The Oldie

Dreaming of a black Xmas

You’d better watch out, You’d better not cry, You’d better not pout, I’m telling you why: Santa Claus is coming to town.

Even those who can endure Michael Bublé murdering a beloved Christmas song appreciate that there’s no need to take it seriously.

Father Christmas might have decided you deserve to have only a measly lump of coal in your stocking, but we all know he’d be hard put to find one nowadays.

Even much of the free coal that retired miners

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