Happy New Year!

Winter is here, according to the Weather Channel. I hope you are all safe and warm and dry.

I don’t know about you, but I feel as if we’ve just had five Saturdays in a row. The week that wouldn’t end.

While in Texas we watched two movies. Banjo Man didn’t feel well enough to go out, so we cozied up in the condo after Christmas, ate cookies and watched tv.

We loved this movie. We had to pay for it, something I find annoying because I subscribe to so many channels, but it was worth it. Inspired by a true story in 2014, Pierce Brosnan plays a 93-year old WW2 veteran determined to go to the D-Day anniversary despite being confined to a nursing home. We all enjoyed it. One thing: the movie ends, “The End” is on the screen, it goes black and then? The story–the epilogue–continues and it is a great ending. If you watch it, don’t turn it off until it’s really over.

“The Man Who Invented Christmas” was so much fun. I don’t know much about Charles Dickens’ life–except to have walked by his house in London years ago–so his history with his father and his childhood were news to me.

The story of how he wrote “The Christmas Carol” was fascinating, with all sorts of characters in the mix.

Let me know if you’ve seen these movies and what you thought. And stay warm!