Portsmouth Point editors asked members of PGS staff to share their favourite Christmas songs, books and stories.
Mr Ryan
There are two films that I must watch every year at Christmas. The first is The Snowman, based on the Raymond Briggs book. It is beautifully animated, charming and I love the beautiful simplicity of what makes the young boy happy in this film. Watching it reminds me of Christmas growing up with my family as it became a tradition to watch it every year on Christmas Eve and, now I have a young family myself, I am looking forward to carrying this on.
The second film is Die Hard. It is a classic action film and in amongst what can sometimes be the too-sickly-sweet over dressing of Christmas this film is a breath of fresh air! Alan Rickman's portrayal of the archetypal action film villain is genius!
Happy Christmas everyone!
Mrs Clay
The song that means 'Christmas' to me is 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas', sung by Judy Garland, which always makes me cry - and will have even more significance this Christmas as I will be missing some of my family members, unable to see them in person.
Every year, I watch Love, Actually with my husband, while we wrap the presents - and enjoy a glass of red wine (having saved a good bottle for the occasion).
Mr Rees
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is my go-too film - I definitely see myself as Clark Griswold in my approach to Christmas parenting.
The song 'Fairy Tale of New York' brings back happy memories of celebrating Christmas, with a pint of Guinness, at university.
As for books, The Jolly Christmas Postman has attained the status of a classic in our household, brought down from the loft each year to be read and enjoyed by all members of the Rees family.
Mr Ansell
As a child, I watched The Wizard of Oz on TV every Christmas. It is such an uplifting and magical film and I love the fact that it has two endings, one sad, one happy, summing up the bittersweet nature of the Christmas season. I still try to watch it ever Christmas with my family.
My favourite Christmas book is The Snowman - wonderful illustration, full of feeling and emotion and yet at the same time so restrained and understated. My music of choice is: 'Stay Another Day' by East 17, which interestingly was not originally written as a Christmas song; however, the band's manager added the bells to the soundtrack - and the rest was history (and £100,000 to the band in royalties every Christmas season).
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