If popular means the dross that appears on popular radio channels, then Classical.

Classic Christmas Carols or Classic Christmas pop songs?

Just dropped in to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful new year.

Let's hope that 2022 brings us all good health and Happiness.

Stay safe and healthy, Y'all!

Now that my story is done, a few facts and figures.

3 Books:

The Nurses:

140,543 words

426 pages

42 Chapters.

Kindred Spirits, Distant Hearts:

115,792 words

351 pages

33 Chapters.

The Long Road Home:

132,442 words

401 pages

39 Chapters

Total:

388,777 words

1178 pages

114 Chapters

For a tale that began as a short story of around 5000 words, these figures come as somewhat of a shock. However, I have loved every minute of writing it and would like to thank the many thousands of people who read and enjoyed it. Especially those who left such wonderful comments.

Now it is done, I shall have to get it published. Who knows, that might take another six years! 😳

Oh, no, little lady. You cannot just sneak up like that and expect me not to notice! 😈🤣😎

Going back to the Christmas Music...

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No, but I will check them out. Sadly, few continental bands seem to get much notice over here.

This was the album that made them a firm favourite with me. Best enjoyed loud via headphones. 😎

Are you aware of the great dutch band of the seventies, Focus? Thijs van Leer was a brilliant Flautist and still is. Along with the fantastic guitarist, Jan Ackermann.

This is the ever-popular, 'House of the King'.

Ha! I can't do either! 🤣 I'll opt for skiing, though, purely for the views. 👌

Heroes of Telemark or Lawrence of Arabia?

I had five offers when first submitted but I just don't have the five-figure sums they were asking. 🙁

Can't honestly say I like either. So...

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation or Scrooged.

I have submitted The Nurses. Probably not happen though. 🙄

My favourite singer was, is and always will be, Karen Carpenter. Therefore, my family has to listen to A Christmas Portrait and An Old Fashioned Christmas every year without fail. Her version of Ave Maria is my favourite.

For Al.

Looking forward to the final season of the 'A Discovery of Witches' trilogy. Just been announced for January here. 😀

Real by preference but false for convenience.

Star or Angel atop the tree?

Some ten plus years ago, we were at a Christmas market in Nuremberg. In front of the Frauenkirche, a stage had been erected and some children from a local Kindergarten were giving a carol concert. Their little faces were so happy as they sang this:

Many years ago, when we were young and newly married, we were walking through a small arcade of shops in Ipswich, Suffolk. It was our first Christmas away from home (I was in the Air Force) and family. We were already quite emotional and this was playing as we walked through the beautifully decorated Tudor style arcade. Even now, forty-one years later, it still tears at my heartstrings.

Abba - Happy New Year.

Hard to say. Both can be good or bad depending on the source material.

Kurt Jurgens or Kurt Russell?

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I raised a ticket regarding the lack of email notifications some two months ago. Now there are no email notifications for anything. Not for story comments, new stories from those I follow, not even for direct messages. I feel that this is a very important problem and likely to be detrimental to the site.

I'm getting email notifications for messages sent to me so I was not aware of this. I'll ask about that too.

When my latest chapter was verified, Yas send the usual message but I didn't get the email notification, so I am assuming that no DMs are being notified. Story comments don't get email notifications either. They used to, but not anymore. I haven't had an email notification from SS since 15th Nov.