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Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know my holiday plans! Well, okay, not quite my holiday plans, but my plan regarding my contributions to Mushroom FM during this holiday season.

I know the schedule says that there will be a single Sara Smiles at midnight Eastern on Christmas Eve, but this will not be the case. Tomorrow, December 23rd, will be the final Sara Smiles for 2025. We'll be talking Festivus with the cast of Seinfeld and playing the usual tunes from all four decades of Magic Mushroom Memories, with a few holiday things in the mix as well.

Greetings! It's me, Sara Hillis, and I come before you in my Folk and Celtic music show host's hat, which at this season of the year is festooned with festive decorations galore, to present to you the Come by the Hills Christmas special! At last, it's here! I've got carols, modern Christmas classics, spoken word and even a little festive silliness! So I hope you'll tune in if you have a mind, especially since this is the final new Come by the Hills episode for 2025! I'll have a rerun next week, and then it will be a whole new year!

We had a great countdown yesterday with lots of interactive fun and frolic, and of course the songs! If you missed any of the countdown or just want to see how a particular choice of yours might have performed, the chart is now live in 2025! Simply go to the same page you used for voting, and you'll find every song listed along with their positions in the countdown!

Finally! WE are only hours away from the 2025 edition of the Mushroom fM Holiday Countdown! The people have chosen and now the fun is about to begin!

Voting in the Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown is closed for another year, and now the preparation begins! We want to thank all who have voted this year, and if you haven't voted, you are still welcome to our virtual event. Simply inform the Fun Guys on the day of the event, and we can add you to one of our four virtual tables. And speaking of our virtual tables, you'll be able to find out where you're sitting when the seating plan goes live. That's also where you'll be able to keep track of your table's cracker score. What does this mean? More about it in my next post!

It's official! The final day to have your say in the Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown is here! You have till 11:59 PM North aMerican Eastern time tonight to head over to our voting page, pick your top ten holiday favourites either from our database or by writing them in, and press that Submit button! Please be kind to the elves and don't wait till the last minute to vote, so they can record your vote properly before the deadline.

Today is Jane Austen's 250th birthday. So why not show your pride and your prejudice, not to mention your sense and your sensibility and yield to the power of persuasion by heading over to our Countdown voting page right now and picking your top ten holiday-related tunes? Voting closes at 11:59 PM Eastern time in North America on Wednesday, December 17th. That's tomorrow! But why put off tomorrow what you can do today?

We've got a good thing going with lots of votes coming in, but if you haven't voted yet, do it now, or at least soon!

It's hard to believe, but the Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown is now just days away, and that means that there are even fewer days to get your vote in before the elves go into Countdown preparation mode! Again, we want to take time to say thank you to those who have already voted! Do check your spam for our invitation, but if for some reason you don't have an invitation, don't worry! You'll be able to find your virtual table when we publish our virtual seating plan closer to the date of the Countdown.

Where I live, in the northern hemisphere, the days are actually getting shorter, but the good news is that voting in our Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown is open 24/7 till 11:59 PM North American Eastern time on Wednesday, December 17th. You could cast your vote while enjoying your morning coffee, make your voice heard with your lunch, or have your say after supper! But do it soon! The days are quickly ticking down!

Can you believe it? We've entered the final weekend of voting in our Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown! A week from now, we'll be in the thick of counting down our top 100 songs as chosen by you! There are still a few days after this weekend to vote, but after Wednesday, December 17th, voting will be closed for another year.

All the details are available at: https://www.mushroomfm.com/countdown2025! So have your say! vote today!