Country singer Joe Nichols recorded the classic Roger Miller Christmas song "Old Toy Trains" and released it as a free download today. Nichols doesn't stray too far from the original recording and that's a good thing. It's a simple song and one that is perfectly suited to Nichols more traditional country voice. 

You can listen to "Old Toy Trains" below or you can download the song directly by following this link.

 

What happens to a Christmas tree when you combine public health and safety laws with the fear of personal injury lawsuits? A giant traffic cone covered in Astroturf?

When is a Christmas tree not a Christmas tree? When it is a giant cone covered in what appears to be green doormats.

Shoppers stared in bemusement at the mysterious object that landed in a shopping precinct in Poole, Dorset, this week. Some compared it to a giant traffic cone, a witch’s hat or a cheap special effect from an early episode of Doctor Who.

The 33ft structure turned out to be their Christmas tree, designed according to the principles of health and safety, circa 2009.

Thus it has no trunk so it won’t blow over, no branches to break off and land on someone’s head, no pine needles to poke a passer-by in the eye, no decorations for drunken teenagers to steal and no angel, presumably because it would need a dangerously long ladder to place it at the top.

From the UK Times Online.