SLIGHTLY EARLY ACCESS: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Added 2023-12-20 19:28:39 +0000 UTCIt's Christmas, and to celebrate the season, QW take a festive walk through London. We visit a Christmas market, try the food and drink, see the Regent Street lights, Selfridges, and the Trafalgar Square tree - but something is missing. Why am I unable to get into the Christmas spirit?
Before Christmas Day there'll still be a blog post and some BYAMPOD bits still to come - plus some Monty's Mum outtakes. So, I won't be saying Merry Christmas just yet...
PLEASE NOTE: This is still processing as I type, so might not be in 4k if you watch it straight away!
Comments
If you want to see truly dreadful, overhyped lights you should visit Blackpool. The illuminations used to be iconic and I recall driving through them with my parents as a kid and being awestruck. OK, adulthood is bound to take the shine off, but having been in Blackpool at the end of last year, disappointed just doesn't say enough. I enjoyed the much maligned town generally, and think it gets an unfairly bad rap, but the lights were truly a pale shadow of what I remember. A lovely trip out for you next December, then? Thanks for the laughs and the Marillion stuff in 2023, as always. I hope you have a great Xmas & New Year, despite the grumpiness, and manage to avoid any further illness. Cheers.
Simon Hall
2023-12-22 17:12:25 +0000 UTCThanks, Richard. Merry Christmas.
Paul Rose (Mr Biffo)
2023-12-22 10:03:28 +0000 UTCI’ve always struggled with the social side of things, always being offered the dreaded ‘cheer up, it may never happen’, always getting the grinch cards, bah humbug hats, ridiculous Christmas jumpers everyone knows I’ll hate. Don’t really fit in the family and don’t have one of my own and nobody back north I really get on with or have much in common with barring some DNA. My work is at the other end of the country so don’t get to visit the parents at any other time of the year. Now I’m into my fifties xmas is a very different beast. It’s when I get to see how much older my parents have gotten, how much dads dementia has advanced, how much more mum is really struggling, but hasn’t been admitting to. It’ll be another gut-punch that’ll leave me reeling well into the new year. Having sleepless nights worrying about all the things I know I’m going to have to face. The tricky conversations we’ll need to have, what comes next. Felling the Merry & Joy much? No. Hope everybody else has a better time, enjoy it while you can.
Richard Oz
2023-12-21 22:02:03 +0000 UTC
