“The fact that she’s dead would add to the caché.” Now that’s funny. Listening from the beautiful Bluegrass of Kentucky, USA. Good tale and good morning, Walker family and any fellow cognoscenti. 😃😂
Another Christmas ghost story! Thank you so much. Curled up under the covers with new kittens Jesse and James. I heartily wish you and yours a happy Christmas Tony.
Just discovered this exquisite podcast. I had no idea the English were so into Christmas ghost stories. I'm writing from the beach in Southern California and as I prepare for the holiday I'm burning through your episodes with relish. Kudos, Mr Walker.
@@wps8091 Chuckling right now. Of course I've heard of Dickens' A Christmas Carol! It scared the piss out of me as a child. My parents always preferred the 1951 Alistair Sims version and I rewatch it every Christmas. Shamefully, I'd never read the book but I've just listened to Tony Walker's reading of it. I was gob smacked. What rich and evocative writing. I could smell the meats roasting and the filthy London air. TW is a master. grew up with the 1951 Alistair Sims version and watch it every year. If I'm not mistaken, it came out in Britain under the title "Scrooge". Scared the piss out of me as a kid.
Great Story Perfect Narration When you start with your ramblings, You Are Fantastic !! First you had me smiling and then I was laughing. So, you get 5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It is funny how cribbage and bridge entered the narrative. My father was a cribbage player, my mother a bridge player! Never the two shall meet! I learned cribbage at 8 and played with my mothers parents (G&,G). My mom though she taught bridge would never teach me the game. Jealous of a possible rival? Lol but cribbage is great fun, a dying game of course, but there we have eh? Oh yes I played with my father! A great memory brought back by your assistance! Thanks, Christmas is ac great time to reminisce!
I played cribbage at work when I was an apprentice injection plastic mold maker. At the time, 1980s, I was the only woman in New England learning a precision metal working profession. The masters all played cribbage at lunch. They let me watch! Eventually they needed a 4th and asked me if I wanted to play! I played every lunch hour until my 4 year apprenticeship was finished and I became a journeyman and journeyed to different shops to play cribbage. Lol I still have my journeyman's card. That trade went overseas, like so many others, and I couldn't play cribbage now without the rules in front of me. I still have the board my second husband and I bought on our honeymoon. When it was too hot to sleep we'd sit up and play cribbage. I miss him most at Christmas. Being reminded of cribbage in this story made me cry, in a good way. Grief is the ultimate ambush predator even after 25 years... Merry Christmas and make many good memories. Don't hesitate to follow where your heart leads, in old age it's all that matters. ❤️
Hello Tony from Portland Oregon. I had to comment on how nothing works here anymore either! Portland actually used to have the slogan "The city that works". I'm not sure when they dropped it but yeah nothing works here anymore. I didn't appreciate enough at the time. I guess i thought it would last forever. Happy Christmas to you and yours!
Its a very cold evening and I'm almost done getting ready for Christmas... I'm finished for today and kicking back with the great Tony Walker! Merry Christmas and thank you very much 🎄🌨️✨🧑🎄🌠
I love your blathers! Today I made a nice (though rather greasy) split pea soup and a loaf of bread while listening. Tony I really do appreciate your work. I feel like as though I’m listening to a good friend. Merry Christmas!
I'm ashamed to admit that I was at first a poo-pooer of the blather. I have now come to appreciate it because of the more personal ad hoc nature of your post story offerings. At first I thought it was text book dry, but recently it's like enjoying the company of a chatty friend. Merry Christmas and cheers to blathering on!
Fun story for Boxing Day when it's suddenly too hot for us wimpy Limeys! I enjoy your rambles after the story, takes me on an extra journey - poor Jasper, but I'll bet he will eventually get used to it, so long as he always has his home to return to. Our old dog was similar - at first he hated going anywhere - terrified of the car, couldn't swim, petrified of the park; I can't imagine what his previous owner had done to the poor boy - But once we conquered his fear together and replaced it with FUN, then he'd sit by rear wheel arch when he wanted to go out and stare at you with haunted eyes and quivering ears until you submitted and took him somewhere. And about 2 or 3-miles from our destination his nose would poke through the opened window and much snorting and sampling of the air would ensue as he imagined in great detail all the excitement over the horizon. Bless him, we do miss him... Yes, as a gal from Tasmania, I'd say 3-dogs is a handful, and you'd need a Kennel License here for that number! Hope you all enjoyed a Merry Christmas! Thanks for such entertaining times...
We have your Christmas book & my hubby will read aloud from it at bed-time on christmas eve! We LOVE your blether at all stages, particularly about Ruby & Jasper - I'm long-term seriously ill and mainly bedbound so vicarious travels to Haworth make my day. THANK YOU and all power to the blethering. Wishing you a wonderful sparkly season. Oh and - we had three dogs for a while - in a tiiiiiiiny house with a tiiiiiny garden - they just go for walks and curl up very small after. Three dogs is lovely. 😊
I have been so busy I am about to wrap my Christmas presents. I'm waiting for Sheila to come back so she can distract the dogs who would otherwise want to 'help'
Enjoyed the story very much. Fell asleep during the afterwards. Came back to finish listening; I enjoy your after comments as much as the stories. Thank you, Tony!
I love your stories the most and then I love your narrations. And your prattling is excellent and the dogs and I adore it... Merry Christmas Tony Walker! 🎄 I say "prattling" affectionately not disrepectively. I prattle constantly.... 😀
I believe "homebody" was the word you wanted. I loved this story, the perfect atmosphere for this windy frigid night. I'd love to hear more Charlotte Riddell!
Please don’t stop your commentaries. I love them just as much as the stories. (Have to admit sometimes more). Not sure what that means. I’ve spent enough time in your part of the world to make me homesick for it and it helps to hear your voice as you recount the simple joys of travelling on a train with your little dogs. Thank you, Tony, and Happy New Year.
I ❤ MR James, but I completely understand how you feel. I enjoy both in different ways. Sometimes you want something a little bit closer to home or a little less cold. Just saying that where MR James is concerned, he’s not the most personable and tbf neither is Lovecraft. MR James often breaks suspension of disbelief by talking directly to the reader with phrases like “the reader will have to imagine...” in the parts where conversation is needed to complete a mundane scene, or an initial followed by a dash where names should be. He didn’t bother making it up. It’s obvious he didn’t enjoy writing that or researching for the appropriate context and so, he didn’t. They use people as vehicles for fear, rather than getting into the psychology of the people themselves and drawing fear from there or from the empathy that builds suspense and emotional reactions. Lovecraft was notoriously antisocial and it’s clear that MR James preferred his fantasies, history, architecture and ancient tomes to people. They were both happier with their noses in books - as are many other writers and their readers - it’s no insult but, no secret, either.
MR James has never been a favorite of mine. I also feel I'll be thrown to the proverbial wolves for saying so, but none of them scare me. Actually my favorite writers of scary, odd and outright disturbing stories has always been Shirley Jackson and Ruth Rendell. And I must now add Tony Walker and Jasper LeStrange. 💜
Changing my tyres, listening to your ramblings, smiling to myself, thinking I must make mince pies as my daughter will be with me, ( we are having a belated Christmas as I live in France) then laughed listening to the train episode with dogs and little old ladies with tea trolleys.. to the point my neighbours got inquisitive to see why changing a tyre was amusing... Trying to explain your scenario of dogs, trains and potcast. . Was all too much for me, car still up on Jacks, tyre beside it... Me..... in the house having a coffee, still smiling. I think i listen to the story so i get the rambles after !!!!
Hi Tony, I didn't want Christmas festivities to fly by without wishing you and yours the very very best that this holiday and new year has to offer... much health, happiness and financial success to you all. I hope your mom is better and feeling serene, calm and loved in this Christmas season. Thank you for all you've given me this past year and always. With kind regards. Ps: I love your post-story chats; please don't ever stop.
Thank you Mr Walker for all of your hard work in research and production over the years. I hope it pays off and brings you more of what you need in your life. Blessings of the season to all of this spook loving little community. (Summer Solatice here has been lovely here). May a little magic happen. 🌖✨✨✨
I've been very, very bad---and not given your channel the little comments it deserves. Christmas, and the time leading up to Christmas---for me---is like being squeezed through a flume, except I become jammed in the shoot and every day more and more pressure builds up inside this flume until it EXPLODES and everyone has a happy Christmas, but when I go to bed I'm so overwhelmed and trying to process so much energy that I usually end up weeping and the next day that you Brits call Boxing Day I lie, stunned, like a limp rag. But today, I feel more myself again. And, I really enjoyed this story and all three stages of blather. (Really, you're so good at blathering that you could do a channel of JUST blather and it would be entertaining) Your Classic Christmas Ghost Stories---the really long one with about 7 hours of stories on it helped me get through the pre-holiday stuff. They were great. They knocked me right out and I so needed the sleep. But, don't think I slept though all of them. Thanks, Tony, and I wish you a Happy New Year. I hope things get better in the UK (and I won't get started on the political B.S. from here in the States). Take care!
Love the word blether. We have a lovely tea shop called the Blethering Place. They not only make great tea. They make a stunning English breakfast. Fabulous if you've slept in a bit on a weekend and you just jump into your clothes an go. Heart attack on a plate but wonderful.
Oh, blether them, indeed! I am the 369th one to Like this posting in 10 hours, and I would say this is a good indicator that you are doing a good thing here... Also, I am proud to say that I am just as interested in your after-story commentary as I am in the stories you present to your audience. Taste is a riddle (rydell?) wrapped in an enigma when you think about what some people prefer (meatballs cooked with grape jelly as a sauce? pineapple slices on pizza?)... In any case, as the great Tommy Chong once said, "Keep on keeping on!" You're definitely creating something worthwhile here.
Keep Calm and Chatter On!! I love the after story sharing- I learn so much….and some of it is even about the author and story😂😂. I am obviously teasing😏😊. This small town Minnesotan will always be a fan. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
Brilliant! Perfect Christmas Ghost story ! And even better ramblings!! I'm going to check out the Detective Stories next..wishing you all a very Happy Christmas!!
Tony, you are such a sweetheart! Don't stop your "blethering"!! You are exactly right, those who don't care for it, can just push pause, or off, can't they? The rest of us treasure your friendly chats, thank you!
I enjoy your stories but must make a comment about bridge! As a card player bridge is my favourite game because you never stop learning. Most card games get boring because once you learn the rules, that’s it. Whereas bridge has so many “conventions and systems” to learn that it is continually interesting. However, you can also learn the basics and just play. It caters to everyone.
The "red bedroom" and the "tramp tramp!" Make this a proper story for Christmas night gathered around the fire.❤️Hurrah! It's the 11h day of Christmas!
Merry Christmas Tony. I hope you and your family had a wonderful time. A fantastic story and I love for your post narration blether. Bring on blether level 10!
Wonderful story and narration! I love this story! I will be listening to this one again. I cannot express how awesome this is! I know it is late, but Merry Christmas to all! I love the after story chats! They are amazing. Anyone not liking them can go play marbles in the road. I love the part of the chat calling out the "snowflakes". They would not know real PTSD if it stared them in the face.
Have you ever thought of doing little episodes where you "blither" about stories you don't necessarily feel like reading? I was listening to a different creator read Hugh Warpoles Field with five trees and really wanted one of your literary analysis at the end of it
Thank you for this wonderfully classic Christmas tale! Blather? There are people who don't like your "blather"? They probably kick small dogs and take candy from children (or vice versa), too! I think of your afterwards like the lectures of a favorite professor. It's fun to listen to and I sometimes learn a thing or two as well. I hope you had a peaceful Winter Solstice and please do have a Merry Christmas🎄 and a Happy New Year✨️.
Yeah, I really love the whole everything is good and the characters do all the right things and are likable and things are wrapped up really well and neatly.
I like the stage 3 blather stuff especially when it has to do with the pups, btw. ❤ Callie sounds like the absolute sweetest. I’m glad she was able to make some good friends. It makes my day when I come across a dog like that. Also, hopefully Jasper grows out of the being afraid of being on vehicles, as my Calypso, wasn’t fond of cars for the first year or so of her life, but she grew out of it.
Ruby was unwell at the end of her first season but is back to her usual crazy self . Callie is having g a phantom pregnancy at the moment so not a happy girl but Jasper is a gallumphing happy lad
Listening from Philadelphia! (Love the after story commentary)edit: i used to have a subscription to ellery queen mystery magazine. I love having short stories in physical form.
Games are not fun, but stressful to me. Rules offend when you have an ADHD brain. Love your ramblings. Thanks for these. It's great for me to rewind stories when my brain has wandered. 😊
Oh, what is this? Can anyone look this up? Could you post a link in a reply to this comment? I’m VERY INTERESTED! The UK offers REALLY USEFUL WEBSITES that explain SO MUCH MORE than here in the U.S. , where we are BOMBARDED by ADvert-the-I-ze- meant to “ask your doctor” for blah blah & side effects include worse symptoms & suicidal tendencies.
I felt so sorry for Charlotte's mum. Not only to lose your husband and have a child to raise, but to find out he has left no provision for you but everything to his first wife. What kind of a man does that?
That thought also crossed my mind, and I decided second wife must have money, or at least family with money, and maybe was not interested in living on and managing a large estate alone.
PS: If you don't have any money, go to your library and recommend they buy Tony's books. You can and they will. Come armed with the ISBN number and they will have no excuse not to.
Thanks! $um-thing 💰for the coming year, I share with you, as you share with us. Health, Wealth, & Happiness to you & yours this holiday season & for the new year! 💚Merry 🎄🎁 Christmas❣️
What is it with British people and Christmas ghost stories? It's not a tradition in the US. My mother would read the Pickwick Papers and A Christmas Carol to us at Christmastime and they both have ghost stories. My mother's family is English, by the way.
Regarding literature in magazines, Tony, back in my youth, the Redbook magazine was a general ladies magazine but always had several quality short stories and maybe even a novella or episode of a novel. When they stopped the stories I switched to Victoria for awhile. All magazines now are pathetic to me. Except Smithsonian or the like. If you create one, I'd subscribe.
“The fact that she’s dead would add to the caché.” Now that’s funny. Listening from the beautiful Bluegrass of Kentucky, USA. Good tale and good morning, Walker family and any fellow cognoscenti. 😃😂
Another Christmas ghost story! Thank you so much. Curled up under the covers with new kittens Jesse and James. I heartily wish you and yours a happy Christmas Tony.
Thank you sir😊❤perfect timing...ready for bed...👍
I thoroughly enjoy all your stories, but I particularly LOVE your post-story blether… never stop doing it please.
tyvm
Happy Christmas to Tony and all he’s followers with love from Ireland 💐👋☘️
Just discovered this exquisite podcast. I had no idea the English were so into Christmas ghost stories. I'm writing from the beach in Southern California and as I prepare for the holiday I'm burning through your episodes with relish. Kudos, Mr Walker.
We’re massively into Christmas including films and ghost stories.
@@wps8091 Chuckling right now. Of course I've heard of Dickens' A Christmas Carol! It scared the piss out of me as a child. My parents always preferred the 1951 Alistair Sims version and I rewatch it every Christmas. Shamefully, I'd never read the book but I've just listened to Tony Walker's reading of it. I was gob smacked. What rich and evocative writing. I could smell the meats roasting and the filthy London air. TW is a master.
grew up with the 1951 Alistair Sims version and watch it every year. If I'm not mistaken, it came out in Britain under the title "Scrooge". Scared the piss out of me as a kid.
@@wps8091 Merry/Happy Christmas 🎄
Same here in Alabama. Never knew...I'm enjoying so much!
I hope you have a wonderful holiday, dear Tony! ❤
thank you. that’s my christmas box . 📦 🙏 🎄
I love your after stories! They're as much fun as the stories you read. Have a marvelous holiday.❤
I think so too!
Me too!
LOVE the blether at every stage!
Great Story
Perfect Narration
When you start with your ramblings, You Are Fantastic !!
First you had me smiling and then I was laughing.
So, you get 5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Merry Christmas Tony always enjoy the blather.
It is funny how cribbage and bridge entered the narrative. My father was a cribbage player, my mother a bridge player! Never the two shall meet! I learned cribbage at 8 and played with my mothers parents (G&,G). My mom though she taught bridge would never teach me the game. Jealous of a possible rival? Lol but cribbage is great fun, a dying game of course, but there we have eh? Oh yes I played with my father! A great memory brought back by your assistance! Thanks, Christmas is ac great time to reminisce!
I played cribbage at work when I was an apprentice injection plastic mold maker. At the time, 1980s, I was the only woman in New England learning a precision metal working profession. The masters all played cribbage at lunch. They let me watch!
Eventually they needed a 4th and asked me if I wanted to play! I played every lunch hour until my 4 year apprenticeship was finished and I became a journeyman and journeyed to different shops to play cribbage. Lol I still have my journeyman's card.
That trade went overseas, like so many others, and I couldn't play cribbage now without the rules in front of me.
I still have the board my second husband and I bought on our honeymoon. When it was too hot to sleep we'd sit up and play cribbage. I miss him most at Christmas. Being reminded of cribbage in this story made me cry, in a good way. Grief is the ultimate ambush predator even after 25 years... Merry Christmas and make many good memories. Don't hesitate to follow where your heart leads, in old age it's all that matters. ❤️
Thank you for your Christmas generosity. God/Goddess bless us, everyone!🕊️
I absolutely love your blitherings!! You're talented as you are wonderful, dear Tony.
Delightful tale, also this time around. Love the accents, the vivid narration, " ramblings". Masterful as always, Tony. Thank you!
Hello Tony from Portland Oregon. I had to comment on how nothing works here anymore either! Portland actually used to have the slogan "The city that works". I'm not sure when they dropped it but yeah nothing works here anymore. I didn't appreciate enough at the time. I guess i thought it would last forever. Happy Christmas to you and yours!
Listened to these while cooking dinner of Christmas day. Perfect! Thank you ❤
Just in time for bed, merry Christmas and a very happy new year to you Tony 🙏👏
Its a very cold evening and I'm almost done getting ready for Christmas... I'm finished for today and kicking back with the great Tony Walker! Merry Christmas and thank you very much 🎄🌨️✨🧑🎄🌠
I love your blathers! Today I made a nice (though rather greasy) split pea soup and a loaf of bread while listening. Tony I really do appreciate your work. I feel like as though I’m listening to a good friend. Merry Christmas!
I thoroughly enjoyed your narration and the 5 levels of blather at the end.
Poor Jasper. My Maddie hates to travel, too. She’s asleep up against my leg in bed as I listen to the end of your talk. Dogs are the best. ♥️🐾
I’m gonna save this for Christmas!
I'm ashamed to admit that I was at first a poo-pooer of the blather. I have now come to appreciate it because of the more personal ad hoc nature of your post story offerings. At first I thought it was text book dry, but recently it's like enjoying the company of a chatty friend. Merry Christmas and cheers to blathering on!
you are a great speaker tony I hope you have a good Christmas and a happy New year!
Laughed out loud on part about Charlotte the ghost editor. Great story.
Fun story for Boxing Day when it's suddenly too hot for us wimpy Limeys! I enjoy your rambles after the story, takes me on an extra journey - poor Jasper, but I'll bet he will eventually get used to it, so long as he always has his home to return to. Our old dog was similar - at first he hated going anywhere - terrified of the car, couldn't swim, petrified of the park; I can't imagine what his previous owner had done to the poor boy - But once we conquered his fear together and replaced it with FUN, then he'd sit by rear wheel arch when he wanted to go out and stare at you with haunted eyes and quivering ears until you submitted and took him somewhere. And about 2 or 3-miles from our destination his nose would poke through the opened window and much snorting and sampling of the air would ensue as he imagined in great detail all the excitement over the horizon. Bless him, we do miss him... Yes, as a gal from Tasmania, I'd say 3-dogs is a handful, and you'd need a Kennel License here for that number! Hope you all enjoyed a Merry Christmas! Thanks for such entertaining times...
Thanks for the Christmas story and a good ramble!
We have your Christmas book & my hubby will read aloud from it at bed-time on christmas eve! We LOVE your blether at all stages, particularly about Ruby & Jasper - I'm long-term seriously ill and mainly bedbound so vicarious travels to Haworth make my day. THANK YOU and all power to the blethering. Wishing you a wonderful sparkly season. Oh and - we had three dogs for a while - in a tiiiiiiiny house with a tiiiiiny garden - they just go for walks and curl up very small after. Three dogs is lovely. 😊
I have been so busy I am about to wrap my Christmas presents. I'm waiting for Sheila to come back so she can distract the dogs who would otherwise want to 'help'
dogs are brilliant at wrapping presents!! secret ingredient to joy in every package = added dog hair!
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Enjoyed the story very much. Fell asleep during the afterwards. Came back to finish listening; I enjoy your after comments as much as the stories. Thank you, Tony!
Glad you liked it, Maggie.
Love your talks after.very interesting as I know nothing on most of the authors.cheers Tony.
I love your stories the most and then I love your narrations. And your prattling is excellent and the dogs and I adore it... Merry Christmas Tony Walker! 🎄 I say "prattling" affectionately not disrepectively. I prattle constantly.... 😀
I believe "homebody" was the word you wanted. I loved this story, the perfect atmosphere for this windy frigid night. I'd love to hear more Charlotte Riddell!
Please don’t stop your commentaries. I love them just as much as the stories. (Have to admit sometimes more). Not sure what that means. I’ve spent enough time in your part of the world to make me homesick for it and it helps to hear your voice as you recount the simple joys of travelling on a train with your little dogs. Thank you, Tony, and Happy New Year.
Great tale. Love to also hear your happenings in your actual world!
I'm so glad you consider us your friends!!! I'm extremely happy you're doing so well. Bravo. I'm one of your first listeners! Merry Christmas.
You know I'm going to be burnt at the stake for saying I prefer these stories than Montague James stories I like ghost stories about every day people
I ❤ MR James, but I completely understand how you feel. I enjoy both in different ways. Sometimes you want something a little bit closer to home or a little less cold. Just saying that where MR James is concerned, he’s not the most personable and tbf neither is Lovecraft.
MR James often breaks suspension of disbelief by talking directly to the reader with phrases like “the reader will have to imagine...” in the parts where conversation is needed to complete a mundane scene, or an initial followed by a dash where names should be. He didn’t bother making it up.
It’s obvious he didn’t enjoy writing that or researching for the appropriate context and so, he didn’t.
They use people as vehicles for fear, rather than getting into the psychology of the people themselves and drawing fear from there or from the empathy that builds suspense and emotional reactions.
Lovecraft was notoriously antisocial and it’s clear that MR James preferred his fantasies, history, architecture and ancient tomes to people. They were both happier with their noses in books - as are many other writers and their readers - it’s no insult but, no secret, either.
MR James has never been a favorite of mine. I also feel I'll be thrown to the proverbial wolves for saying so, but none of them scare me. Actually my favorite writers of scary, odd and outright disturbing stories has always been Shirley Jackson and Ruth Rendell. And I must now add Tony Walker and Jasper LeStrange. 💜
@@violetfemme411 Have you read "An Evenings Entertainment " ?
@@-ReaganAgreed, she’s awesome, but both very different and uniquely spooky. Cheers!
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Yes the last two punk rock.
Changing my tyres, listening to your ramblings, smiling to myself, thinking I must make mince pies as my daughter will be with me, ( we are having a belated Christmas as I live in France) then laughed listening to the train episode with dogs and little old ladies with tea trolleys.. to the point my neighbours got inquisitive to see why changing a tyre was amusing...
Trying to explain your scenario of dogs, trains and potcast. .
Was all too much for me, car still up on Jacks, tyre beside it...
Me..... in the house having a coffee, still smiling. I think i listen to the story so i get the rambles after !!!!
+@alison155 many like them
some don’t but who cares about those people
Another year of great stories & Christmas tale! And enjoy your stories of the stories and your tangents ramblings!
I’m glad you’re here
Looking forward to enjoying more blether in 2024! Best wishes for the New Year!
Thank you so much ❤❤❤
I really enjoyed this story and author!
I absolutely love your after talk Tony, never stop!!!!! Merry Christmas and thank you for your wonderful readings❤️🎄🍷🥂🍾
Same to you! I like your picture I’ve always wanted to mention that.
Another great year of great stories & your
Thank you.
Loved this plus the ramblings. Thank you on Christmas Eve from Cornwall UK...
Hope it's not as wet and windy as Cumbria. Happy Christmas
Hi Tony, I didn't want Christmas festivities to fly by without wishing you and yours the very very best that this holiday and new year has to offer... much health, happiness and financial success to you all. I hope your mom is better and feeling serene, calm and loved in this Christmas season. Thank you for all you've given me this past year and always. With kind regards.
Ps: I love your post-story chats; please don't ever stop.
Thanks for all the Christmas ghost stories. Love them!
Thank you Mr Walker for all of your hard work in research and production over the years. I hope it pays off and brings you more of what you need in your life.
Blessings of the season to all of this spook loving little community.
(Summer Solatice here has been lovely here). May a little magic happen.
🌖✨✨✨
The storytelling stuff is going from strength to strength, so thank you for your kind wishes and the power of intent that delivers.
I've been very, very bad---and not given your channel the little comments it deserves. Christmas, and the time leading up to Christmas---for me---is like being squeezed through a flume, except I become jammed in the shoot and every day more and more pressure builds up inside this flume until it EXPLODES and everyone has a happy Christmas, but when I go to bed I'm so overwhelmed and trying to process so much energy that I usually end up weeping and the next day that you Brits call Boxing Day I lie, stunned, like a limp rag. But today, I feel more myself again. And, I really enjoyed this story and all three stages of blather. (Really, you're so good at blathering that you could do a channel of JUST blather and it would be entertaining) Your Classic Christmas Ghost Stories---the really long one with about 7 hours of stories on it helped me get through the pre-holiday stuff. They were great. They knocked me right out and I so needed the sleep. But, don't think I slept though all of them. Thanks, Tony, and I wish you a Happy New Year. I hope things get better in the UK (and I won't get started on the political B.S. from here in the States). Take care!
Happy New Year !
Love the word blether. We have a lovely tea shop called the Blethering Place.
They not only make great tea. They make a stunning English breakfast.
Fabulous if you've slept in a bit on a weekend and you just jump into your clothes an go. Heart attack on a plate but wonderful.
Oh, blether them, indeed! I am the 369th one to Like this posting in 10 hours, and I would say this is a good indicator that you are doing a good thing here... Also, I am proud to say that I am just as interested in your after-story commentary as I am in the stories you present to your audience. Taste is a riddle (rydell?) wrapped in an enigma when you think about what some people prefer (meatballs cooked with grape jelly as a sauce? pineapple slices on pizza?)... In any case, as the great Tommy Chong once said, "Keep on keeping on!" You're definitely creating something worthwhile here.
Keep Calm and Chatter On!! I love the after story sharing- I learn so much….and some of it is even about the author and story😂😂. I am obviously teasing😏😊. This small town Minnesotan will always be a fan. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
Brilliant! Perfect Christmas Ghost story ! And even better ramblings!! I'm going to check out the Detective Stories next..wishing you all a very Happy Christmas!!
Hope you like the detectives too.
She was 73❤ 😂. Don’t worry we still love you 🎄💖🎊👑
ha ha. i thought that was wrong
Tony, you are such a sweetheart! Don't stop your "blethering"!! You are exactly right, those who don't care for it, can just push pause, or off, can't they? The rest of us treasure your friendly chats, thank you!
I know. I know. I should just delete the comments. Actually, I do.
Loved the story and blether as always! So grateful to have found your channel. Merry Christmas Tony.
I enjoy your stories but must make a comment about bridge! As a card player bridge is my favourite game because you never stop learning. Most card games get boring because once you learn the rules, that’s it. Whereas bridge has so many “conventions and systems” to learn that it is continually interesting. However, you can also learn the basics and just play. It caters to everyone.
The "red bedroom" and the "tramp tramp!" Make this a proper story for Christmas night gathered around the fire.❤️Hurrah! It's the 11h day of Christmas!
one more to go
Very enjoyable, blether on. Your fan in a warm and sunny Saudi Arabia.
You’re the first person who’s said they are from Saudi
thanks Tony. Merry Xmas and looking forward to more great stories narrated by you, in the new year.
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Merry Christmas :)
I enjoy the after ‘blather’ lol. Thank you for sharing these stories with us.
I enjoy the blether
Merry Christmas Tony. I hope you and your family had a wonderful time. A fantastic story and I love for your post narration blether. Bring on blether level 10!
I hate to think what level 10 would be
Thanks!
Sorry I missed this. Thank you so much
Wonderful story and narration! I love this story! I will be listening to this one again. I cannot express how awesome this is!
I know it is late, but Merry Christmas to all!
I love the after story chats! They are amazing. Anyone not liking them can go play marbles in the road. I love the part of the chat calling out the "snowflakes". They would not know real PTSD if it stared them in the face.
Merry Christmas, Don.
Thank you! Merry Christmas 🎅
The after story is a wealth of information happy holiday
I enjoyed the personal story too. You have an easy manner ✨
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The glitterati deep in stage 3 blather 💕
Have you ever thought of doing little episodes where you "blither" about stories you don't necessarily feel like reading? I was listening to a different creator read Hugh Warpoles Field with five trees and really wanted one of your literary analysis at the end of it
Thank you for this wonderfully classic Christmas tale! Blather? There are people who don't like your "blather"? They probably kick small dogs and take candy from children (or vice versa), too! I think of your afterwards like the lectures of a favorite professor. It's fun to listen to and I sometimes learn a thing or two as well. I hope you had a peaceful Winter Solstice and please do have a Merry Christmas🎄 and a Happy New Year✨️.
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Yeah, I really love the whole everything is good and the characters do all the right things and are likable and things are wrapped up really well and neatly.
I like the stage 3 blather stuff especially when it has to do with the pups, btw. ❤ Callie sounds like the absolute sweetest. I’m glad she was able to make some good friends. It makes my day when I come across a dog like that. Also, hopefully Jasper grows out of the being afraid of being on vehicles, as my Calypso, wasn’t fond of cars for the first year or so of her life, but she grew out of it.
Ruby was unwell at the end of her first season but is back to her usual crazy self . Callie is having g a phantom pregnancy at the moment so not a happy girl but Jasper is a gallumphing happy lad
🎋🌲🎋thank you
that was excellent, thanks for that ❤
Wishing you a Merry Christmas Tony.
My dad loved playing cribbage. I tell people that's why he named me Peg.
Listening from Philadelphia! (Love the after story commentary)edit: i used to have a subscription to ellery queen mystery magazine. I love having short stories in physical form.
As a sister Bletherer, blether away. Blether into the New Year and Beyond. ❤❤❤❤
We should form a club
@@ClassicGhost Bletherers Anonymous or Bletherers International?
@@tomatoangel1 international:)
I think the blather (?) is interesting. I enjoy your reads and your narration! You have a great voice!
+@karenanderson1808 Thank you .
you’ve cheered me up after reading
another moaning comment.
Games are not fun, but stressful to me. Rules offend when you have an ADHD brain. Love your ramblings. Thanks for these. It's great for me to rewind stories when my brain has wandered. 😊
i do that too
A great story, thank you Tony. On a different topic, will you be doing any more articles for the Mood Meds site? I found it very useful.
Oh, what is this? Can anyone look this up? Could you post a link in a reply to this comment? I’m VERY INTERESTED! The UK offers REALLY USEFUL WEBSITES that explain SO MUCH MORE than here in the U.S. , where we are BOMBARDED by ADvert-the-I-ze- meant to “ask your doctor” for blah blah & side effects include worse symptoms & suicidal tendencies.
I tried to post the link but it was removed. Maybe Tony will reply.
Yes, we do like him.
Merry Christmas Tony, from Australia ❤
belated Merry Christmas! Happy New Year :)
I felt so sorry for Charlotte's mum. Not only to lose your husband and have a child to raise, but to find out he has left no provision for you but everything to his first wife. What kind of a man does that?
That thought also crossed my mind, and I decided second wife must have money, or at least family with money, and maybe was not interested in living on and managing a large estate alone.
@@57trensota75 Women are hypergamus quite frankly modern people have it easy compared to the past I say grow a spine and get on with it
I’m here for Tony’s voice, blather or no.
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PS: If you don't have any money, go to your library and recommend they buy Tony's books. You can and they will. Come armed with the ISBN number and they will have no excuse not to.
that sounds like fantastic advice to me :))
I enjoyed the blether.
Happy Christmas Tony ❤
Happy Christmas!
Thanks! $um-thing 💰for the coming year, I share with you, as you share with us. Health, Wealth, & Happiness to you & yours this holiday season & for the new year! 💚Merry 🎄🎁 Christmas❣️
thank you so much 😊
These tales must've been what Andy Williams sang about.
? I need to google that
Happy Christ-i-mas Tony!
That's the right way to say it of course.
Charlotte Riddell was born in 1832 and died in 1906, at the age of 73 years.
Thanks
Platinum Level blether! 😅
Platinum !! Thanks Holly
Hope you have a blessed MERRY HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS day. GOD bless you, in JESUS NAME AMEN thank you for your wonderful readings. 💜💖😁💖
What is it with British people and Christmas ghost stories? It's not a tradition in the US.
My mother would read the Pickwick Papers and A Christmas Carol to us at Christmastime and they both have ghost stories. My mother's family is English, by the way.
Regarding literature in magazines, Tony, back in my youth, the Redbook magazine was a general ladies magazine but always had several quality short stories and maybe even a novella or episode of a novel. When they stopped the stories I switched to Victoria for awhile. All magazines now are pathetic to me. Except Smithsonian or the like. If you create one, I'd subscribe.
We might!
This one is one of the better ones. Some of these tales are frankly rather lame.
Amazing, thanks!
Describing someone as a ‘snotty mare’ may now be cannon for me 😂
Merriest of holidays, Tony. Hope you have some time to rest.
Cheers