Niagara Falls and a Christmas snail.

Twas the grand month of Christmas and all through the studio, it was our final in person episode of 2025 you know.

From Best Western to Radio Western, light shows and Niagara Takes Flight. At the Falls the mist was rising into the air, our 70th birthday celebrations to show our father we care.

The photos of Bob through the years, made up by his eldest son whose artistic talents were clear.

Sister/co-host Kerry and BF Barry and Oyster were all ready to fly back to Ireland for Christmas, Air Canada’s accessibility features on their TV screens, inclusion and access so good we could cry.

When what to bachelor brother/co-host Brian’s hands does appear, but the best Christmas gift, from any sister, of any a year.

When what with our blind eyes should appear, but Bill C15, announced by Canadian Assistive Technology, Canada Post appealing The Free Literature for the Blind Service, this development is unclear. Learn more here including how you can help:

https://nnels.ca/news/bill-c-15

This December it was a snowy holiday visit to Niagara On The Lake for us and, for Kerry and Barry and parents, a Coyle’s Christmas shopping extravaganza, coming home with gifts for parents, seasonal snacks, and nature themed ornaments for the minimal Christmas tree at Walter Street.

Nollaig Shona duit

BFB (Barry) and Lester/Oyster wish everyone, our amazing listeners, a Happy Christmas, from one Canadian weather extreme to the other, in the Irish language.

So farewell as we at Outlook close 2025. Bob through the years, hands off Franklin The Turtle, and Niagara Takes Flight yet it could be even more inclusive with audio description.

Happy Winter Solstice or however/whatever you celebrate this time of year. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

And get ready to rumble! Reindeer rumble that is.

Check out Snaildartha: The Story of Jerry the Christmas Snail,” played annually on John Solomon’s 25-hour holiday radio show, with a soul jazz extravaganza in a festive league all its own:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k1jilPdaFEo5KA8cFOrGgZgOIfHTx4v00

This year, 2025, this month is the ten year anniversary of a bad fall Brian had, acquiring a brain injury and seizure disorder just before Christmas and we wrote a song about that time which premiered on Jon Solomon’s show in 2020. Check it out here:

https://soundcloud.com/skipatrolmusic/ski-patrol-lighting-up-a-dark-season

And here’s co-host Kerry’s favourite Christmas song Brian plays for her on his Christmas edition of Chin Music every year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARq6uYSsUq0