Hints and tips:
...Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” recently reached number one in the US for the first time — it was released in 1958. In the UK, Mariah Carey, Wham!...
...I think my favourite new Christmas album this year is an EP by Sabrina Carpenter called Fruitcake, and I think that is really interesting. All of the songs are original and super creative....
...John Mortimer once named an attractive character Brenda Bodkin in order to have his hero yearn to “his quietus make with a bare Bodkin”....
...Photographs: Carole Anne Ferris/Alamy; Brenda Kean/Alamy; lamortella.org...
...Every electrician, plumber and carpenter in America could converge on the Gulf coast and it would still take months to fix everything....
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