Gave a couple of DVDs this Xmas, and have been slowly replacing some CDs I’ve lost over the years. (I want to listen to an album, not a feed!)

“Oh, oh: no more buttered scones for me, mater, I’m off to play the grand piano.”

youtu.be/S18Jrpz1wsw

This is my favorite—we watch it every year. He’s so wonderful, and the whole film is really true to the ghost story: atmospheric and spooky. Edward Woodward is absolutely frightening, and David Warner brings such depth and elegance to Cratchit. What a joyful (and earned) transformation at the end!

Let it be known: I did not fall from grace.

I leapt
to freedom.

~Ansel Elkins

For those too young, here it is: the turkey drop on WKRP in Cincinnati. youtu.be/zTCaibFcEHg