As we disappear into a frozen, snowy freezer of a weekend it is possible to think that Christmas came early and should have waited for the snow. Not the Christmas of the Bible of course (because we don't know when that came) but folk-festival Christmas with its See amid the winter's snow and snow had fallen snow on snow.
The Internet has done many things to change our lives. One of them is that Christmas never needs to stop, rather like those Christmasophiles who never take their Christmas decorations down. Now that a guy with an Internet connection and time on his hands can start an Internet 'radio' station there are plenty of places where you can have Christmas all day long, all year long.(link).
If the thought of Christmas all year is not quite focused enough there are alternatives. A favourite (sorry, favorite) of mine (in the sense of bizarre interest) is Amazing Grace 247. This, one might say, does what it says on the tin. Every minute of day and night it plays a version of the hymn Amazing Grace. So, unless there is a commercial playing right now go ahead to the link and listen and you'll hear John Newton's hymn until you never want to hear it again. With a small leap of the imagination you can almost hear Newton banging his head on a wall in despair.
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