A Fiendishly Festive Christmas Quiz- Which Christmas song did astronauts broadcast from space in 1965?
2. Mistletoe literally translates from Anglo Saxon as what on a stick? - According to the folklore of Austria, what horned figure punishes naughty children
at Christmas time? - In which modern-day country was Saint Nicholas born?
- In 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson described Christmas as the season to be jolly and...?
- What does Noel mean in Latin?
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READER’S DIGESTgoing to appropriate a traditional
craft from another culture, it should,
at least, match my wallpaper). I want
a tech solution (a smart pillow,
perhaps?) for automatically
transcribing my dreams. I have a lot
of great ideas when I’m asleep. Or at
least, I think I do. Then I wake up
and immediately forget them. If they
were captured for posterity, at least
I’d know that they were terrible.
(^5) A new favourite cereal. You know
my tastes, Santa. I’ve always loved
Cinnamon Toast Crunch, for my
sins. I’ve eaten it at least once per
week since the age of ten, cherishing
the reassuring childhood nostalgia
each sugary mouthful provides.
I stuck with it through the
DECEMBER 2021 • 17
Cinnamon Grahams years
(seriously, who at Nestlé thought
it was cool to name a kid’s cereal
"Graham"?), and have persisted,
under its current guise as Curiously
Cinnamon, but the packaging is just
killing me. "Seven Vits & Iron", it
claims. Nobody, but nobody, uses
the abbreviation "vits". Every day,
the packaging is a micro-aggression.
I desperately need a new favourite
cereal, Santa.
I hope that my list is not asking
too much. And best of luck with
our chimney. I promise we’ll get it
cleaned next year.
Merry Christmas.
Olly x