I made a pair of PJ pants for my Superman fan sister, but didn't have enough Superman flannel to do both legs, so had to be inventive: The same sister also got the first season of The X Files, from 1993. She got hooked on the show, watching it on Netflix earlier this year. Much to her dismay, however, Netflix recently removed it from its lineup- in Canada, anyway- so I decided to start her collection for her. The show stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents who investigate cases which involve- or seem to- the paranormal. I gave another sister the first season of Lark Rise To Candleford, a BBC television series which ran from 2008 to 2011. It is based on a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels by Flora Thompson. The were originally published separately: Lark Rise in 1939, Over To Candleford in 1941, and Candleford Green in 1943. Then, in 1945, the three books were released as a single volume entitled Lark Rise To Candleford. The series takes place in late 19th century Oxfordshire and follows the lives of various people who live in the small village of Lark Rise and the nearby town of Candleford. The main protagonist is Laura Timmins, a teenage girl who moves from Lark Rise to Candleford for a job. I got my mum the complete series of Father Dowling Mysteries, a show which ran from 1989 to 1991 which she enjoyed quite a bit. It's loosely- very loosely- based on the series of novels by Ralph McInerny and stars Tom Bosley as Father Dowling, a mystery-solving Chicago priest and Tracy Nelson as Sister Stephanie, his streetwise nun sidekick. We exchange names to do stockings; I had one of my sisters' names and a couple of the things I tucked into the stocking were this: And this, because I thought it was kind of funny:
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