Burl Ives narrates and sings "A Holly, Jolly Christmas".
At "Walter" everything was jolly summer cotton prints (ie, no need to linger).
To 25 Mar (www.centrepompidou.fr) Here's a jolly Christmas pressie from the folks at London's Kew Gardens – free entry.
And, more aggravating, she seemed to them all to be inexplicably jolly today, smiling, eagerly tucking into her food, humming.
To choose a song at random from the soul singer Bettye LaVette's astounding two-hour show at the Café Carlyle on Tuesday evening, how about that jolly 1971 Ringo Starr singalong, "It Don't Come Easy"?
Ros Asquith, author of Vanishing Trick It's got to be A Christmas Carol (really is worth rereading Dickens once a year) and the sublime Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet and Allan Alhberg.
PH Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003) 11pm, ITV A large serving of (quite jolly) Christmas schmaltz: Curtis ambitiously shuffles eight seasonal love stories and a cast list as long as Santa's delivery schedule.
The bright-and-breezy treatment of A Holly Jolly Christmas – Hilary Scott's lead vocal is complemented by lightly swinging strings and horns – is a pleasure; so is the sprightly, fiddle-filled Let It Snow! and the first two-thirds of The First Noel, before Scott's delicate interpretation is trampled by drippy violins.
And so what I actually want to write about, instead of jolly Christmas gifts – and I know I've only reached my subject 600 words in, but Adrian Gill is dead so life has got a lot less competitive for Sunday columnists – is a study presented at a conference in London last week which found that "the positive glow of parenthood lasts only 12 months".
Along the long strip of blue flag beach that connects Mablethorpe to Sutton-on-Sea, there are roughly 300 huts; they include some jolly 1950s huts on Queen's Park between the sea and the Thomas the Tank Engine miniature railway.
