Festive Nostalgist Gifts

Santa's Workshop Mailroom. The little pile is requests for toys. The big pile is requests for a return to normalcy.

Times Change in Camden Town

Christmas trash, pre-technology - Christmas trash, current technology.

"Remember when it was 'The Dog and Duck'?"

The Woodstock Medical-Emergency Tent - 1994

"We'll see how it goes. It's Santa's first year with the genetically modified deer."

'Oh no! You're obviously smaller than me, Joy!' 'You're not fat, 'cause those pants were tight on me too Verl.'

If you give a mouse a french cookie

"You can still go over the river and through the woods, but it's cheaper to fly."

"It's a party Jim, but not as we know it!"

"It's just not the same."

"Living...in...the...1970s...must...have...been...DYN-O-MITE!"

"This year has been a disaster. But, my breaking point was when Apple TV+ hijacked 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,' away from network television."

"He wouldn't have rolled over and over in agony on the bombed-out cinder pitches we had to play on!"

'Mail order? You said all the toys were hand-made!'

'When we converted the pub into a house, we decided to keep some of the original features.'

'Rorschach multiple-choice test'

Christmas in Space

'Drone Santa.'

'I thought we'd go for a digital tree this year.'

This Christmas Let's Hang Together

"If only these kids had grown up with the same role models we had, then maybe they wouldn't look so damn ridiculous!"

New York, London, Paris, Munich, Everybody Talk About Pop Music

Son, when I went to school, I trudged for years knee-deep in student loans!

Snowglobe In Summer

'Aye lad, I remember when this was all snow.'

'It's all automated nowadays: Santa doesn't need to check the list twice anymore...'

Victorian mother and daughter.

Talking christmas tree

'Remember when Christmas came after hallowe'en?'

"When Santa went electric they either diversified or got furloughed."

'Your problem is that you're a Johnny Carson guy in a Jay Leno world.'

"Sorry, Michael, but no dodge balls past this point."

'I'm part of the losing things generation.'

"...and I'm saying we would've been here a lot quicker if we had used the SatNav rather than follow that stupid star."