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

Happy Bank Holiday Monday everyone. Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend.

With the rain easing off a little today think we'll get outdoors for a nice long walk or suchlike... Big week of work ahead of me so making the most of the time before I go back into the trenches.

That's such great news - what a happy time for you. Christmas is the best when there are kids around.

Congratulations to you both 👶🍼🎉

Cheers everyone!

Congrats @Smell the glove, great news!!🙂🙂

At least its not twins!!

I remember a mate who'd had twins about 2 years before ours arrived, I'd asked him just before ours were born what the first year had been like, he said he had just two words 'amazing' and 'hell'... having been through it myself now I can concur😀

Twins would petrify me! The child is due in October so this Christmas is going to be absolutely insane 😄

As I'm WFH for the first time in a good while today and I've finished all my zoom/teams meetings for the day decided to stick on Christmas FM classical in the background, but I have to put my hands up & say that I'm just not feeling it at all, which is unusual for me as I listen in to the classical throughout the year, but for whatever reason its just not lifting my spirits at all today. Hadn't listened in to it for a good few weeks now either so a little surprised by that.

Very little in the way of christmas cravings so far this year.

To be fair I was almost laughing writing that last post, it is the month of May after all, I shouldn't really be surprised at not being into some classical christmas tunes given its summertime (no arguments on that please folks, I use the traditional old school seasonal calendar😀) so i listened to the latest Merry Britsmas podcast (his first since Christmas in fact) which did the job nicely in keeping me entertained whilst I closed out my workday.

Looking forward to wrapping up here later today, heading to see Rovers tonight with the kids & will crack open a bottle of wine or a beer or 2 tomorrow evening to unwind a little... have the last few episodes of Ozark to watch too so hopefully the weekend goes to plan!

Have a good one y'all!!

TGIF! I've not got anything exciting planned for the weekend but how is it that 4 day weeks can sometimes feel longer than the normal 5 days.

I've been getting really into Lego because I've been watching Lego masters and I can see two of their Christmas sets are still up for sale on the website. I'm very tempted so maybe next payday I'll be treating myself.

Absolutely, this week was like a month. Definitely get the Lego - you'll have it for years and it will probably cost a fortune coming up to Christmas.

So much for the weekend off, lads in the office way behind on the drawings due to be issued today so its a weekend of work instead... its getting beyond a joke now with the hours being put in.

Checking back in to see how everyone is. Not feeling entirely Christmassy either @DvB and I feel your pain working weekends, can't remember the last weekend I didnt at least do one day.

We are dreaming of buying a home at the moment and each property we view I am picturing what Christmas would be like in it.

Hectic weekend, but we ended up having a nice afternoon yesterday. Went to St. Catherines park and had a lovely walk, then we had a coffee at the market there (& got some food for the kids) and we sat & listened to a local band kill a few covers as they sang live there.... I admired their confidence to sing live but even being gracious, they were murdering the stuff, but credit where its due, at least they were out doing their thing.

We had a chat about Christmas too whilst we were sat having our coffee's, as we're away on holidays for this coming christmas it already has an unusual feel to it as all our focus is the holiday & the wedding we're going there for, in a way its really messed up the balance of the year as normally we'd have a summer break to look forward to, but with the holiday costing as much as it is theres no way we can do anything on top of that... suspect the build up to christmas will be unusual too seeing as we wont be here for it or new years... Anyway, its a change, and change is good for the soul... I suspect we'll have a ball on holiday & then be raring for a traditional stay at home christmas for 2023.

It's mad isn't it! One of the kids got a note home about a school tour in June & part of me was like oh grand, that's about two months away! It's three weeks! How is that possible?

Noooooooooo! I'm not ready to think about that yet!

You knows it makes sense 😉