Christmas edition 2016

Ever since starting this blog in the beginning of the year I had thought about doing a Christmas edition rather like as if we'd been around of each others houses and said "How  was Christmas with you?"

For me I was a bit late getting up as I had a migraine on Christmas Eve that was reluctant to  shift so I got dressed and came down for a light breakfast before messaging my Caregiver and opening my presents.

That's some of them stacked up so I wonder just what might possibly be inside of them?

The Beano was a staple comic of mine growing up even if today it's only available on download and we always had the Christmas Annual so getting that as a hardback with the stories of Gnasher, Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx and co really is a ritual I love.

 The Dandy suffered a bigger fate as it was discontinued outright but they do one off editions and a annual so I like to read new adventures of Korky the Kat and Desperate Dan of Cow Pie fame.

I love reading although with my learning disabilities I can't manage anything other than junior fiction and even then anything getting more above a reading age of 12 is hard going so mummy bought me this First edition of the new Jacqueline  Wilson novel set in Victorian England.

She also bought me the last Historical novel she wrote in a series looking very much at life in  Great Britain from a child in hospital in the early nineteen-fifties. I'll write a full review when I've read them .

I had this originally in Paperback but had been longing to find a copy with the original text in so my Brother gave me some money toward buying this used copy lacking its dust jacket as original hard backs are really quite rare and expensive.

I had some chocolate oranges, money and biscuits too from people that care about me.

The longest running program I watch

 Bits of the world have changed for instance this isn't being typed onto a stencil and put in a duplicator to send to you but goes out via the Internet, some school rituals and rules have changed a lot since I formally left school and the political map of the world keeps on altering.

For me though somethings do remain the same as they did from my earliest days and that does including watching the children's magazine show Blue Peter on CBBC which is the swanky new BBC channel for children's programming.

I've always watched it from as soon as I was able to take in television.

It's hardly suprising I still have a high number of the annuals issued and often found in your Christmas Present stocking up to the early 1990's.

They stopped doing the annuals in 2011 saying the sales had dropped off and so it would not be economic.

The one pictured is Blue Peter Book Four which was published in 1967 and for 1968 which socially and politically a momentious year

Apart from the stories and cartoons which included Paddington Bear, they did have written accounts with pictures of the highlights of the show which make them useful when it comes to bringing the past back to life.

I'm glad to have my originals even if like this one it had some spine repairs.