General Chat

Bought the treee? etc etc.

I know Joy won't have until after her birthday but has anyone started putting up decorations? I noticed at least one house decorated on the way to town. Ours willw ait until the first week in December. Just wrapping presents now. Back later.

Hi Ann, we will put ours up the first week as well.

Can l just say once again, please take care if you are going in the loft at this time of the year. !!

Hi Ann,

There are loads up in the USA here....and boy do they go to town ...yesterday I saw a tree in a front garden decorated with flip flops that were somehow sprayed with glitter and in each flip flop were a light . hmmm different I thought but very effective .

Another tree in the garden had those swimming foam tubes cut in about 6 inch in length also sprayed with glitter . mined you these are on the beach houses !!!

I'm going to take a photo of them today.

Marilyn x

Send us some beach weather Marilyn, hope you are having a wonderful time. Flip flop lights!! Hmmm! Could catch on.

Not yet, but some of the neighbours have. But yet again, they don't take them down from the previous year, just plug into the electric anytime from late October onwards. LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

Lazy lot aren't they? Yes there are a few around in Glos like that. Next door have put their lights up but not switched on yet.

I've got the tree out of its box and put it in the living room, wanted to see where it will 'fit' here while I am still re-arranging the furniture. We'll probably decorate it on the 1st, though I usually wait till my birthday.

As it looks like I shall be unable to travel to Ireland as I usually do, I am having a massive sulk! So, no decs, no tree, no presents, etc. etc. Stiuff it! lol BC XX

No decorations up in our house yet, but there are three houses in the street with lots on their walls already, looking very festive. (One of them, like Julia, hasn't taken them down for two years, so they just plug and go.)

I don't normally decorate until a day or two before Christmas. but we have guests for the weekend before Christmas, so may have to do it earlier this year. I shall take heed of Mummo's warning when I send the butler up into the loft for the boxes. Quite why we have so many decorations, many which never get used, I don't know. It is just fun looking at them all and remembering where we lived when we bought them, or when the children made them at playschool or school, many years ago!

I think the snowy scene outside may prompt us to decorate early!

Elisabeth x

Awwww BC, if you can't get to Ireland then a bit of Irish Christmas must come to you instead ?

Just seen the first House all deccorated.
I was so shocked I put a thread up on chat!

Teresa

Nooo, probably won't till the 17th Dec...grandson is coming on the 18th and he'll decorate the tree. Tree is out cause we bought it last week, (in a box) needs it branches sorting though.
We haveone of the those round the corner where they just plug in each year!!!! lazy and dangerous!!

jude :o)

BC, go on, cheer yourself up, put out some sparkle buy a bottle of Baileys and enjoy!!!

I have to say Kitty, I am a 70 year old big kid and couldn't wait until christmas eve.

I put my decs up this morning in the homeless hostel where i work.Thought it may make it a bit cosier for the children.Will not be doing mine at home to the very last though. Annie

Have not had decs up since my dad came home from hospital. No room for tree as we have the bed in front room and things that were moved to accomodate it in other places.

A couple of years before I went shopping just before Christmas and saw a seven foot tree reduced.Well I pestered and pestered all over Christmas so ,on the first day of the sales,OH went off and bought me the £70 tree for £15.
It took up most of the front room but it shut me up for a bit!

Always do my tree gold and glass and add a few more decs every year.

Waves back to Shelly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ops...board name gone all funny .....
Hi Ann,
Here's those Christmas tree's I was talking about earlier on thread, I have just realized how tacky they are ...LOL.... better at night in the dark with the lights on . the house is just across from the beach hence all the beachy thingy's
Marilyn x



http://picasaweb.google.com/ptb1944/XmasTree?authkey=Gv1sRgCN-gjNHS3fi_jgE#5546161777599510930

Sorry to put a damper on things, but the only decorations in our house will be Christmas cards. We have not celbrated Christmas other than having our neighbour in for the day, since our son died 10yrs ago. Seems not worth it somehow. Belong to a family who dont visit or ask what we are doing for Christmas, and friends have a full life with grandchildren. We just have a quiet day and a good meal.

Erm Marilyn very Florida aren't they? Well I suppose it is a beach house. Thanks for that!