Christmas Movies

It's December and this can only mean one thing. Time to break out the Christmas movies and those movies that tend to always be on around Christmas ;)

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate
The Santa Claus
Love Actually. The only film Kiera Knightly doesn't annoy me in.
Home Alone 1 & 2
The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas. Obsessed with this as a child!
Elf
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Family Stone
The Holiday
Edward Scissorhands
Bridget Jones' Diary
Miracle on 34th Street (1993)

Die Hard 1 & 2. It's just not Christmas without Bruce saving his wife!

Books and Gossip Girl

 Books

Recently I have just started back into my one of my favourite hobbies in the world. Reading.
At the moment I am reading 'The Wettest County in The World'.

 
It has been adapted into the film Lawless (starring Tom Hardy my love). I have already seen the film and I wanted to know more about the family so I got myself the book. I find prohibition to be a very interesting period of time. Maybe it's because I'm Irish and the thoughts of a ban on alcohol

TV: Downton Abbey Season 3 Episode 2

I must say I felt very let down by the beginning of this episode. I thought that the wedding was left on a cliffhanger from episode 1, where Matthew and Mary were left at the alter.  I spent the aftermath of the episode wondering would one of them change their mind. Flash forward to this week and no sign of the wedding.  No I dos, no confetti outside the church, no first dance, not even a glance at their honeymoon. Oh ITV give us SOMETHING!!

Matthew, Matthew, Matthew, can you please spare us all this 'I broke her heart nonsense'. You didn't and she clearly told you make Mary happy or be happy or something along those lines, on her deathbed. Ok look, I'll admit it, I don't want them to lose the big house because then there is no 'Abbey' in Downton Abbey.

Dame Maggie Smith had, in my opinion, the best line of the episode.