It's Christmas Eve, but Santa Claus has lost his cheer. All is going wrong, and he cancels Christmas this year! From the North Pole to a tropical paradise, will sun-kissed Santa end up thinking twice?

With his suit way too tight and his GPS out just before Christmas, Santa decides to take a tropical vacation but the reindeer and Mrs. Claus have other plans.

It's Christmas Eve and Santa feels completely fed up. He's eaten too many cookies and the reindeer are misbehaving. Then, when his GPS breaks, he decides he's had enough for one year! Can Mrs. Claus and the reindeer convince Santa to save Christmas? Find out in this hilarious festive story with a tropical twist.

Santa has HAD it! For generations, he's received letters from children all over the world telling him their greatest wishes for Christmas. They believed in the magic and he believed in them. But with every new tech gadget, gizmo and goody, Santa would receive fewer and fewer letters. Now, his worst fears have come true: not one, single letter from anyone all year long. Without any letters, Elves have nothing to build and reindeer have nothing to haul, so Santa decides it's time to give the world a much-needed holiday gift: he cancels Christmas. In the first Global Group text, Santa spells it all out...the importance of human connection, face-to-face interaction and never letting the child inside get lost in the trappings of adulthood. This is a modern, poignant, on-the-rednose tale for the whole family that reminds us all how important it is to be present, how technology can disconnect us, and how we can believe in the magic and hope of Christmas again without ever downloading an app.

Santa Claus is in trouble! Who will save Christmas? This A-to-Z guide to holiday films, television movies and series specials provides cast, credits, production information and commentary for 228 cinema Christmases that were almost ruined by villains, monsters, spirits, secularism, greed, misanthropy or elf error--but were saved by helpful animals, magic snowmen, selfless children or compassionate understanding. Reviews and references are included.

Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television. From devotional portrayals of the Nativity to Santa battling villains and monsters, this encyclopedia catalogs more than 1,800 international Christmas-themed cartoons and others with year-end themes of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the New Year. Explore beloved television specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, theatrical shorts such as Santa's Workshop, holiday episodes from animated television series like American Dad! and The Simpsons, feature films like The Nutcracker Prince and obscure productions such as The Insects' Christmas, along with numerous adaptations and parodies of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Twas the Night before Christmas.

This eclectic overview of horror cinema offers up a collection of horror films for practically any occasion and literally every day of the year. For example, the author recommends commemorating United Nations Day (October 24) with a screening of The Colossus of New York, whose startling climax takes place at the U.N. Building. Each day-by-day entry includes the movie title, production year, plot summary and critique, along with a brief explanation of how the film fits into the history of that particular day and interesting anecdotes on the film's production.

Des (don’t call her Destiny—she hates that name) is an elf with a problem. A jolly, red-suit wearing, gift-bearing, reindeer-loving problem. Turns out, someone has stolen Santa Claus’s magic. And it’s three days before Christmas. What’s an elf to do? Help him out, of course. That’s her specialty, after all. Except that creates a whole new problem: Des has to work closely with the Man in Red while keeping her presents under wraps, because there is definitely one thing she will not do. Ride in Santa’s sleigh tonight.

This bumper collection of Irish humour covers topics such as Absenteeism and Zoos and everything in between. It would be disappointing should such a large collection not include the best of famous Irish wits such as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, but the emphasis is very much on contemporary Irish humour from the likes of Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran, Ardal O'Hanlon and Dara O'Briain, to name just a few. Lunatic, iconoclastic and, as Spike Milligan might have put it, involving 'sideways thinking', this is Irish humour at its very best.

The following is a collection of articles which I wrote for the village monthly newspaper The Medstead Times over a twenty year period. 'Redcote' is the name of our house and 'up' is what goes on there. A series similar to this article is running in one of the national weekly newspapers, I believe - but there the similarity ends.