It's almost here again...ho ho ho

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:02 pm

Vonny wrote:
cj wrote: Don't know where the smiley came from!
If you type an 8 and then ) it comes out as

So how do you get 8 followed by a bracket in a list?

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:18 pm

You have to leave a gap 8 )

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:47 pm

right i love Christmas, i hate seeing things before december although a few pressies on Ben's side of family have been bought. I will on Dec 1st armed with pay will be in Bluewater doing it all in one fell swoop-thank goodness its only parent, brother/sister her bf and Ben i need to buy for and friend Harriet!

Even though im almost 23 (yikes) and siblings almost (21-double yikes as i dont think im 21 let alone them!) we still have so much fun-off to CH chapel on xmas day morning-see all the kiddies in their nativity costumes with their new toys! Taking lots of time on opening pressie-last year the last one was opened at 9pm! and just being together all day as family as it really doesn't happen often now!

cj · Post by cj » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:43 pm

Thank you, Vonny

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:25 am

I LOVE CHRISTMAS.

I have already bought some pressies, unfortunately I buy gifts when I see them, put them away and have to buy another one because I have forgotten where I put the first one. It usually appears around Easter the next year.

My daughter has most of hers wrapped and in a box under her bed.

My twins' birthday is December 11th so we usually put the decorations up around their birthday, we certainly will this year as they will be 18 and the week of their birthday (a Monday) is packed with parties, trips etc.

shoz · Post by **shoz** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:57 pm

Anyone got their decorations up yet? Mid December for me.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:14 pm

shoz wrote:Anyone got their decorations up yet? Mid December for me.

Nope.

Usually the weekend before Christmas. Never usually more than 10 days before at the most.

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:16 pm

shoz wrote:Anyone got their decorations up yet? Mid December for me.

12 days of Xmas, December 24 to Jan 6

cj · Post by cj » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:13 pm

As we've got visitors arriving on the 23rd, and as the house is big, and becuse that's the only free weekend before Christmas (and for the sake of my sanity!), we shall put up our tree after the Christingle service on the 10th and the kids can decorate it then. Everything else will gradually take shape and we shall go collecting greenery on the 20th when hubby finishes work and the hols start proper. Slow and steady wins the race this year, not the mad panic at 3am on Christmas Eve.

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:29 pm

Probably when I get round to it !
But certainly NOT before 12th - my father`s birthday - at "home" we never put anything up before then.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:44 pm

Up on the 22nd ( so that Lovely Laura and BF can arrived to a decorated house ) , down on the 6th.

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:59 pm

mine will go up on 16th at flat and at parent i think at same time! The boyfriend has agreed to tasteful pink decs on the tree this year along with green and silvr/clear! yeah for me

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:14 pm

blondie95 wrote:mine will go up on 16th at flat and at parent i think at same time! The boyfriend has agreed to tasteful pink decs on the tree this year along with green and silvr/clear! yeah for me

Oh, No, Amy!!! No.

Driving along the A10 - that's is Essex chav territory, just last week there was this girl in the next lane driving an Escort XR3i (what else for an Essex chav?) with a fluffy pink cover on the steering wheel, fluffy pink dice on the rear door windows both sides and something big and pink qand fluffy in the back window, No; I am not telling porkies - they wre all pink and fluffy. OTOH I couldn't see (obviously) if whe was wearing a pu**y pelmet and white stilletos. I know it is the image but I'd not seen it taken to quite that literality before - and now I hear that that bastion of Kent sanity is emulating a ....a ..... a ..... it beggers belief. My flabber is truly gasted as someone used to say.

cj · Post by cj » Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:27 pm

My mother has bought daughter no. 1 a pink Christmas tree for her room. And we have all sorts on our tree - including quite a lot of traditional, festive elephants in various colours. Broaden your mind, sejintenej!

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:20 pm

Festive elephants ???? the mind boggles...
Christmas trees are a germanic/scandinavian tradition, and there arent any elephants there, at last count....