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Twelve Days of Christmas, Day 5 – Elin Gregory

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Today's visiting author is the awesomely talented Elin Gregory.

She is offering a $10 Gift Card as a giveaway. Leave a comment here to enter the giveaway, which will close 22nd December at 6pm, GMT.

Question 1.       What is your favourite Christmas movie? 


The Great Escape. Yeah, I know it’s not actually a Christmas movie but
it’s always on and I always make the effort to watch it. It’s fantastic
Question 2.       What is your best Christmas memory? 


Coming back from church on a crackling cold midnight with every star
blazing and the feeling that I was treading a path trodden for over a thousand
years. That’s a lot of good will.

Question 3.       What is the best present you’ve received? 


A few years back my family clubbed together to track down and buy and
extremely obscure book about the excavations at Olbia, a Greek colonial city in
what is now the Ukraine. I was astonished and touched that they had gone to so
much trouble.
Question 4. What
is the best present you’ve given? 


One
year my husband and I built an old fashioned rocking horse, complete with
beautiful glass eyes, mane and tail and proper harness and constructed a big
cardboard box to hide it. On Christmas Day the box was a HUGE success. The kids
played with it for months.
Question 5.       Santa Claus – real or fake? 


Are we speaking historically or
mythologically?
Question 6.      
What is your favourite
Christmas book? 


A Christmas Carol. All
the others stem from it whether by emulating it or by consciously rejecting it.
Also it’s good fun.

Question 7.  Do you like eggnog? 


What is eggnog? I see references to it all
the time around Christmas but I’ve never seen it. It doesn’t sound at all
appetising.
Question 8.       What do you eat at Christmas? 


Whatever
I can be bothered to cook. I don’t like the traditional Christmas dinner, but
we’re stuck with it on Christmas Day. However I do enjoy being creative with
the leftovers. Bubble and Squeak on boxing Day is an absolute must.
Question 9.       Be honest, when do you put up the Christmas tree? 


Himself won’t have the tree in the house
before Xmas Eve. A family tradition.
Question 10.      
When do you open your presents? 


Before lunch on Christmas Day. I go and
fetch my mother while himself puts the spuds in, give her a sherry and once
she’s settled we start.
 
Question 11. Do
you have snow at Christmas? 


No, never. A
bit on the ground occasionally, frost and sleet, but nothing like the Christmas
cards. I think the expectation might come from the swap from the Julian to the
Gregorian calendar in 1752 where we lost 11 days. There is often snow during
the first week of January so maybe the memory of snowy 18th century Christmases
 put the idea into the minds of the Victorian writers who invented
Christmas.

Question 12.      
What is the best – all-time –
Christmas song. Ever!  


Jona Lewie’s “Stop The Cavalry”. It never
fails to make me gulp as I contemplate all those people who serving overseas,
or having to work away from home, or who once had a happy home that they have
lost, will be spending this Christmas holiday alone.  
https://youtu.be/2HkJHApgKqw Alternatively I like Don’t Let the Bells
End by The Darkness because I dearly love a countertenor.
https://youtu.be/VQhuoY5h2kE

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. AiboPals says

    December 15, 2015 at 1:22 am

    I bet that rocking horse was amazing

    Reply
  2. Natalija says

    December 15, 2015 at 6:48 am

    Great interview, thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  3. Nikki Mc says

    December 15, 2015 at 9:05 am

    Gotta love the wonder of cardboard boxes. If only they stayed so easy to please as they grow up!

    Reply
  4. Kendra Patterson says

    December 15, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Cardboard boxes are always a hit with cats too. My sons cat will play with one for hours but ignores all the cat toys. 🙂

    Reply
  5. Helena says

    December 15, 2015 at 3:05 pm

    We share the same favourite Christmas song! and I love your Christmas memory. I've had a similar feeling returning from Midnight Mass. Nothing like a starry sky to instil a feeling of awe and timelessness.

    Reply
  6. ilona says

    December 15, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    I love Bubble & Squeak on Boxing Day, not forgetting the turkey and stuffing sandwiches for tea 😀

    Reply
  7. nancy says

    December 15, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    Eggnog is a creamy custardlike drink that is much better spiked with liquor, my preference is lots of rum. Homemade is better, out of a carton not so much.

    Reply
  8. Suzi Webster says

    December 15, 2015 at 9:38 pm

    Ooh, like the thought of the Gregorian calendar shifting our white Christmas to January

    Reply
  9. ShirleyAnn says

    December 15, 2015 at 10:16 pm

    Great answers I'd completely forgotten Jona Lewie’s “Stop The Cavalry” wonderful song.

    Reply
  10. Serena91291 says

    December 16, 2015 at 2:26 am

    My mum also uses a lot of leftovers for her Christmas dinners.

    Reply
  11. Paula says

    December 16, 2015 at 4:22 am

    Great interview, thank you for sharing and the rocking horse sounded amazing. 🙂

    Reply
  12. booklovez says

    December 16, 2015 at 5:49 am

    Never heard this particular Christmas song before. Thank you for the link =)
    humhumbum AT yahoo DOT com

    Reply
  13. Barbra says

    December 16, 2015 at 11:46 am

    The BOX. HaHaHa. How true. 🙂

    Reply
  14. Ree Dee says

    December 17, 2015 at 1:56 am

    I agree one year we used a big box to put their present in. (I can't ever remember what it was!) That box stayed around forever it was a fort, a house, a cave, a boat, etc., etc. Thank you for bringing back the memories!

    Reply
  15. Jess says

    December 17, 2015 at 2:18 am

    Ahhh the magic of cardboard boxes

    Reply
  16. Lillian Francis says

    December 17, 2015 at 6:44 am

    Cold meat, bubble and pickles! Yum.

    Reply
  17. Mary Coombes says

    December 17, 2015 at 9:13 pm

    That was wonderful thank you!

    Reply
  18. ramlr says

    December 18, 2015 at 11:26 pm

    I like th Q&A. It is fun to read all the answers by the different authors 🙂
    Stop the Cavalry, yep i know that song i hear it several times every year (around Christmas) and i do agree that it is a good song but my all time favorite Christmas song is Christmas Time by Bryan Adams 🙂

    ahpg(at)zoggo(dot)nl

    Reply
    • ramlr says

      December 18, 2015 at 11:27 pm

      my email address should be ahpg(at)ziggo(dot)nl

      Reply
  19. Teeberger says

    December 20, 2015 at 4:18 pm

    Love to read the answers to all of these questions.

    Reply
  20. Sula says

    December 22, 2015 at 12:49 am

    Seasonal Greetings and thank you for the giveaway 🙂 I am also not fond of the traditional Christmas dinner and find alternative dishes, which also gives a break for those visiting over the holidays.

    Reply

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