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

Al Ain.(I think)

Saw this earlier and thought of all the cat owners on here...

I was in Tesco Tonight and they had Lynx gift sets out. It's a smaller Tesco and they wouldn't normally have these.(I think it might be Christmas stock).

Last year it was delayed. Hopefully not this year. We might need to get one of us to get a job there to keep us informed.

Nice little place. I haven't been in many years, loads of Fijian lads there, the rugby club is good craic.

I went from Iphone to android and loved it. I have had a Huawei phone for years and its been unreal. It is dual sim which I need but now its locked out of many items on play store. I have been told the iphone 12 pro is dual sim also, if not it will go back.

I had an issue with apple which is Christmas related. One year I went to download Christmas albums which I had removed from my phone. When I downloaded it half the songs were missing. I emailed itunes (after days of been getting the run around) and they informed me the license for those songs had expired. I argued that I bought the songs not the license, they countered with pages of terms and conditions. I eventually got 99cent per song which was missing. If I hadn't of fought for it I would have gotten nothing. AHAHHHHH I dont want to deal with that company.

Noticed a difference this morning when the alarm went off at 6am, visibly darker than it had been even late last week, I needed to put a lamp on just to see what I was doing, and as I'd said last week, definitely chillier in the morning when leaving at around 6.45am I've noticed i's using the heating on the car, it might only be the 16 or 17 degree setting but it had been set to coldest for a while now so it was a noticeable moment changing it up ffor the first time in a few months.

Definitely an autumnal feel to it these days 🍂😁

You're welcome Posy. I know many considered it a trivial element but the bright colour scheme was very hard on my eyes and made the site far less enjoyable... all good now though!

DvB I have put dark reader on and though I am not mad about the aesthetic I can feel the difference in my eyes so it is staying. Like an early Christmas present from DvB

Won't be long now!

Funnily enough it reappears if you click into categories at the top of the page... but disappears if you actually click into any of the categories.... its all a bit weird!

Vaguely considering moving house at the moment and viewing a few places in the past week or so.

One which has ridiculously low ceilings I initially rejected as being "too small for a tree" due to that (its ~1700 sqft, vastly bigger than any house I've lived in before, but all the ceilings are about 6'6").

Another with no chain on the sellers side I thought of along the lines of "we'd be in here by Christmas".

Think that's a sign for me that its tipped over the time of year by now - although I'll still find whenever Brown Thomas open their Christmas shop to be way too early!

We have an offer on a house and I'm assuming we wouldn't be in by Christmas so thinking this might be our last one in this house- have to make it a good one

That’s how many Christmas house warming parties we have to attend 👍😉😄😄

I was the same in Dunnes on Saturday, other than the small boxes of quality street (ridiculously priced too) which I think are available all year round anyway I saw nothing. Was convinced we'd starting seeing the odd bit this time last year so was kind of expecting to see something. Must check back & see when we started spotting stuff last year, though that may be a chore with the search & find my posts functions not what they were (or gone altogether)

Funnily enough, I did hear over the weekend from my brother in law who works in logistics that there is a huge shortfall in haulage at the moment which is leading to items being unavailable, apparently there's a huge backlog of goods sitting in warehouses that cant be delivered into the country due to the lack of available transport.

So I suppose there's a real chance we could see shortages of Christmas stock... 🤔

Just to echo what Loughc said above, there's plenty of time yet for stuff to appear, in fact my neighbour only mentioned that the Dunnes Christmas stock is scheduled to appear soon, she did tell me a more precise time at the time but have genuinely forgotten. But brexit this time seems to be having a greater impact to haulage than Covid ever did so other products are likely to be affected, the answer to that, stock up early!!😆