Category: Great Big Helper – Main Blog
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Santa! Burglar!
Chimneys! Once upon a Really Very Recently, the roofs of the world bristled with them, as if every city was nothing more than an overgrown, hedgehog made of bricks. And for Santa, each chimney was really a door from the sky. But things changed. First chimneys became, ahem narrower (or at least that’s what Santa…
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Has Santa ever shaved his beard off?
Yes. Just twice. It didn’t really suit him. In fact, he looked… terrible. You see – and Santa won’t forgive me for saying this – but his chin is absolutely enormous! I mean it’s so big, it looks like someone’s welded a planet onto the bottom of his face (possibly Mars, given both the redness…
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Do all the other reindeer actually do anything?
Well, I was going to say more about what happened at the reindeer races. But truth to tell, my old bear brain is still a bit befuddled by it. So I’ll leave it for a bit longer. I thought instead I’d say a bit more about what the reindeer in Yule Town do generally. You…
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What happened at the Annual Reindeer Races?
Well, I was much too tired to write this up yesterday, because, wow, what a day!! With things happening that not even the Ghost of Christmas Future saw coming. Though to be fair, that might just be because she’d put her robe on back-to-front again and couldn’t see through the back of her cowl. Most…
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Prepping the Annual Reindeer Races
Well here we are. January’s nearly over at last – it does seem to go on a bit! Santa says it sometimes feels like January is longer than the distance to the moon and back, and he should know, since he once flew there with a pair of binoculars to watch someone called Neil land…
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So what’s all this about then?
Well, after the Longest Night (or ‘Christmas Eve’ as you probably know it), all of Santa’s vast team have a good few weeks off to rest after the epic build-up. And let’s be honest, Santa also has to get some extra exercise in, because those mince pies, cookies, sherries, milk and the occasional bacon sarnie,…
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Why reindeer smell
So they can tell if food is fresh. No one wants to be near a reindeer with a dodgy tummy, which can get quite messy.
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Hello, I am a Polar Bear
This blog stuff is trickier than it looks. Especially when you’ve got great big white paws. Maybe I should get one of the elves to help?