Christmas Countdown

The term countdown to Christmas is usually associated with a rocket taking off from Cape Canaveral – or rather, the explosion that means it is finally airborne and on its way into the outer atmosphere; noises worthy of any Christmas countdown mp3 download.

The lift-off feeling that accompanies the countdown to Christmas, however, may lead to an anticlimax when we suddenly look at the table strewn with torn paper hats and plates full of leftovers (as usual, there was too much food), and we mutter the fateful words “Is that All there Is to Christmas?”

But that Frank Kelly Christmas Countdown anti-climax feeling comes later. The Christmas countdown calendar is, if we let it be so, a time full of eager anticipation. The saucer-wide eyes of children as they gaze into the freshly-lit candles on the mantelpiece are witness to this innocent Christmas Countdown. They note that the logs in the fire, albeit artificial ones in an electric-powered appliance, make shapes that are like tigers and lions, angels and fairies… fantasy is an integral part of a Christmas Countdown. When they are old enough to be jaded, they are likely to recall these early countdown days of theirs as puerile. But again, that comes after.

To most people a Christmas countdown is the time when they stick a large notice on the side of their fridge with a magnet at each corner. It says things like… frank Kelly - Christmas countdown sequence: order turkey… buy turkey…. get turnkey delivered… cook turkey…. and this gives the idea that a myspace Christmas countdown is one large turkey! Or, if you had to download “Frank Kelly Christmas Countdown” ditty, a wild turkey! For this Christmas Countdown, Kelly imagines he actually receives all the gifts mentioned in the song. Other Christmas Countdown poems are more optimistic.

It is the time when you come to terms with the Christmas Countdown clock and clear out the cobwebs of the year from your heart and mind and soul, in a lighthearted, Christmas Countdown, frank Kelly style.

The Christmas countdown, if you are wise, will start on the day following Christmas, traditionally known as the feats of Stephen, which is mentioned in the carol about Good King Wenceslas. That is when you stock up on the non-perishable gifts and decorations for the year after, buy budgeting on the way to Christmas to have money to spend in the sales. It’s exactly the opposite of a vicious circle, really; no more shudders at the mere mention of ‘shopping days till Christmas’ countdown tactics.

There is another Carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas, which speaks of a different countdown to Christmas. But, unfortunately, this one too speaks of gifts and more gifts, rather as if that were the meaning of Christmas.

It would be a good idea for everyone to disregard all commercial and mercenary ideas that have to do with the words Christmas Countdown, and concentrate instead on falling snowflakes in any one of the free Christmas countdown screensavers on the internet, whistling off-key to one of the tracks in the Frank Kelly Christmas countdown mp3-downlad.