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Seeing Christmas Out-of-Season 2012

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    #122
    shefellover93
    Registered Users Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭shefellover93


    Walked into the mother watching 'One True Thing' and one of the final scenes is a choir singing Silent Night (My all time favourite Christmas song!) and their version was the exact same version that's sung in my local church around Christmas (One of my all time favourite Christmas moments!)

    So, in honour of that!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY6-Gzoh9As


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    #123
    leahyl
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    Love2love wrote: »
    There was something in the paper today about a Christmas tree up in Ranelagh on top of one of the spar shops I think. Lit up too! Apparently, its a marketing thing because the weather has been so poor lately.

    They were shooting a Christmas ad!!:D

    http://www.herald.ie/news/bit-early-isnt-it-first-christmas-tree-is-put-up-3165240.html


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    #124
    washiskin
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    leahyl wrote: »
    They were shooting a Christmas ad!!:D

    http://www.herald.ie/news/bit-early-isnt-it-first-christmas-tree-is-put-up-3165240.html

    Well Feck it!!! I used to live across the road from that Spar! I used to direct proceedings from outside the pub next door at tree decoration time to make sure the lights were distributed evenly across the branches. My sittingroom window was right on the Ranelagh Road. I'm sure I looked like a right prat but I have standards to be upheld damn it ! ;););););););)


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    #125
    leahyl
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    washiskin wrote: »
    Well Feck it!!! I used to live across the road from that Spar! I used to direct proceedings from outside the pub next door at tree decoration time to make sure the lights were distributed evenly across the branches. My sittingroom window was right on the Ranelagh Road. I'm sure I looked like a right prat but I have standards to be upheld damn it ! ;););););););)

    Lol, well you need to move back there! :D


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    #126
    Posy
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    leahyl wrote: »
    They were shooting a Christmas ad!!:D

    http://www.herald.ie/news/bit-early-isnt-it-first-christmas-tree-is-put-up-3165240.html
    Aaaw, wish I'd seen that!!


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    #127
    Love2love
    Registered Users Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    Dunnes Stores have "Start saving for Christmas" posters up all over the shop this week. Plus, the Disney store on Grafton Street having a sale so I just had to start my Christmas shopping :):):) I don't normally start til the end of August. Oh and for anyone interested Smyths are also having a sale :p


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    #128
    liamo22
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    Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present the Harrods 2012 Christmas Bear! :D

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    and here is all the other 2012 stock! :D

    http://www.harrods.com/gifts/christmas-souvenirs


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    #129
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,247 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    liamo22 wrote: »
    Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present the Harrods 2012 Christmas Bear! :D

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    and here is all the other 2012 stock! :D

    http://www.harrods.com/gifts/christmas-souvenirs

    OMG so cute! I have to have him!! My friend is moving to London in September so maybe I can visit her in December.....:o


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    #130
    Posy
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    liamo22 wrote: »
    Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present the Harrods 2012 Christmas Bear! :D
    Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!! :D:D:D


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    #131
    hdowney
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    A friend of mine in England says she has seen (or heard on the radio I canni remember which) Christmas adverts already!!! And Christmas cards. Mega jelly or wha?!


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    #132
    Posy
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    No! It's far too early for that! :rolleyes:







    Naaaaah, it's never too early for Christmas of course!! :D


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    #133
    irishbarb
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    Bookmarked a load of Christmas recipes I want to try out this year today :)


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    #134
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,247 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    irishbarb wrote: »
    Bookmarked a load of Christmas recipes I want to try out this year today :)

    Love it!! :-D it's getting clooooser!


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    #135
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,542 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Just 5 months to Christmas Eve!!! :D

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    #136
    leahyl
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    Can't believe we're one month past the half way mark!! Can't wait till this forum starts picking up again! But it's actually not even that quiet at the moment!!:D


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    #137
    hdowney
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    leahyl wrote: »
    Can't believe we're one month past the half way mark!! Can't wait till this forum starts picking up again! But it's actually not even that quiet at the moment!!:D

    It isn't is it. And I am quietly hopeful (all my Christmassy cohorts cross your fingers for me). That I might be going to Paris just before Christmas :D


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    #138
    leahyl
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    hdowney wrote: »
    It isn't is it. And I am quietly hopeful (all my Christmassy cohorts cross your fingers for me). That I might be going to Paris just before Christmas :D

    Oh my god that would be brilliant! I've never been Paris but I reckon it's beautiful around Christmas time!:)


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    #139
    hdowney
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    leahyl wrote: »
    Oh my god that would be brilliant! I've never been Paris but I reckon it's beautiful around Christmas time!:)

    So do I. I was in New York after Thanksgiving a number of years ago and it was lovely :D


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    #140
    leahyl
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    hdowney wrote: »
    So do I. I was in New York after Thanksgiving a number of years ago and it was lovely :D

    Would LOVE New York too about 3 weeks before Christmas!! It's fab I'd say:). The humongous tree in Rockefeller Centre - reminds me of Home Alone 2:D


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    #141
    hdowney
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    leahyl wrote: »
    Would LOVE New York too about 3 weeks before Christmas!! It's fab I'd say:). The humongous tree in Rockefeller Centre - reminds me of Home Alone 2:D

    I was there for the tree lighting ceremony that year :D


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    #142
    EZ24GET
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    #143
    leahyl
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    I 'liked' Harrods Facebook page and they posted this morning that their Christmas World is open!! :-O


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    #144
    hdowney
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    So it is confirmed. I shall be going to Paris from the 7th to the 14th of December this year!!! So excited :D


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    #145
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,247 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    hdowney wrote: »
    So it is confirmed. I shall be going to Paris from the 7th to the 14th of December this year!!! So excited :D

    Woohoo!! Have a great time! I'm sure you'll tell us all about it anyway! ;-)

    Oh and we want pics!! :-D


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    #146
    Posy
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    hdowney wrote: »
    So it is confirmed. I shall be going to Paris from the 7th to the 14th of December this year!!! So excited :D
    Wow- I'd say it will be amazing!! I love Paris- you lucky thing!!
    And like Leahyl said- make sure you take a billion pictures!!! :D:D


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    #147
    hdowney
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    leahyl wrote: »
    Woohoo!! Have a great time! I'm sure you'll tell us all about it anyway! ;-)

    Oh and we want pics!! :-D
    Posy wrote: »
    Wow- I'd say it will be amazing!! I love Paris- you lucky thing!!
    And like Leahyl said- make sure you take a billion pictures!!! :D:D

    Lots of pics will be forthcoming. I am contemplating if I should go to Disney or not!!! I want to, and then it is expensive! My main concern is it seems that yearly they close Space Mountain around early December (sometimes for a couple days sometimes longer). I would be mega peeved if I went and Space Mountain was closed, cos when I went to Disney in Florida it was closed :(


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    #148
    Zoria
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭Zoria


    hdowney wrote: »
    So it is confirmed. I shall be going to Paris from the 7th to the 14th of December this year!!! So excited :D
    I'm so jealous! :) I've never looked forward to Christmas so far away from the actual date until I came in here :D I swear every year not to leave everything till the last minute, what actually happens is another thing!


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    #149
    hdowney
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    Zoria wrote: »
    I'm so jealous! :) I've never looked forward to Christmas so far away from the actual date until I came in here :D I swear every year not to leave everything till the last minute, what actually happens is another thing!

    Obviously present buying will not be such a big part of Christmas this year (there is only me and the mammy and I am taking her to Paris!!). But the tree, now here is a question. Growin up the mammy always put the tree up on the 14th - which is the day I arrive back :O Or do I put it up before I go, which could be a bit of an enticement - live on a main road?


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    #150
    Sar_Bear
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    How did I not find this thread before :eek:

    I'm going to Chicago for thanksgiving, so hoping for snow and trees and lights, like a christmas scene from the tele :o

    I was singing "here comes santa claus" the other day :D


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    #151
    Zoria
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭Zoria


    hdowney wrote: »
    Obviously present buying will not be such a big part of Christmas this year (there is only me and the mammy and I am taking her to Paris!!). But the tree, now here is a question. Growin up the mammy always put the tree up on the 14th - which is the day I arrive back :O Or do I put it up before I go, which could be a bit of an enticement - live on a main road?

    What you do there is, gather all the decorations from the attic or wherever you keep them, and leave them in the living room for when you get back. When you come home buy a tree, it will be much fresher and there won't be needles every where! :)


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