Planet Mad

This weekend has been spent relaxing with El Boyo Wondero (that's Spanish, not Welsh, in case you were wondering) in a really rather lovely cottage. There was much eating, drinking, reading, log-fire-gazing, and falling-asleep-on-his-shoulder-at-4pm-and-hoping-that-he-won't-notice-the-dribble -when-I-wake-up-an-hour-later. In fact, 'twas lovely. I got home about lunchtime today, only to get a call requesting my presence in Stoke this evening to take Lesley to hospital. It seems that being 8 months pregnant and moving washing machines are two activities that should not be mixed, unless you want your baby to make an unexpected bid for freedom. Luckily the health experts carried out tests and proclaimed her officially not in labour despite experiencing contractions; what's more, they've given her a 90% chance of not dropping the sprog in the next week. Given that the blob is not due to appear for another month, if not more, a 10% chance of sprogging during Christmas week is causing a slight panic. On the other hand, it would brighten up my holidays. Hmmm...

The Christmas quiz has had you thinking. The taxonimy of certain tunes (LD, par example) has caused a little grief, but as I'm the fat-bottomed Guider I make up the rules. The answers (so that Wendy's brain can stop melting and she can start telling us the gossip, because we all know that something's going on and if she doesn't tell us we'll only make it up, which I guarantee will be far worse than the actual events occurring) are as follows:
1. Good King Wencelas
2. While shepherds watched
3. Away in a manger
4. Silent night
5. O little town of Bethlehem
6. O come all ye faithful
7. The holly and the ivy
8. I saw three ships
9. Hark the herald angels sing
10. The first nowell
11. The sussex carol
12. We three kings
13. In the bleak midwinter
14. The little drummer boy
15. O holy night
16. God rest ye merry gentlemen
17. It came upon a midnight clear
18. Joy to the world
19. Ding dong merrily on high
20. Little donkey
21. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
22. Winter wonderland
23. Frostie the snowman
24. I saw mummy kissing santa claus
25. Jingle bells
26. We wish you a merry Christmas
27. The twelve days of Christmas
28. O Christmas tree
29. Jingle bell rock
30. Have yourself a merry little Christmas
31. Sleigh Ride
32. White christmas
33. Blue Christmas
34. Mary's boy child
35. The halleluia chorus
36. The chistmas song (chestnuts roasting on an open fire)
37. Fairytale of New York
38. Torches
39. Two little boys
40. Ernie the fastest milkman in the west
41. Merry Christmas everyone
42. Merry Christmas everybody
43. Do they know it's christmas
44. Mistletoe and wine
45. Saviour's dady
46. Mr Blobby
47. Earth song
48. Goodbye
49. Can we fix it?
50. Bohemian rhapsody

Paj got absolutely all of the Christmas number 1s right, which shows that he is truly a god of rawk, or has spent too long consulting Schott's Miscellany. Either way, I was impressed. What's more, it's been two years since no. 25 sounded out from a wee church in Yarm and the evening was filled with nos. 18 and 44: happy wedding anniversary K and Paj!