Still cold outside today and I still have a cold. Hopefully both will be gone by tomorrow. I’m keeping Kleenex, Halls and the makers of Thera-Flu in business.
I showed the outline I’ve been working on to my agent yesterday and he thought it was quite good and had a couple of suggestions for improvements and clarifications. It’s an awkward time of year to be working on something that involves contracts and a fast turn-around, but I think we’re on top of things. Still can’t say anything about the project for the time being, but it’s going to be keeping me busy for the nonce.
On vinyl record albums you could actually see the length of a song based on the width of the band. We had a Christmas record that had one very brief song—the band for it must have been only half a centimeter wide. It was a cheery little ditty that went like this:
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
Please to put a penny in the old man’s hat
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do
If you haven’t got a ha’penny, God bless you!
Before Dickens popularized the turkey, goose was the traditional British Christmas dinner food, by the way. I read somewhere that the British goose industry tanked after A Christmas Carol. Not sure if that’s true or not. So many things you read or believe these days aren’t.
Here’s a YouTube link to the trailer for the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special. Goody!
