Category Archives: Party Nostalgia

Everything You Know About Christmas Is WRONG

Unfortunately much of what you know about Christmas is probably wrong, so let’s dispel a few of those traditional myths. If for no other reason than providing you with something to roll out in order to liven up the Christmas dinner conversation.

Through Tackiness And Out The Other Side

It’s just asking for trouble isn’t it? It was with much gloom I discovered that December 2011 is officially Tie Month (http://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/tie-month/ – honestly, I don’t make this stuff up). Why am I so gloomy? Simply because as a bloke I know that this gives everyone a golden opportunity to be ‘terribly witty’ and ‘awfully original’ by giving me ties for Christmas. Nothing says ‘Happy Christmas’ like a yard of polyester. It gets even worse when the tie happens to be a novelty tie.

A Doctor Who Party For Your Little Monsters

Doctor Who has seen a massive revival over the past few years, with a whole new generation of children running about with sink plungers and egg whisks ready to take over the universe. Once again the sofas have been pulled forward to allow for shorter members of the family to enjoy watching the TV series safe in the knowledge that no evil creature in the known universe has yet been able to fathom a way of getting through a Chesterton.

January 28th – Happy Birthday Ernie!

Today is the 42nd birthday of a very special television character. Ernie from Sesame Street is 42 today – so let’s hear it for the ageless fan of rubber duckies and playing the saxophone!

55 Today? Have A Happy Birthday, Without Advertisements

If it’s your 55th birthday today, then congratulations! Here are a couple of interesting things you may not have known about relating to 22nd of September, and one or two ideas of our own to help the celebrations get under way.

A Wild Party to Remember

When I was turning ten, a pretty big landmark, I decided that I wanted to have an out of control wild party that everyone in my class would never forget. There was a television show on at the time called Tizwaz and they would play games that normally involved getting into and creating a large [...]

A Traditional Kid’s Party

In today’s world of computers and wide screen televisions why not try a traditional kid’s party theme, a teddy bears picnic for example, complete with jelly and ice cream and party bags at the end for an old fashioned fun afternoon. Most kid’s have a cuddly toy of some sort to bring along to the [...]