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Tag: Christmas Eve

  • Christmas Music

    Christmas Music

    It’s Christmas eve, and time for some music.

    Here is a selection of a few of my personal favorite Christmas songs.

    #1, The Pogues featuring Kristy MacColl – Fairytale of New York

    #2 The Kinks – Father Christmas

    #3 Greg Lake – I believe in Father Christmas

    #4 The Waitresses – Christmas Wrapping

    #5 Dropkick Murphys – The Season’s upon us

    #6 Seymour Swine and the Squealers – Blue Christmas

    #7 Run DMC – Christmas in Hollis

    I encourage you to post your favorites in the comments below.

    Merry Christmas MVAP!

  • The Shepard by Frederick Forsyth

    The Shepard by Frederick Forsyth

    In what has become a tradition with this editor, we give you the annual Christmas eve presentation of The Shepard by Alan Forsyth as read by CBC’s Alan Maitland. I sincerely hope you enjoy this story as much as I do.

    The Shepherd relates the story of a De Havilland Vampire pilot, going home on Christmas Eve 1957, whose aircraft suffers a complete electrical failure en route from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. Lost in fog and low on fuel, he is met and led to a disused RAF dispersal field by the pilot of a De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber of World War II vintage, who has apparently been sent up to guide him in.

    https://youtu.be/4P834fiIXEs