Christmas Lights...

Ah, so! I'm amazed he hasn't sought out an Internet cafe in order to continue deleting and editing over his fried rice...
 
I put up our Christmas tree on Saturday and Mrs Mo put the final touches to it. I like it even though it's a tad earlier than usual (in recent years I've been putting it up during the Massey-Ferguson meeting). Nat & Dean's Christmas CD on in the background and nostalgic talk about past Christmases. It would have been nicer if I'd managed to avoid being wiped out on the betting front for the third week in a row.

Still, it brightens up the house in this dull period and is lovely to come home to. We even had a good laugh when we discovered poor Joseph's hand had snapped off so we put it in the crib instead of the Baby Jesus/Ardross and called it the Addams Family Crib.
 
I love coming downstairs in the morning to the smell of a real Christmas tree. I will be buying mine late though - 18th of December.
 
Mo! :o :D

And if Bar the Bull forgets to turn off the power switch to his optics, he too can come down in the morning to the smell of a Christmas tree...
 
I love real Christmas trees - the smell mainly, but also the look, the shape - and picking one up. We have a fantastic place near us & it was always a tradition that myself, Dad & my brother would go down to Yattendon, choose a tree from the thousands they had there for sale & point it out to the guys there who would take it & wrap it up for travel. Of course out here you get very few real trees which is a shame. The first Christmas I was out here we went to get a real tree for our flat as we found somewhere selling them - the trouble was that they were all a minimum of 5ft & weren't needlefast - not great in a flat!! There is no way I've got the space for a real tree in my flat which is a shame, but I'm hoping to be home for Christmas anyway! :D
 
Originally posted by Songsheet@Dec 5 2005, 05:52 PM
Are you sure, Brian? I would disagree with that - sure, for the first hour, maybe, they are thrilled to bits but for over month? Sorry but that is so not a convincing argument..... Those displays are for the adults, not the children - a mains ego trip if you will.
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Yes I am sure. What an extraordinary posting - I actually know them and talk to them and unless you feel they need one of Honest Tom's lie detectors they are delighted with the displays which some on here feel should be, er, de-lighted...

Not my personal cup of tea but each to his own and when the history of the world is written it won't get a mention.
 
Oh Brian - do try not to be so condescending in your responses to posts that disagree with yours. There is nothing 'extraordinary' about my posting - it's a basic observation on children's attention spans.

I don't remember saying in my post that it was of world-shattering importance that these displays should be time-limited. Like every other post on here, they are all entirely irrelevant in the great scheme of things.

Even yours..... :P
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Dec 6 2005, 12:13 AM
when the history of the world is written it won't get a mention.
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I beg to differ. I can see quite clearly that a future "timeline" of events of world shattering importance over the past 50 years or so will be something like this.

1963 Some Yank shot by a lone gunman or the CIA or the Mafia or something.
1966 England win the World Cup.
1969 3 dudes land on the moon, or a CBS warehouse thingy or something.
1982 Some Princess bint killed in a car crash.
1990 Berlin Wall brought down.
1990 African Terrorist released from prison.
1997 Some Princess bint killed in a car crash.
2005 Gaudy displays outside houses cause light pollution - class war erupts in UK. Black Flag say "if only we'd thought of that".
 
Originally posted by Songsheet@Dec 6 2005, 09:29 AM
Oh Brian - do try not to be so condescending in your responses to posts that disagree with yours.
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Tut tut, read yours again. It reads as if I was assuming that children of neighbours enjoyed their decorations rather than having had chats with them about it. That's all.
 
Originally posted by simmo@Dec 6 2005, 10:41 AM

2005 Gaudy displays outside houses cause light pollution - class war erupts in UK. Black Flag say "if only we'd thought of that".
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:lol: :lol:
 
Just saw an awful display on the news. Every square inch of the house, roof and lawn were covered in more lights than you'd expect to find in Blackpool :o Apparently they do it every year and people leave donations which are then given to a charity. Rumour has it that the neighbours tried to pay off the charity in question this year just so that they didn't have to endure the spectacle and the nuisance of people turning up by the car load to gawp. The first thing I said to Mr GG was "Lordy I'd hate to live opposite them! I'd be suicidal by December 5th!"
 
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