Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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26 October 2008
09:018064Looking around a few days ago while stuck in a traffic jam in Folkestone Road I spotted a window with a Christmas tree up and decorated in it. It is only October!!!!
Even most shops, while having some Christmas goodies in store do not yet have decorations up.
The first Christmas advert appeared on a digital channel in July (though my son says he spotted it in June.....)
Now I do like Christmas, I love it, the atmosphere and so on, but this really is getting too much.
We dont usually put up our decorations until the weekend before Christmas day, unless, having a big family, we are hosting an early Christmas dinner for those we wont see on Christmas itself. We also take them down on the nearest weekend to the 12th night.
To do otherwise simply dilutes and devalues the whole of Christmas. What on earth can motivate some people to put up their decorations in October? If there is an elderly or terminally ill person in the household who is not likely to survive until Christmas itself then I can understand it, but if not...
What do you think? When do you put up your decorations?
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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26 October 2008
09:398066We put up our first tree (a little one) on Advent Sunday. We take it down at Candlemas.
All the other bits and pieces tend to go up over a few days around the middle of December, and come down on New Year's Day (fresh start to the New Year, you see), apart from my garden lights, which go up at the beginning of December and get turned off on 6th January. The three wise men figurines appear on Christmas Eve, and and then turn up in various places around the house until they get to the crib at Epiphany. We have a present each at dinner time, and then the crib goes away, till next year.
Christmas is complicated in our house ....
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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26 October 2008
10:058071I have received my first Christmas Card .
26 October 2008
11:068077Blimey! We are the same as Barry - the weekend before Christmas is soon enough for the tree!! The kids have their calendars (even now they are teens!) and we have a brandy!! And yes, New Years Day is a good, clean start to the new year. Now, all I need is advice about how to remove all the damn glitter from the carpet before July.......
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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26 October 2008
16:438094As the last family birthday of the year is only on the 10th December, we tend not to get into any Xmas preparations (and before anyone starts the X is a very religious based shorthand for christ and so acceptable as an alternative spelling) until after that. Our Lilith is very protective of her birthday and nothing can be allowed to detract from it. That and I have never liked too much decoration anyway.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Brian Dixon
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27 October 2008
08:528103p and o have xmass trees all over there ships as of yesterday,looks like they been up for awhile?.
27 October 2008
10:578115Bit like the 'christmas lights' in castle street, been up for ages.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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27 October 2008
11:468119Chris, how old is little Lilith now? As the years seem to be flying past its hard to keep track.Good for her. Her Birthday is special. Christmas can wait
We get started a couple of weeks before Christmas and dont take anything down until the 12th night. I hate the initial bareness of it all so I wait till its bad luck to leave them ...up to the very last minute
Mine also still have the calendars Bern
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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27 October 2008
17:398126Colette, She will be six this year and it is frightening where the time goes, Thalia is already 13.5 months and Honor will actually be ten in May (double figures - now I really feel old).
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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27 October 2008
20:178133How old is 13.5 months for God sakes
Is it 1 yr 1 month 5 days
Is it 1 yr 1 1/2 months or what?
I had my lot weighed in pounds and ounces and measured in inches..far easier to understand.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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27 October 2008
23:548148One year, one month and thirteen days, until midnight.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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28 October 2008
04:298153Thanks and congratulations,Thats a lot easier for a person of my limited intellect to understand.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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28 October 2008
18:448190Saw my first lot of christmas dec's up on the way home tonight whens christmas
Weird Granny Slater
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Matey
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I see that some of the supermarkets have Easter eggs in for a few weeks already. Crazy!
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
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Christmas isn't that long away now
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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There's a house in Cherry Tree Avenue that looks like it has a Christmas tree still in its front window.
Keith Sansum1
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Still quite a few up including some large halls
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Yes, Candlemas is Wednesday, so decorations down then.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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