Pass the mince pies- Christmas Chat Thread Part Deux

Loughc

Jude13 wrote: »

I miss the "sure its Christmas" excuse for a pint of a bag of Haribo.

I was using that from the end of November :pac:

Jude13

Same, especially in relation to to pints of cider and whether I should have any more. Paying the price now.

Also opening the fridge and having a mad selection to choose from. 'I will have a lump of ham, some stuffing, brie with oinion relish, baileys fudge, glass of coke, Kegohs crisps and a few toffee quality street....then I will think about dinner"

Loughc

Jude13 wrote: »

Also opening the fridge and having a mad selection to choose from. 'I will have a lump of ham, some stuffing, brie with oinion relish, baileys fudge, glass of coke, Kegohs crisps and a few toffee quality street....then I will think about dinner"

Yum. Haha.

CrowdedHouse

Little orphan Robin left behind in the kitchen lol

Think I'll leave it there for another while

miamee

We still have our tree up We intended taking it down on Sunday but ran out of time. I haven't actually spent any time in the living room since Saturday but I know it's still there...hopefully will be able to get a bit of time in there tonight with the lights switched on one more time before we take it down, though we're going away for the weekend. It might still be there on Monday, lol.

DvB

I must admit i was using the 'feck it,its christmas' excuse for most of my snacking recently so it was a mixture of feelings to be told by herself that she'd brought most of the stuff we had left over in to work for her colleagues to devour... I originally thought 'ah no, I was looking forward to eating thet' but after falling asleep & failing to get any exercise in had a second thought & decided not having the temptation constantly there was a good thing.

Only back in work since Monday & i have to admit it feels like I was never off, knew I had a heavy workload to come back to but the day to day commitments have already got me well back into the swing of things. The twins are back to football & hurling this weekend after being back to swimming on Sunday last so we're back to normal now & I genuinely cant remember it ever happening so quickly, normally i'd be feeling sorry for myself in the pits of the post christmas blues but so far so good & feeling pretty positive. Though I'd murder a night out & a few pints of IPA or Guinness Thats one urge that I dont need a christmas excuse to indulge!!!

otnomart

Feel like January is speeding up already, next Tue it will be half gone !

Posy

Double figures already tomorrow!

Loughc

otnomart wrote: »

Feel like January is speeding up already, next Tue it will be half gone !

Oooh I like the sound of that!!

DvB

Going quicker than last year anyway. That January was a whopper for some reason.

freshpopcorn

Double digits of the first month in a few hours!

Posy

I can imagine freshpopcorn just staring at a clock, counting down to Christmas already the double figures! :pac:

Posy

Double figures! \o/

freshpopcorn

Posy wrote: »

I can imagine freshpopcorn just staring at a clock, counting down to Christmas already the double figures! :pac:

We're into the 340's!:)

Loughc

I found the perfect location for a Christmas forum meet-up :pac:

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/norway/articles/this-is-santa-claus-real-village-where-its-christmas-all-year-long/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=link_santa-xmas-land

OUTDOORLASS

Morning all, everything down and boxed waiting to go back to attic. The house is so bare.... Only good thing is there is a tiny bit
of lightness coming into the mornings/evenings.... As the saying goes..when Winter comes can Spring be far behind.
Loving the chat on the new thread.....

CheerLouth

Just realised this morning that we still have a little tree up in our little girls room and a star light in her window!

Sundew

Still havnt put my boxes of decorations away....all still stacked in corner. Spotted late last night that a bundle of outdoor lights Was on in the box. They are battery lights and for some reason I hadn’t turned them off. They were coming on at a certain time every evening.

Great to see all the Spring bulbs and Christmas roses coming up! Definitely a very early feeling of Spring in the air!

Posy

Christmas roses?

Loughc

Posy wrote: »

Christmas roses?

I really hope it’s the sweets.... I really hope they grow on a tree somewhere. I’d like to meet that tree.

DvB

Loughc wrote: »

I really hope it’s the sweets.... I really hope they grow on a tree somewhere. I’d like to meet that tree.

Theres a few of them on Quality street.



I know, terrible!!:D

Graces7

Posy wrote: »

Christmas roses?

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/details?plantid=947

Love these and so rarely see them....

Loughc

DvB wrote: »

Theres a few of them on Quality street.



I know, terrible!!:D

Boom! Love it

freshpopcorn

100 days until Easter!

Sundew

Graces7 wrote: »

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/details?plantid=947

Love these and so rarely see them....

Aldi & Lidl always sell these in the Spring! Bought a six pack of them last year for around a fiver. They are all in bloom now. Beautiful!

otnomart

First week in work over, now first post Christmas week-end !
Enjoy your Fri evening Elves !

Littlehorny

House around the corner still has tree up and lit. I know the couple to see, they keep their tree up the longest of anyone I've seen. Tree goes up around the middle of November and stays up till middle of January, a full 2 months.

freshpopcorn

Everything is down and back in the attic apart from the little tree in my bedroom. The living room is so empty I can hear the clock tick!

iguana

Christmas shopping well underway I found the boardgame Labyrinth in a charity shop for €2 which will be perfect for the Christmas eve box. I've bought lots of crafts and games for December. And I just bought a 1000pce Snowman and Snowdog jigsaw for the jigsaw advent calendar! Now tempted by a Snowdog teddy. S saw the cartoon for the first time this year and absolutely loved it so the teddy would be a huge hit.

Unfortunately S has also picked his Santa gift. Fortnite action figures. I'm not happy, they cost an absolute fortune, so even with the massive shopping time I'm not convinced they'll ever reach a price I'll be happy with or able to buy him an amount that feels like a real Christmas bounty.

Loughc

We got a free Amazon Echo and spot with our heating company and I’ve spent the evening setting them up feel like a kid at Christmas haha.

And yes I played ChristmasFM on it