Pass the mince pies- Christmas Chat Thread Part Deux

SarahLil

Quality Street Lovers offer while stock lasts ends tomorrow 1.2 kilo https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/food-cupboard-seasonal-quality-street-tin-1-2-kilogram-/p-1558316000

Posy

Got mine already. :cool:

Loughc

SarahLil wrote: »

Quality Street Lovers offer while stock lasts ends tomorrow 1.2 kilo https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/food-cupboard-seasonal-quality-street-tin-1-2-kilogram-/p-1558316000

Thank you. I need to go to SuperValu tomorrow

SarahLil

What do you think elves ? https://lovindublin.com/news/christmas-lights-dublin?fbclid=IwAR1TUK6mRg9z1GIYspYmGL0ffGIE9ixTFjLK4pl1t4tocVTyERhmwfCAuX4

Toto Wolfcastle

SarahLil wrote: »

What do you think elves ? https://lovindublin.com/news/christmas-lights-dublin?fbclid=IwAR1TUK6mRg9z1GIYspYmGL0ffGIE9ixTFjLK4pl1t4tocVTyERhmwfCAuX4

I think it’s a good idea. A lot of the streets are just too narrow to handle the crowds. The big excitement for me is coming around the corner and see the Christmas lights for the first time.

SarahLil

Yeah me too Toto when I come across Christmas stuff and lights unexpected it gets me giddy
I’ve never been to an official turning on of the lights

kitten_k

SarahLil wrote: »

What do you think elves ? https://lovindublin.com/news/christmas-lights-dublin?fbclid=IwAR1TUK6mRg9z1GIYspYmGL0ffGIE9ixTFjLK4pl1t4tocVTyERhmwfCAuX4

Not happy!! Love going to see them being turned on, we do make a day of it.

Loughc

SarahLil wrote: »

What do you think elves ? https://lovindublin.com/news/christmas-lights-dublin?fbclid=IwAR1TUK6mRg9z1GIYspYmGL0ffGIE9ixTFjLK4pl1t4tocVTyERhmwfCAuX4

I can understand this decision, I know last year there was some crowd control issues and a lot of people couldn’t see and it became a health and safety issue.

The magic is in the glow of the lights anyway.

Loughc

kitten_k wrote: »

Not happy!! Love going to see them being turned on, we do make a day of it.

Completely get the disappointment why not pick a weekend day to pop in see the lights, get a hot chocolate and take it all in with a lot less people around.

Autosport

On the drive home this evening I spotted a house with their Christmas lights on

Loughc

Autosport wrote: »

On the drive home this evening I spotted a house with their Christmas lights on

Could be Halloween lights I’ve made that mistake a few times this year

Autosport

Loughc wrote: »

Could be Halloween lights I’ve made that mistake a few times this year

I may have stopped and driven back to double check, they were Christmas lights

Toto Wolfcastle

There are Christmas lights on my road too! Right next to a house decorated for Halloween.

gidget

Had a look around the M&S's & Brown Thomas's Christmas sections today & picked up the M&S food magazine. Oh the deserts look so scrumptious.

kitten_k

Loughc wrote: »

Completely get the disappointment why not pick a weekend day to pop in see the lights, get a hot chocolate and take it all in with a lot less people around.

Yea we will. We promised my god-daughter we would go to see them being turned on and then go to the Disney store to get her a Christmas decoration so will need to still bring her up that way.

Posy

SarahLil wrote: »

What do you think elves ? https://lovindublin.com/news/christmas-lights-dublin?fbclid=IwAR1TUK6mRg9z1GIYspYmGL0ffGIE9ixTFjLK4pl1t4tocVTyERhmwfCAuX4

Much better. Just put the lights on, without all the crowds and shenanigans.

SarahLil

I need a Christmas glow immediately
Our new ensuite was giving us trouble earlier today the fitter came back this evening said he fixed it
Made the problem worse leak from ensuite now coming through to my front hall
Argh only got the house recently painted it’s going to be along night and I’ll have to hang around tomorrow to make sure he sorts it properly this time

Posy

Oh no, I has a slow leak that cost me a carpet and a chunk of wall last year, so I feel your pain. I hope it gets sorted properly this time.

SarahLil wrote: »

I need a Christmas glow immediately

Here's a picture I took of Grafton Street this evening, if that helps.

Jude13

SarahLil wrote: »

I need a Christmas glow immediately
Our new ensuite was giving us trouble earlier today the fitter came back this evening said he fixed it
Made the problem worse leak from ensuite now coming through to my front hall
Argh only got the house recently painted it’s going to be along night and I’ll have to hang around tomorrow to make sure he sorts it properly this time

Feel your pain. Our cistern upstairs managed to crack in half last month whilst we were at work, so it never stopped filling. My OH came home to a waterfall down the stairs and the whole of downstairs flooded.

It's only just occurred to me that I won't see grafton street with its lovely lights this year. Or see other cars singing along to Christmas fm on the drive to limerick

Walking around the lake beside our house we noticed allot of outside lights up but they are for diwali which is coming up. I keep telling the OH that they are Christmas lights and the neighbors are making a mockery of us and I should get the candy cane lights out.

Toto Wolfcastle

Morning elves! Hope the water damage isn't too bad and can be fixed easily.

This morning a woman on my bus had a wrapped Christmas present.

Boom_Bap

I was super excited to see Mince Pies in the shops recently. I demolished a 6 pack over the last couple of days.

Jude13

I just ordered three packs of guide dogs for the blind (or as my dad says 'blind dogs for the guides') Christmas cards. I also ordered stamps, sadly there was no christmas ones on Anpost.ie

Loughc

That’s me trying to work out how it’s only 2 months to Christmas Eve.

DvB

Just worked out I have 36 days of work before we break up for christmas... and I'm taking a longer break this year too, carrying over holidays I didnt use so I'm only back on Monday Jan 7th!! So a nice break this year.

Havent been around much due to workload the last few days (Other than thanking the countdown posts) but its great to see so many new posters popping up in the forum here, a real sign that things are about to get real, so to speak!

Mystery Egg

Hey all. Sorry I haven't been around very much lately. Since Mini Egg arrived in the summer there's very little time for the Internet. Enjoying catching up on everything here.

I went to Brown Thomas last month and picked up a handful of beautiful tree decorations. The excitement can begin.

I'm really chuffed for our first Christmas as a family.

SarahLil

Hey elves its been a long day and I got little sleep last night tossing and turning about the leak it was near our fuse box so it kept playing on my mind,
Not a 100% problem is solved with the ensuite so they bathroom guy will be back once again to finish things off then il get my decorator back, my whole day was tied up with that today so it was Chinese for dinner and now I'm on the G&T
Hopefully after catching up on the posts here il be back to myself by bedtime

My gifts I ordered from Boots have arrived in store I need to pop up and collect them

Anymore Christmas lights spotted Elves?

L1011

My cards (and one new tree decoration) arrived today, impulse buy from the RNLI catalogue when I got the quarterly newsletter last week. Not the most Christmasy decoration but had to have it - https://shop.rnli.org/collections/homeware/products/penguin-felt-decoration

This is the earliest I have ever bought something for Christmas and I now feel slightly dirty :pac:

Don't do family presents anymore, with the exception of a young niece and nephew where I'll basically be told what to buy, and my partner who still hasn't given me the specifics of what was to be bought *last* year so its mostly food and booze buying from now on in.

Loughc

Looks like a fierce face off in Woodies today.

freshpopcorn

Is Woodies fully stocked?

SarahLil

Love it Lough Christmas wins every time