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8th December 2024

Warning: clicking on the video link will play "Last Christmas" by Wham! Do not do so if you want to avoid losing Whamageddon and being sent to Whamhalla. It's an unbelievable 40 years since Wham! released their Christmas Number 1, and the snowy mountain village where it was filmed is cashing in. Saas-Fee in the Valais in Switzerland is keen to get tourists along and this article in the Financial Times tells all. "Visitors who come to schuss down its 150km of pistes will also discover guided Wham! walks, Wham! cocktails, Wham! parties and, in the town’s museum, alongside 19th-century weaving looms, beds, dresses and ice axes, a new exhibition on the pop group’s stay in the Swiss Alps four decades ago." The video was shot in late November for a December release, even though the song was recorded in August. The ride in the cable car, only lasted for 50 metres, before they came down again. But normally it goes up to the start of the world’s highest funicular rail...

4th December 2022

Have you lost Whamageddon yet? Don't worry, I'm not going to spoil it for you - no video links here! If you haven't heard of it, the game starts in November when someone mentions it, and you drop out of the game the first time you hear "Last Christmas" by Wham! Are you still in?  There's also variations like DavidEssexAWintersTaleAgeddon, and of course Harkageddon - you lose as soon as your vicar schedules Hark The Herald when it's only the second Sunday in Advent. You could play HarkHunter, from the great Twitter account @QuireMemes: Tonight Sarah and I will be losing Harkageddon, but hopefully not Whamageddon, as we are going to the Carol Service at what is officially the UK's nicest Red-brick College in the Snow, Royal Holloway University of London. It narrowly beat Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford as Sarah got more likes on Facebook. Here it is: