First Domestic Christmas decorations

**Maggy J** · 21-11-2003, 23:32

So anyone spotted any Crimbo trees in any windows?Any nutters who have already used up half the fairylights in the county to outdo the neighbours?With just 8 days until the 1st December someone must have got twitchy.

Incog

Chimaera · 21-11-2003, 23:37

Oh yes - I passed one the other day - Christmas tree in the window, lights up outside the house - even had the 'snow' sprayed on the windows!
Very - erm - 'tasteful'!! NOT!!!!!

**Paul M** · 21-11-2003, 23:42

Many of the shops around here have them, and have for a couple of weeks.

Bex · 21-11-2003, 23:44

yeah we have decos in the local shops....waiting to pop into a village close to mine in which there is one house which always has a lot of lights (but they do it for charity) nemmy u might know the one i mean!!

**Maggy J** · 21-11-2003, 23:46

No I mean Domestic not retail.Retail have been around for weeks here.

Incog.

Chimaera · 21-11-2003, 23:46

Mind you, thinking about it, the best place to go near here is called Emerson Park - loads of huge houses there - and they try to outdo each other with their displays. One house even has a lighting company set up a special display every year - imported from America!!

**Paul M** · 21-11-2003, 23:49

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

No I mean Domestic not retail.Retail have been around for weeks here.
Incog.

Oh, well you never said :p - I haven't seen any houses with lights yet but then I haven't really been paying that much attention.

**Maggy J** · 21-11-2003, 23:54

I find them all so distracting when I'm driving at night.
I've never forgotten the time I nearly killed myself because the twinkley lights I thought were crimbo decs outside someone's house were in fact a HVG lorry reversing out of a narrow side road.I slammed on the brakes just in time.

Incog.

**Maggy J** · 21-11-2003, 23:55

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Originally Posted by pem

Oh, well you never said :p - I haven't seen any houses with lights yet but then I haven't really been paying that much attention.

I thought the subject heading covered it.

Incog.

Paul · 21-11-2003, 23:58

Doing our outside lights ready for the 1st. Won't be switched on till then though. Tree will be up on the first and no earlier.
Wasn't our lights Coggy

Not that they aren't distracting LOL but we try to keep them out of line of sight for the motorists.

Bifta · 22-11-2003, 00:21

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

So anyone spotted any Crimbo trees in any windows?Any nutters who have already used up half the fairylights in the county to outdo the neighbours?With just 8 days until the 1st December someone must have got twitchy.

Incog

Absolutely, there's a handful of houses round here that have undergone a transformation and become better lit and more tacky than Las Vegas already.

**Paul M** · 22-11-2003, 00:24

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

I thought the subject heading covered it.

Incog.

You mean I have to read titles now as well as the posts ....

CaKe · 22-11-2003, 00:30

Yup, there's a house over the road from us (we're in Priddy's Hard if anyone knows Gosport!) - they've had lights up since last weekend, possibly before - big snowman, big santa & fairy lights round the window

Still, maybe they're just following on from the ridiculously early light-switching-on in Commercial Road this year...

....bah, humbug. And I usually like Christmas...

**Maggy J** · 22-11-2003, 00:37

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Originally Posted by CaKe

Yup, there's a house over the road from us (we're in Priddy's Hard if anyone knows Gosport!) - they've had lights up since last weekend, possibly before - big snowman, big santa & fairy lights round the window

Still, maybe they're just following on from the ridiculously early light-switching-on in Commercial Road this year...

....bah, humbug. And I usually like Christmas...

Yes I find it harder and harder to summon up enthusiasm for crimbo each year.
and yes I know Priddy's Hard-I live in Lee-on-Solent.

btw I LURVE the name.

kronas · 22-11-2003, 00:52

call me an old fuddy duddy but christmas is driving me up the wall the idiotic music that gets played year in year out