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A rather mighty hello to you all - HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Got to be mighty in the face of adversity - the mighty are often not without fear, but rather act in spite of it. We are, of course, corresponding via the FOUR BLOKES NEWSLETTER for the last time in 2025! I hope the Christmas special was a doozy, perhaps slightly sentimental admist sherry-red hedonism. This December edition will be without grandiose notions and will merely recap the events of the 12th month. However - it may do so at quite some length as I seemed to waffle quite a big while writing it, so sorry about that fellows. Without further adieu... On December 1st a switch went off in my mind and, for the first time in a long time, I'd started having new ideas for songs. They were only feint to begin with - an idea for the structure, arrangement and lyrical content of a song called "Dockers" was what came to me on the tube into Uni - but nevertheless it is nice to move away from the 14 tracks on the second LP th...

  HO HO HO! MEEEEEEEEERRY CHRISTMAS! A special time of year when, on the supposed birthday of a religious figure you may or may not be fond of (I personally think Jesus was pretty alright, a good socialist, although he had a tendency to self-mythologise) we all return from our adult lives to the family of origin, sit around an indoor tree, remove the shiny paper and ribbons used to conceal the true nature of objects, and drink and eat ourselves into a catatonic state. Really really spectacular - my favorite part of Christmas day is the wee small hours of the morning, 9 bottles of real ale deep, watching auld crap on YouTube in my new polo neck shirt... hope everyone got the gifts they wanted by the way. If nothing else, you got a card from Four Blokes. As with all Four Blokes Newsletters this is essentially an anecdotal recount of events in chronological order, only this time we're doing a whistle-stop tour of ALL OF 2025! Christmas is a good time to reflect on the year's event...