A Slice of my Christmas Life

I don't know if anyone here has ever heard of "Log, the Christmas Special", but in my family, this is the first year we've ever watched this particular Christmas TV tradition. I use the term "watch" loosely..."Log" is a 4 hour long recording of a log fire. Oh, and there's some carols in the background.

So, Christmas morning, my family discovered this. And we also discovered that there are no less than 3 different versions of this. There's "Log,tCS", there's "The Yule Log" and there's "Bruning Log". They are all unique: some have carols, some not. And as Anna puts it, one is a raging fire, another is a sedate, quiet smolder. The third is a happy medium - Anna's favourite by far.

I understand that in apartments with no fireplace, when opening gifts Christmas morning, this Virtual Fireplace is a nice background to have.

What doesn't make sense is that my family a) opens gifts Christmas Eve (it's a European thing) and b) has a real wood fireplace that we used all Christmas weekend. Despite this, our TV played hour upon hour of "Log", with mom and Anna coming in every few minutes to check if anything new had happened. It's a log! Apparently, occaisionally the top log would slip down, or a hand would come in to the screen to add a new log, or use a poker to move around the existing logs. They were adament that they not miss these exciting 'scenes'. In fact, my sister recorded "Burning Log" (the not-too-raging, not-too-sedate fire) to watch again at her leisure.