December Already!!!!!!

I know Christmas decorations and lights have been up for weeks, Christmas Do's were organised months ago and the shops have been advertising for Christmas seemingly since Easter, but I can't believe it's December already.

I think I must have missed something though, as I don't remember seeing what televisual delights are planned for Christmas! Apart from the obvious Great Escape/Sound of Music/Zulu and the ever present James Bond film, what "specials" are we having.

It's not been the same since Del Boy and Co packed in, but I've not seen any thing announced in any of the papers, so please enlighten me.

When I was a kid and yes colour telly had been invented then, although my dad was too tight to get one, the only time we got the Radio Times and the TV times was for the Christmas period and we would mark the programmes we wanted to watch.....no Sky plus then, oh no, not even a video recorder not until Dad bought one from a bloke up the pub. He asked me to get it working, so I connected it up. It had a tape in it with "Learn the Clarinet, lesson 4" recorded on it. The plug had a label on it that was a bit of a giveaway. In Black Dymo tape it stated quite clearly "MUSIC ROOM"

I've never seen him move so fast!

Anyway...........we used to mark magazines with the programmes we wanted to watch, but you would only get one chance to get it right. The Generation Game Christmas Special, The Morecambe and Wise show and the "Blockbuster Christmas Film were dead certs! (And the Queens Speech, of course)but if you got it wrong, it was a stinker!

But what about this year? Haven't got a clue!

I usually think that Christmas is only approaching after watching the Sports Personality of the year show, in fact I've got them on video from 1984 to about 1999 and a few more recorded on DVD if you ever want to watch them again!

This year the first December date is obviously Saturday the 5th December when I take over the reigns as Captain!

Met up with Elaine Stubbs, the Lady Captain for 2010 and her husband to discuss a few things. Not long now! Starting to get the jitters, but also to feel excited. Got some ideas for next year, but you'll have to wait!

Bit like me trying to find out when Zulu is on this Christmas!