It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

They have started to announce the celebrities that are doing Strictly!

Oohhh I can’t wait for Strictly 😊😊

stats should be number one priority 😉👍

Getting our regulars back posting would be my priority... we need a little Christmas 🎄 😀

What you think of this

We go up every year too. We actually did go last year. One night in a hotel with the kids the week before Christmas. No Christmas market unfortunately but even staying in a different bed was a novelty for them. We kept to ourselves and had takeaway in the room.

Booked again for early December 🎄

It is a day for the ducks out there!!

Have stew in the slow cooker...very wintery feel to the day!

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend 😊

It was this forum that mainly had me still on boards as it was, but it's the only reason I'm still on it after the change of platform.

Be lost without this forum.

We're into the 130's!

We decided yesterday for certain that we are not coming home for Christmas. I is incredibly bitter sweet. We kind of knew this when we were home. Sadly it meant that we said goodbye to some older relatives for the last time as they are quite ill.

I am not sure I will have Christmas (bar Christmas day & eve as they are on the weekend) off this year. But I will make the most of it. My biggest internal struggle (bar hoping we get paid and can pay everyone from fees rather than savings)is to cook a turkey or order it in.

Have noticed in the last week or so the numbers of people in the Blanchardstown SC appear to be getting back to something approaching normal, we were up there late Saturday afternoon & it was rammed, we were going to pop in & have a coffee but my Mrs had forgotten her phone with her vaccination passport so had to give it a miss. But the numbers are certainly climbing in terms of customers, haven't seen it that busy since pre covid.

Noticed a couple of small christmas references over the weekend too... oh and my neighbour who works in Dunnes told me on Saturday that the QS tubs are due in for the end of the month... she knows me far too well 😃

Sending you hugs, Jude, that can't have been an easy decision!

In terms of the turkey, if you've only got two days off, order it in and relax for the two days instead of worrying about Dustin 😊

I'm having one of those two. Amazing reunion weekend, the last of our lot left this morning and bar putting on two loads of washing so far (3 more to go), and putting the bins out, I'm doing feck all for the rest of the day.

It’s getting closer and I still have 2 weeks until my summer holidays 😂😂

That'll be the vocal minority I suspect. Whilst many people will dislike the changes I suspect the majority over time will just get used to them and carry on. I really feared for us in here at one stage as it looked like there was only a half dozen of us posting again but I've seen a few more find their way here recently & the post count is definitely picking up again. The way I look at it is that you'll always get an unhappy cohort when there's change & there'll be a few in there that will shout loudest... that feedback section is hilarious at showing up hypocrites... plenty of 'I'm done' type posts only for them to be back the next day still whinging that they want they old site back or suchlike... boards is going nowhere, it'll recover, I suspect it already is to be fair.

Slowly seeing improvements too, so happy to wait it out in here and see how we go... one things for sure though Christmas & the build up wouldn't be the same without the shared excitement generated by our group here so I'll be going nowhere as long as we're still going in here anyway.

From a moderators p.o.v. how much worse is it loughc?

At this stage I'd settle for a dark mode being brought back and a few other small bits like being able to delete post & messages, threads with new posts standing out more etc. pretty basic stuff which I'm sure might happen in time anyway... hopefully.