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

Just ordered this from Dunnes. Only €10 and I absolutely love it!!😊

Was in The Range Waterford Wednesday they were putting some stock out then, hopefully they will be putting more out in a couple of weeks, looking for 480 lights for a tree outside i know half stopped working last year, seem to have to buy new sets every year quality not as good anymore.

No Christmas stuff for sale here yet. I am toying with buying this though. The OH is not so keen. Its 2.2m long and 1.4m high and has an LED light inside.

Wow Rudolph day has passed and we are into the eights the hype is getting real!!

how was everyone’s weekend ? We didn’t get up to much out for walks some dinner out, watching Ryder Cup and some online browsing for a Christmas Day outfit for my little one

My pal bought my little baby girl her first Christmas decoration she got her initial it’s fab

gorgeous Jellybear!!

DvB do tell of your purchases ?

Had a great w/e ourselves, all went to plan on the sporting front too which is always nice!! In the range we got a large standing cuddly reindeer complete with hat & scarf, my son fell in love with him so we just had to have him. We also picked up 1000 mixed white LED lights for our external christmas tree, we were originally going to go for the quality street multi colour look (to match the bushes at the front of the house) but they had them out on display & the mixed whites looked fantastic so the Mrs insisted we get them instead. We let the kids pick up a new bauble each as well for the tree (we do that every year) and I picked up a couple of small bits to add to my home office... felt I was light in there last year & needed some more christmas decor to brighten it up for the days I'm WFH in the run up.

Well it's lovely to be back in this forum, It's kinda going to be an odd Christmas this year for me, pretty sure its the last year of Santa arriving as my youngest just turned 12 and into secondary school next year and all going well its the last Christmas in our home of the last 15 years, and with missing most of Christmas last year due to being close contacts, I think I really need to cheerish this Christmas more then ever. Anyways great to be back and looking forward to chatting all things Christmas the next 3 months....

Oh Man thats a shame, very hard for them not to hear anything in School and we are probably being naïve in thinking she still believes but until she tells us otherwise let the magic continue. Your dead right to about making the same fuss about the occasion, so what if they know, the magic should never be diluted, and if anything should mean so much more as everybody will now be aware just how much hard work you have put in over past years.

Oh we will Thanks :-)

I've come to terms with the 'santa' years being over TBH, and as have said here before its just a moving on to another type of christmas for us as a family, its never been a case of doing it just for the kids, I'll love christmas till the day I die & if I have my way so will the family, change is nice as well as it needs to be mixed up over time, despite all our traditions and suchlike you need to keep it exciting and interesting and not a rinse & repeat kind of thing IMO, otherwise it will get a tad stale.

I have to admit I got such a buzz looking at all the christmas bits yesterday & am more excited about this coming christmas than I have been for a while (though I'm sure I say that every year 😁)

Next have their Christmas shop on their app

some gorgeous pieces some I would love for myself

3 for 2 on wrapping with gift tags, I seen the cutest gold wrapping paper with penguins on it

Ordered it today after seeing it on here. Got some robin baubles and two of the cushions that say naughty on one side and nice on the other 😂

Picked it up today and have it sitting on the mantle piece this evening 😁 The lights add a lovely glow to the room 😊 Will probably put it away till closer to Christmas but it was nice to have a trial run 😁

I reckoned that they were worth the gamble for a fiver each.

It's cold this morning! First one where I've considered putting the heating on.

Think yesterday may have been my last day of shorts for the year.

Sounds like a good time was had by all @TRS30 great stuff.

When you launch the app, cick on the 3 red lines at the top left, this brings up the menu, scroll down & you'll find 'our other stations' click on that and it lists the various different ones, click on classical & away you go!

BTW I agree with it being too early for the standard Christmas FM, but the classical one can be relaxing as background music, similar to lyric fm.

Just bought another Christmas present so that's my parents and sister sorted 😊

We're all being a little more frugal this year, I'm a divil for overspending, so I'm delighted with what I've got so far and I'm sticking to my budget 😁

The Orchard has their Christmas section up but closed off. Few bits outside the barriers.

Can't be long - already have the subtle lights up in the furniture areas

Flying Tiger now has an online store. Might be useful for Christmas!

https://eu.flyingtiger.com/