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

Local Cafe/bakery put up their Christmas ordering list!

Picked up the salted caramel gonks in Aldi and littlest elf said 5/10.

Moved on to Aldi peanut butter Christmas trees and littlest elf said they were a solid 10/10!!

😂 Have no idea where they got that from 😂

Pissing it down here in Waterford

Jesus got a bit of a fright seeing the 'Christmas Countdown' it's only 87 days away. Where has the time gone

Yeah, same. Was in lidl yesterday and they had no Christmas goodies out either.

Saw these

Yeah it's mad to think about how far into the year we are now.

Back to work today after two weeks off. The usual first day back and couldn't connect to my machine for three hours! The weather is definitely a lot more wintry. The wet, windy and grey days really don't inspire you to do much.

I thought there would be more Christmas products in the shops by now. My local Dunnes still just has the tubs and a few shelves of chocolates. I did spot one stand with mince pies, but I'm sure they'll be adding plenty in the next few weeks. Lidl only had the tubs, but they always seem to be a bit slower to get in the festive spirit. Stollen Day can't be too far away now!

Hard to believe tomorrow is October 1st, so it's definitely time to get the Christmas cake made. That'll be my job for the weekend. I usually try to start in September, so I'm already a bit behind. The next few weeks are going to fly by.

Needing some Christmas spirit at the moment, I have a self imposed embargo on Christmas music and podcasts until December. I have it each year and break it, however not usually this early. I downloaded some podcasts but was strong enough not to listen.

Nothing Christmasy in the stores here, all halloween.

Ah, I have that with the mainstream Christmas tunes myself, used to be not listen before Christmas FM launches, but since covid & the DJs starting early November online that's been breached once or twice. Funnily enough, haven't felt the urge as much this year really, no embargo but haven't listened to even classical that much & just the odd podcast, I have a load of them to catch up on now in fact.

BTW, October!!! September barely wiped its feet!!

Crazy. 4 weeks or so until being in season is hard to believe. 4 weeks ago I was still going to outdoor summer gigs 🙃

You And my Mrs, she loves the dunnes Christmas stuff, we always end up getting some bits from them every year without fail.

Went to Portugal for 3 weeks and just got back yesterday. Our daughters came out for the first week and when they arrived back we got a call to say that the fridge freezer had conked out 😩. The dogs got a great feed and about 90% of the contents had to be binned. It’s only three and a half years old and cost a bloody fortune when we bought it so I’m pretty ticked off. Apparently the warranty is only 2 years because we didn’t register it 😤. Anyway, an engineer is calling on Tuesday to look at it and see what can be done, it may be the compressor which is guaranteed for 10 years but if it is we’ll have to pay the labour costs and apparently it’s a very big job. Fingers crossed 🤞, if I could get back on a plane this morning I would.

Do you know if this includes gift vouchers?

We had a guy recommended by the shop where we bought it come out to look at it and he told our daughter that he couldn’t fix it and basically that it was shot. Samsung wouldn’t accept his report so we have to get their own engineer out to access it. It’s ridiculous to be honest. My husband is dealing with it as he’s more patient than I am. This cost us €3500 just over three and a half years ago, honestly never again.

Must be something in the air - our washing machine also kicked the bucket this week. Although, we had it for nearly 10 years so really it owed us nothing. Still not looking forward to forking out for a new one over the weekend.

That's awful Cork Lass and not something you want to face into when you're just back from holidays. I know it's technically out of warranty, but surely a fridge freezer should last longer than 3½ years? I'd try going back to the shop you bought it from too, see if you can get anything out of them, although it's probably unlikely.

Well hello everyone! Hope you're all well. Can't believe the year has flown by so quickly. Certainly been a mixed year for me with an incredibly stressed year of work tempered by a lovely summer holiday and a weekend in Center Parcs a fortnight ago

Started the Christmas shopping too and thinking this'll be the last year of Santa for child #1 as she's in 6th class. Bot of sadness over that, it went on the blink of an eye.

I was in Boots in Liffey Valley yesterday and they seem to be preparing an area for their Christmas presents. It looks like it's a different area to the last, eh, two decades!! Doesn't seem right 🤣

Jingle all the way on film4 at moment, not the best Christmas film I know.

Also That's Fabulous channel Xmas music weekend.