Today is Christmas Day, so my blog entry will
be brief. During the day, if you have
time to read, I’d recommend a short story.
It’s a perfect one for this day and it is a great story to read
aloud. I first heard it on CBC Radio’s The Vinyl Café, and I laughed so hard I
cried.
The short story is entitled “Dave Cooks the
Turkey”. I have it in a book entitled Home from The Vinyl Cafe: A Year of Stories by Stuart McLean, but
the story has also been published in a small book all by itself. It makes a great gift. Its size makes it ideal for mailing.
In the story, Dave agrees “to look after the
turkey” for Christmas Day dinner. On
Christmas Eve, he realizes that “meant buying
it as well as putting it in the oven.”
He contemplates moving “to some deserted Newfoundland outport and
[living] under an assumed name,” but decides to try and provide a turkey for
his family’s festive meal. The result is
a Homeresque struggle to beat all the odds and somehow get a turkey roasted in
time for Christmas dinner. The tale is
hilarious and only about 14 pages long so it’s perfect to be read to the family
before or after your dinner.
Of course, you might not have a copy of this
story at hand, so you can listen to this story read by Stuart McLean at https://soundcloud.com/cbc-radio-one/vinyl-cafe-dave-cooks-the. And for next year, make sure you
have purchased a copy of the story and make reading it a family Christmas
tradition.
For the first time, I made a book tree for my
library. Here’s a photo:
Merry Christmas to all my readers.
Joyeux Noël à tous mes lecteurs.
Wesołych Świąt dla wszystkich moich
czytelników.
Vrolijke Kerstmis aan al mijn lezers.
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