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

I have a very distant memory of turning 30. It's not as daunting as turning 40 🙁.... or buying 50th cards for your friends 😖

Apologies Elves I know it’s off topic but Posy would you recommend the stone ? I’ve made the decision for stone but just wondering

New Kitchen happening here too, appliance, sink and floor shopping today fingers crossed

Well as an example, with us in 2019 we chose everything we wanted in terms of units, taps, sink type, colours, layout (significant changes to that to be fair) appliances etc in July/early August, and the strip out & install started the second last week in October, last few bits like tiling (which had to wait until after the stone countertop was installed) was the end of November. Then we had to get our floors installed. We literally finished it the day before the late late toy show & put the decorations up that day too... we only saw the kitchen look finished in its normal state in January 2020 when all the christmas decorations came down.

Don't underestimate refurbing a kitchen. Though it does depend on to what extent, if its a case of just changing units but keeping the layout the same it'll be a little less complicated.

This chat is putting the going on me to do our kitchen 😋 We have a great view from one end & I've a real desire to blow out the wall and have a larger window. Would mean moving our hob though & I'd ideally like to put our sink where the hob is now. House is only 6 years old though so don't really want to do my kitchen again as there is nothing wrong with it.

This is true....we are in the middle of groundsworks at the minute (so it finally won't look like we just stopped building yesterday) & one of the kids rooms needs painting, the spare room needs doing, but it's also our "office" for the minute so it's on the very long finger & then I'll probably want to repaint our bedroom so blowing the kitchen wall out of it will have to wait a while 😋

In other news, our company have announced that we will be going back to the office in early October 😥 As I'm only working part time at the minute, I'm really hoping that I can keep WFH....I can't face the commute over the M50 😭

we had them done earlier in the year... great now we have them, but they don't come cheap!!

We had decided to spend on redoing the en suite, new sofa, floors downstairs, doors downstairs. Then we put an offer on another house. That's still just sitting there but now we have a puppy so I'm very glad we still have the old floors, doors and sofa. However now have to decide how much puppy proofing to do if we may not be staying long (really need to increase the height of a fence and gate in the back garden before he works out that he could probably climb over it!).

Spotted in the UAE!

Just noticed Dunnes have a handful of Christmas bits on their website! They have the snowflake tea light holders, I know someone here was looking for them last year 😉 https://www.dunnesstores.com/c/home/highlights/new-in?sort=desc_freshness

We got white quartz and cashmere units... said something similar, if we're spending on a decent quality kitchen may as well finish it with a stone counter top. The hard part was getting the wall tiles to compliment both.

Love the stone, so happy we went with it.

Would love to know everyone's favourite tub of sweets, for me it's Quality Street all the way 😋

Quality Street miles ahead of any others ❤️

Celebrations,

Heroes,

Roses,

Quality Street

QS is the favourite in this house, then heroes and celebrations tie, depends on the mood. Roses are only meh these days.

A coupke of weeks ago I had one of those Cadbury Christmas puddings that were mentioned on the sweets thread and have to say I thought it was lovely.

Thanks DvB

We were in Dunnes too this morning in Blanchardstown I only seen tubs of Quality Street I did get excited when I seen the Halloween brack though

Have a great Saturday everyone

Ooh, they must have put the tubs out after I left... didn't see brack either at the time, shame as I would have picked one up.

The Range has substantial amounts of their Christmas shop out already. They don't do much Halloween but when that stuff is gone they'll fill that space too

Which shop? I was in Spinneys yesterday and they didnt even have halloween sweets in stock yet.

Found in my freezer yesterday!!