby Sloth
We really must get going if we want to be in time for Christmas dinner; but my wife would never forgive me if I postponed putting up this picture of a baby sloth, and then couldn’t find it again. So here it is now. Patty’s crazy about baby sloths.
Did you know they were quite so little? No bigger than the average teddy bear.
Oooooh, fap! Getting late! Merry Christmas, and see you all later.
‘I’ve Won Another Award’ (2014)
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That was a nice surprise, five years ago, to get a Silver Medal in the Global E-Book Awards for The Cellar Beneath the Cellar, which is Book No. 2 of my Bell Mountain series.
Sorry, didn’t know what I ought to re-run today. For 15 minutes this morning, maybe a little more, our neighborhood was immersed in a noise such as would be made by the galaxy’s most powerful car horn with a dead body leaning on it. Couldn’t hear yourself think! It has only just stopped.
I love Kirk DouPonce’s cover for Cellar. You can’t tell me Ellayne isn’t real! How else could Kirk have painted her exact likeness?
Oh! Merry Christmas, everybody!
By Request, ‘Infant Holy, Infant Lowly’
Requested by Phoebe–sorry, couldn’t find one with both lyrics and a nice sound–Infant Holy, Infant Lowly is originally a Polish Christmas hymn. Sung here by the choir at King’s College, Cambridge.