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Just thought I would share the delightful news that once again my neighbours down the road have put up their decorations and illuminations already, infact they went up last week, all over the front of the house and garden.Great fun explaining to my children why father christmas is'nt due this week!!!

i just don't know what to say, I'm just enjoying the last of the summer, still not thinking about Christmas, well, maybe a bit, I take it they don't have an allotment, maybe that's what they need ;)

ugh! i hate it with passion! i hate going into a shop now and seeing christmas stuff. Up until february some shops still have christmas stuff on sale...and then places round here put christmas stuff in their windows in september! so half of the year we're in bloody lapland!

its too early to put up the decorations, what will be next creme eggs in november

We were sat in a pub a few weeks back that we often visit and like to sit in the alcove as you do  ;D

So keen on grabbing my wine and grabbing my favourite seat ,it was a fair few moments before hubby went .... :o  :o  :o
And pointed to the end of the bar, sat sitting there was a huge christmas tree with flashing lights  :o

The date? September the 17th  :-X

yuk....it's just silly. i mean i love putting a tree up when the shopping centres are full of people....every is talking to everyone...it's really cold and you've got the fire on....your sister's come home to help you put the tree up....you look outside the window and it's really windy and soon starts to snow....

that's when it's nice. not on a warm september afternoon when the sun's glaring down and the decorations on the tree are getting distorted because you put your tree next to the window which is melting them.

why not have a year round christmas so that it's not a special time at all.

Ridiklus!  Just picked another crop of courgettes.  Christmas decorations perleeeeez no!

love xmas

its the only time of year i see my sister and my niece and newphew as they live in yuma usa.


roll on december and i'll be with them in the nice weather .

xmas start for me in 6 weeks ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D time

Ridiculous! I love christmas but they bring the stuff out in the shops earlier and earlier each year.

I went to the garden centre today and had to walk through santa's grotto, etc. before I got the spring blubs.  Nearly walked back out again! shan't be going back until next year.  Christmas for me starts Christmas Eve.  My daughter's birthday is 23rd December, and when she was young, I always made of point of letting her have her birthday, without Christmas getting in the way.

we were round at friends last night, and one of the girls said she'd seen christmas lights in a local window too.

:'(

I adore Christmas ... I love everything about it ... the time with family, cooking the goose, putting up the trees (yeah I did mean trees ... I have three) ... I love making the christmas cake, the christmas puds ... mulled wine, wrapping paper ...  ;D

I don't start yet ... well apart from making cakes and puds of course ... 9th December is when we start to get in the mood.

The shops and pubs and restaurants do seem to start earlier each year. 

Our christmas tree goes up on Dec 18th(son no 2's birthday). When he was little it made his day even more special. :) :) :)

Ours goes up sometime round the beginning of the school holidays, when the girls can be bothered to get it out. It soon disappears afterwards; I don't think it's ever made it through the 12 days of Christmas.

I love Christmas too.  The start of our preparations is the beginning of November, as we usually get together as a family when I make my Christmas Cake and we have the grand stirring of the mixture before it goes into the tin. We all stand in a circle and mix the cake in turn and make a wish and then we spear one of the cherries in the mixture which we call stabbing the devil so we will have a happy Christmas season. It is one of our family traditions.  I play some Seasonal music and we have a glass of port and some snacks.  The cake goes into the oven for about five hours and then I wrap it up in grease proof paper occasionally unwrapping it to pour some brandy onto it, and then get it out a few weeks before Christmas so I can ice it. We usually put our decorations up in the first week in December.  :) busy_lizzie

I'm the only one in the family who eats Christmas cake. Even wedding cakes are only just eaten, as long as the icing gets stripped off first.

'Is that marzipan? Are those raisins? Thay look like raisins. Ugh, I will not eat that! I do not like Chistmas cake.'

I thought I'd make my Christmas cake this week as I've got the week off ...  :D

Round here, it's just one dizzy, twinkling blur all the way from Diwali (now, with the added fun of fireworks from dusk till the small hours  ::) ) to Chinese New Year.

You can hardly see Christmas for the dazzle!

Seen in entrance of Hotel near Leeds this weekend...........

the way the weather is going, we will need all the lights we can get to cheer us all up, I'm really missing summer nights now :-[