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

So happy to read your post this morning, the very very best of luck with everything in your new home.

Won't be long before you're deciding where to put the tree.

@Smell the glove congrats on your new home, delighted for you. A smashing early Christmas present if ever there was one.

@Smell the glove Massive congratulations on the house. Bring on Christmas and all of the other amazing times you'll have there.

God the leaving cert discourse. I did mine twice (sure why wouldn't you) and I still never had the leaving cert dream. Don't think I'd fancy being swept up in the hectic mayhem now. I've a friend who has a junior and leaving cert elf and it seems manic.

I think I was in the last year to do the Junior Cert, end of second year exams. I think people leaving after their Inter Cert was starting to really fade out as we were 90% staying to do the Leaving so the old Junior was becoming obsolete.

Absolutely ha. Tree has to go at the window and maybe lights around the double doors into the kitchen and of course the garland around the fireplace 😀

Thanks a lot! Yes, the wife has already rolled her eyes in jest at my conversations.

Cheers 🎅🏻

Congrats on the new home @Smell the glove

Watching the D-Day coverage for the 80th Anniversary on the news today took me back 30 years ago to the 50th Anniversary, where on a European School trip, I remember sitting on a ledge at Omaha Beach looking out at that very sea in the lead up to the events. As I was only 13 at the time, I didn't really understand the significance of it at the time, but now that I'm older & more knowledgeable about it all, I'm glad to have gotten that opportunity. I also remember we had to sail from England to France on an overnight sailing & we were surrounded by some of the veterans travelling over for the Anniversary.

Yep, into the 100s from Sunday... mad how fast that 100 days has gone, and we all know what the last 100 go like (from 99 to zero) so this the last chunk of the year before the madness.

Dreading going back on Tuesday to miserable cold weather... seems like it's a given though 🙁

We head home tomorrow,back in work on Thursday, dreading it. Christmas still feels so far away and that'll be my next decent break, so I've a stretch to get through and will be needing all the Christmas buzz this year.

We head home from ours today, the joys of secondary school time for the kids, normally it would have been July.

At least I'm home now for the euros though, looking forward to that.

All the "activities" are also finishing up. Which on one hand is great as you've your evenings/weekends free, but on the other hand you have to actually parent your kids and entertain them yourself now 😂