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Me holding 12 train tickets and 1 receipt

Me: Hello ticket machine. Two return tickets from Peterborough to Manchester please.

Ticket machine: printing 1 of 12

Setting is a carnival. Indian man holds pink candyfloss whilst an Indian woman looks at him sceptically.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #999: Merry Christmas (Hindi)

Starts almost as a romance (woman meets man, takes him back to her place), turns into Hitchcockian thriller when she finds her husband's dead body... then it disappears, then reappears again?? Great film, will leave you guessing. 😵😵😵😵😵/5

Lacey Chabert looks forward, frowning in confusion. Subtitle reads, "That is so funny. That looks like a girl I went to high school with.'

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #49: Hot Frosty.

Romance didn't work for me, FMC was too maternal towards her supposed love interest, snowman was funny but too stupid to be a plausible. Best bit wwas Doug Judy and Boyle from Brooklyn 99, whole thing should have just been them. ☃️☃️☃️☃️💧/5

A young white woman with strawberry blonde hair and a camel trench coat holds up a pinecone Christmas tree ornament which she looks at with wonder.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #6: Twas the Text Before Christmas. Inspired by that Thanksgiving story, a wrong number text leads to a lonely woman spending Christmas with a strange family. This is a genuinely lovely film, the wholesome family dynamics work, the love story is well earned. 🌲🍷❄️☃️🥧/5

A black man in a festive red apron looks adoringly at a black woman holding a whisk as she laughs with joy.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #5: Meet Me Next Christmas.

girl has meet cute, then a FAKE meet cute. Her quest to track down fake cute leads to her falling in love with the friend she made along the way. There's also a Pentatonix sub-plot, reminiscent of the McFly subplot in Just My Luck. Fun.

A girl in a red hat and scarf with snow on her saying "She lives on in your heart."

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #4: The Snow Sister (Snøsøsteren).

Very sad. Looked like a kids film, but would have upset me way too much if I'd watched it as a child. A good film, but didn't make me feel very Christmassy.

❄️😭⛄😭👻/5

A child wrapped up warm for winter has his back to us as he says 'hi John's to another child. They are standing in a snowy street with Christmas trees all around.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #4: The Snow Sister. Incredibly sad Norwegian film about a bereaved child making a new friend, who has some secrets. Worth a watch but bear in mind it really is sad 😢 😢 😢 😭 😢/5

Is that a trope?? CMM is a carpenter, stands to reason he'd have his own clients. One of them was a taxi driver, one was a professional old man, can't remember the others.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #3: The Merry Gentlemen.

Girl is fired from show, goes to small town, parents' bar needs money so starts show with topless men, saves Christmas, falls in love, decides to not go back to New York. 2 cameos of other Netflix xmas films. Not amazing, not awful.

💰🕺💰🕺💰/5

I think they're freelance. So they can make time to rehearse.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #3: The Merry Gentlemen.

If #NetflixChristmas did the Full Monty. An out-of-time dancer (first scene) goes home and saves her parents’ bar by getting local men to strip. Why are they doing this? Don’t they have jobs? 🤷🏻‍♀️ . But it’s fun, and knowingly silly.

💃🏻👯‍♂️👷🏼‍♂️💸💪/5

Two women stand in a bar decorated for Christmas. One womanwith long brown hair in a cowboy hat and plaid shirt covers her mouth in surprised delight. Her sister, with blonde hair in two braids and also wearing a cowboy hat covers her heart with a similar facial expression.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #3: The Merry Gentleman. Fake Rockette loses her job, leaves NYC for her small hometown only to find her parents haven't paid the rent on their fake Rainbow Room. To save the day she organises local men to do fake Magic Mike. Fun to watch💃🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #2: Fall into Winter

Punny title wasted. Small town chocolate maker needs an investor. He arrives from NY, improves sales, is kind; they fall in love before Winterfest, an important January holiday. No jeopardy, no B plot, no real hair colours. Pleasant.

🍫🫘💵❄️👩🏼‍🍳/5

What about (Christmas) Cats?

A shot from the film of the two main characters looking at each other.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #2: Fall Into Winter.

Hard to concentrate on the plot due to the musak playing in every single scene that is too loud and often doesn't fit with with what's going on. One of the worst films we've watched in the 7 years we've been doing this.

🍫🎵👎👎🎵/5

Woman in foreground has a weird look on her face, as though cross but not sure what at. Suited man in background is smiling as though he doesn't know what's going on.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #2: 'Fall into Winter' sweet shop woman attempts enemies to lovers with man she has no chemistry with to a soundtrack of public domain musak. The kiss at the end (spoilers) is weirdly cut, b couple are cuter and more compelling

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #1:

Best. Christmas. Ever. A couple visit old friends whose round-robin suggests they have a perfect life. Turns out they do. Level of self-awareness varies wildly. Tonally all over the place. Polystyrene snowmen. Some good jokes. "Santa believes in us". 🎈💌🏠🚙⛄️/5.

Two of the characters playing chess. One is moving the white queen into a non-check position, while saying "check."

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #1: Best. Christmas. Ever!

Has chess scene where main character claims "check" but it's clearly not check, but the "checkmate" on the next move looks valid. Rest of film is quite boring. Best bit is Princess Switch playing on TV in background of one scene.

🌨️♟️🎅🛷🪦/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024

With apologies to all, every year @mscroggs.co.uk @aaclarke4.bsky.social and I post reviews on here of the latest #NetflixChristmas films 🎄🍿. This year is no exception; there is no escape. Here's the list, should you want to join in: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A well dressed black woman looks knowingly at a blonde woman. Behind them is a vase of red roses which match a garland of red berries hung underneath kitchen cabinets

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #1 Best. Christmas. Ever! Mostly enjoyable. I appreciated the two leads were women in STEM. Are those round robins still being sent? Is the real meaning of Christmas the friends we made along the way? 🌲✨🎄🧪🎈/5

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Sourdough boule cooling on a wire rack.

The same sourdough boule as in picture 1, on a wire rack but cut in half. The cross section shows some tiny bubbles with larger bubbles near the top.

My friend gave me a sourdough starter recently. This is the second boule I've made with it. Still have no idea what I'm doing but it's better than the first one! And I have some ideas for what to do differently next time.

Hello :)