Wren Boys in Nov

dollybird2

Just opened my door, West side of the City, to 3 girls singing Rudolph. It's November ffs. Has the snow really brought Christmas forward this much??

snubbleste

Yes.
They've been subjected to so much christmas hype that they believe it is christmas already.

dollybird2

Thanks for clearing that up for me

I wouldn't let my kids out here as it's so slippy, never mind letting them off to knock on doors singing Christmas tunes in Nov and rattling a tin can of change at peoples doors. They rang the doorbell 3 times before I answered. Insistent little buggers :mad:

snubbleste

They have some initiative anyway.
I thought wren boys were actually boys. The girls get a go on St. Bridgets Day. Today's society has become so PC.

roe_cat

is that not just carollers rather than wren boys? Still a bit early - but i guess the snow gives it the right atmosphere
A neighbour of mine had a group of kids calling around at the start of October...apparently they were practising for Halloween!

mathepac

The wren 'boys' are traditionally a St Stephen's Day thing.

The youngsters who called to the door carol singing have been subjected to so much Coronation St / Simpsons etc. counter-culture maybe they believe that Thanksgiving Day or Guy Fawkes Night are traditional Irish celebrations and that singing pre-Christmas carols door-to-door, aka begging, is also a tradition in Ireland (or they're just chancers )

po0k

mathepac wrote: »

or they're just chancers

Yes.

Fuinseog

dollybird2 wrote: »

Just opened my door, West side of the City, to 3 girls singing Rudolph. It's November ffs. Has the snow really brought Christmas forward this much??

rudolf has nothing to do with wrenboys. title misleading here. the wren is not really hunted in galway

civis_liberalis

Fúcking chancers. I don't care what age they are.

dollybird2

Fuinseog wrote: »

rudolf has nothing to do with wrenboys. title misleading here. the wren is not really hunted in galway

I don't understand.....

Mrs OBumble

mathepac wrote: »

.... counter-culture maybe they believe that Thanksgiving Day or Guy Fawkes Night are traditional Irish celebrations and that singing pre-Christmas carols door-to-door, aka begging, is also a tradition in Ireland (or they're just chancers )

Begging is a tradition in Ireland: I can hardly step out my front door without tripping over beggars, most days of the year. (Think the "help the disabled" crew, Fairgreen clients who "need to catch the bus and I'm short a Euro", as well as the various "pleeeeze, my children" crowd.)

And carol singing is a tradition in most of the English speaking world, AFAIK.

Hell I've even combined the two myself (admittedly with a choir in a shopping centre).

I'd be a bit short of sympathy for going door to door during November, though.

Fuinseog

in the olden days, by which I mean the eighties the traveller women would knock on your own looking for a sup of milk or any spare food. they do not do that anymore.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Do you live in lower Salthill??

Fuctifino

dollybird2 wrote: »

Just opened my door, West side of the City, to 3 girls singing Rudolph. It's November ffs. Has the snow really brought Christmas forward this much??

Westside beggers? I dont believe you!

LordSutch

dollybird2 wrote: »

Wren Boys in Nov?

Maybe you mean Rent Boys

dollybird2

Hmm they were begging in Westside, don't know if they were from Westside :P

Not in Lower Salthill!

mathepac

LordSutch wrote: »

Maybe you mean Rent Boys

No they'd be in the West End