Many of the locations of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' can still be seen today. Scrooge's counting house is thought to be in Newman's Court, in the City of London. "The ancient tower of a church" is described, whose "gruff old bell was always slyly peeping down at Scrooge out of a #gothic window." That church has been identified as St Michael's Cornhill, which looms over Newman's Court. In addition, Bob Cratchit heads home via nearby Cornhill, where he "went down a slide" on the ice "at the end of a line of boys, twenty times, in honour of it being Christmas Eve." Scrooge's "usual melancholy tavern" where he takes his "melancholy dinner" is thought to be Simpson's Tavern in nearby Ball Court, which has been trading since 1757. The door knocker which turns into the ghostly head of Jacob Marley was apparently inspired by one in Craven Street, near Charing Cross, where Dickens worked as a boy in a shoe-blacking factory. #Christmas #literature #history #folklore #Yule #books #London
December 1st! You know what that means. Show off your advent calendars! Or other non-denominational calendars full of stuff. I wanna see them!
Here is mine. Hubby filled it with #HazbinHotel cards. Also, one of my best friends made a personlized selection of 24 small surprise items. Can't wait 😊
(Hubby's getting #MtG cards. Kiddo is getting #Pokemon cards. We are a nerd family.)
This Christmas, I've finally bitten the bullet and done some serious contributing to @openstreetmap (and also joined the OSM Foundation while I was at it). Honestly, I think it's one of the great wonders of the #OpenSource internet, so I wrote a blog post about why I'm contributing (and you should too)
Thanks so much to everyone who has voted for their top 10 #holiday songs. We have well over 300 tracks voted for now, and we’re going to play the top 100 in a live 10 hour #Christmas party this Saturday, complete with plenty of fun Mastodon interaction using the #MushroomFM hashtag. I took a sneaky look at the chart as it currently stands, and mate, there’s everything to play for. Things are close enough right now that I wouldn’t guarantee that the song currently at the top of the charts will stay there. So, if you’ve not voted yet, it’s quick and #accessible. We’re honoured to have the chance each year to bring a bit of fun and #festive cheer into the world and look forward to many of our Mastodon friends joining us. Ready to vote? I hope so because you only have until 11:59 PM US Eastern time on Thursday. Then the chart closes and we get to work on putting the live show together. Head over to MushroomFm.com/countdown2023
This festive season give the gift of accessibility with an NV Access donation. Your support ensures we continue delivering life-changing technology to blind and visually impaired people globally. Donations can be made here, nvaccess.org/support-us/#donat…
🎅 Christmas surprise! 🎄 We're giving away secure email inboxes again! 🎁 The perfect opportunity to switch to secure and private email communication. Find out more in our blog! mailbox.org/en/post/christmas-… #christmas #dataprotection #gifts
Nějak začít musíš. A pak je z toho adventní věnec, jehož svíčky postupně rozzáří úsměv. A nebo věnec na dveřích našeho domku, který by rád přivítal lidi dobré vůle. #Advend #zivotvdovce #vanoceseblizi #christmas
Why am I finding all the good #Christmas #music late? I love this so much that I won't give any spoilers. Let's just say this should have been playing in a certain shop around this time of year. No, it's not "Never Gonna Give you up" or any other prank of that nature, but it is pretty funny and cool. youtube.com/watch?v=pDGl2albRH…
One of my favourite podcasts, Talk Description to Me, has returned from their hiatus for a Christmas special | ‘This year, to celebrate the season, we'd like to make this small Christmas offering: a reading of How The Grinch Stole Christmas by the one-and-only Dr. Seuss. But Christine is Christine, JJ is JJ, and this is Talk Description to Me, so in our reading of the classic Christmas tale, a few descriptions of the picture book illustrations have been woven into the text in playful Seussian rhyme!’ talkdescriptiontome.buzzsprout…
Christmas is a wonderful time to get in touch with old friends, to catch up over a warm mug of hot chocolate, to say "How have you been? I've really missed you!" Well, we've really missed you! This year, to celebrate the season, we'd like to make ...
I've broken my tradition of waiting until #school breaks up for #Christmas to listen to #Christmas music. now playing: Driving Home for Christmas - 2019 Remaster by Chris Rea from Dancing with Strangers (Deluxe Edition, 2019 Remaster) - Chris Rea I've failed myself 😭. open.spotify.com/track/27qAMKr…
Every year, #MushroomFM, a station run in the main by #blind volunteers, produces a top 100 #holiday #music countdown based on the votes of listeners. We also have a social media #Christmas party in conjunction with the live 10-hour broadcast. This year, for the first time, it’s happening on Mastodon.
This programming is produced by blind people, for the world. Everyone is welcome to vote for their holiday faves, listen in, and join in the social media fun if they want to. Here’s the blog post announcing the 2022 countdown. Looking forward to the votes of our regulars and, maybe, some new Mastodon friends as well. mushroomfm.com/node/3137
I’ve been hosting #jinglebooks on #bookstagram for a few years now. These days it’s mostly me #reading and sharing all my favorite #christmas #books. (I also try to find and read new releases for holidays too!) so as a mastodon exclusive (is that a thing???), I thought I’d share my curated collection of #newbooks I’m reading this year!!!
Are any of these on your TBR?? Let’s read them together! Look for reviews coming soon! Also share your book recs with me!
