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Christmas Out of Season 2021

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  • #152
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Only fools and horses Christmas special 'if they could see us now' on gold at 5pm today.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #153
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Seeing a fair few references to christmas in June at the moment. I know ALDI are pushing it too, saw the adverts in their latest leaflet drop out our way. Mince pies back on sale!!! (though I still have 18 of them in the freezer anyway)
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #154
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    Seeing a fair few references to christmas in June at the moment. I know ALDI are pushing it too, saw the adverts in their latest leaflet drop out our way. Mince pies back on sale!!! (though I still have 18 of them in the freezer anyway)

    Hopefully by June will be hot and sunny and not Christmasy at all!


  • #155
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Hopefully by June will be hot and sunny and not Christmasy at all!

    Agree. Already getting a bit frustrated by the mixed weather. Hoping by the June b/h weekend we're in full BBQ season, shorts, shades & cooled bottles of beer!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #156
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    DvB wrote: »
    Agree. Already getting a bit frustrated by the mixed weather. Hoping by the June b/h weekend we're in full BBQ season, shorts, shades & cooled bottles of beer!

    Weather has been all over the place lately. Wind, rain, hail and sun and that’s just all in one day.


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  • #157
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    DvB wrote: »
    Seeing a fair few references to christmas in June at the moment. I know ALDI are pushing it too, saw the adverts in their latest leaflet drop out our way. Mince pies back on sale!!! (though I still have 18 of them in the freezer anyway)



    I looked this up yesterday and with the rollout of vaccinations in the UK, I think this Aldi promotion is limited to over there.
    Hope I'm wrong, I've already told everyone in my family about this when I read your post.


  • #158
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Littlehorny wrote: »
    I looked this up yesterday and with the rollout of vaccinations in the UK, I think this Aldi promotion is limited to over there.
    Hope I'm wrong, I've already told everyone in my family about this when I read your post.

    Really? Have seen it appear on my social media accounts so assumed it was ourselves also, was convinced it was referenced in a leaflet drop too... though my scrambled memory may be letting me down here. Apologies if so.

    TBH I find the whole christmas in June/July thing a bit of a dismissible fad anyway.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #159
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    DvB wrote: »
    Really? Have seen it appear on my social media accounts so assumed it was ourselves also, was convinced it was referenced in a leaflet drop too... though my scrambled memory may be letting me down here. Apologies if so.

    TBH I find the whole christmas in June/July thing a bit of a dismissible fad anyway.





    Your probably right, I only read one news article about it and it said Aldi UK were doing Christmas in June , I hope they do it over here, if only to annoy the Bah Humbuggers! :)


  • #160
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    It'll be Christmas in June for us here anyway. :pac:


  • #161
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,174 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Should we set up a petition to get Aldi to do Christmas in June here to?


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  • #162
    DvB
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    TOTP Christmas 1990 special on bbc4 now!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #163
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    DvB wrote: »
    TOTP Christmas 1990 special on bbc4 now!

    Done my Leaving that year so practically giving my age away there :)

    What was number 1?


  • #164
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Littlehorny wrote: »
    Done my Leaving that year so practically giving my age away there :)

    What was number 1?

    Cliff Richard, Saviours Day.

    BTW, did my LC just a year ahead of you, in 89.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #165
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    DvB wrote: »
    Cliff Richard, Saviours Day.

    BTW, did my LC just a year ahead of you, in 89.

    No way. The 80s was the best decade to grow up in my opinion.
    Not a big fan of the song I have to say. :p


  • #166
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    The eighties, what a great decade for music! :D


    I just seen a car driving by with the boot open, reminded me of seeing people drive past after buying Christmas trees. :)


  • #167
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Jolly boys outing on gold at the moment... one of the best OFAH Christmas specials (not set at Christmas mind)
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #168
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Rodney come home, the 1990 OFAH Christmas special on at 1pm too.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #169
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Organised my first christmas present for 2021... picked this up for the kids who loved the forst 2 christmasaurus books.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmasaurus-Naughty-List-Tom-Fletcher-ebook/dp/B0914N6TVZ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Christmasaurus+and+the+Naughty+List&qid=1621261774&sr=8-1
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #170
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Only seen a bit of it before but just watched all of Last Christmas on Sky Movies with Emilia Clarke in it.
    Didn't get great reviews but I really enjoyed it, loved all the George Michael songs in it as well.


  • #171
    Caranica
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    Bought warm cinnamon zoflora in Mr Price at the weekend, they had two Christmas scents. Looking forward to the place smelling like Christmas


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  • #172
    DvB
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    As I mentioned in the weight loss/fitness thread, we had a zoom music bingo charity night last night, hosted by gifting Garvan Rigby from Christmas FM, everytime he was talking I couldn't help but think of Christmas FM. Just 6 months until that's back now.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #173
    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,000 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Babysitting my 3 year old niece and she's insisted on a Peppa Pig Christmas selection on YouTube. I've found the current episode intrinsically flawed. The kids posting letters to Santa on Christmas Eve? Buying the tree on Christmas Eve? Wrong wrong wrong :D


  • #174
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Bloody Peppa. She's a right dose. :p


  • #175
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Home alone 2 on film 4 atm.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #176
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I seen a car with reindeer antlers and the red nose still proudly going on my way home from the park today.


  • #177
    otnomart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Loughc wrote: »
    I seen a car with reindeer antlers and the red nose still proudly going on my way home from the park today.


    And a Christmas Forum sticker on the boot ?


  • #178
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Caranica wrote: »
    Babysitting my 3 year old niece and she's insisted on a Peppa Pig Christmas selection on YouTube. I've found the current episode intrinsically flawed. The kids posting letters to Santa on Christmas Eve? Buying the tree on Christmas Eve? Wrong wrong wrong :D

    My similar critique fell on deaf ears!
    Posy wrote: »
    Bloody Peppa. She's a right dose. :p

    My wife is trying to ban her as she is so cheeky!
    otnomart wrote: »
    And a Christmas Forum sticker on the boot ?

    A what now?? This sounds like something I need!!


  • #179
    CheerLouth
    Registered Users Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    TRS30 wrote: »
    My wife is trying to ban her as she is so cheeky!

    We had a few glorious Peppa free months, now our 4 year old has rediscovered a gra for her...I had forgotten how utterly annoying she is and mean...seriously, I'm like to the kids "be nice to other people, think about their feelings"...Peppa Pig "Daddy Pig has a fat tummy"...honestly! :eek:


  • #180
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    CheerLouth wrote: »
    We had a few glorious Peppa free months, now our 4 year old has rediscovered a gra for her...I had forgotten how utterly annoying she is and mean...seriously, I'm like to the kids "be nice to other people, think about their feelings"...Peppa Pig "Daddy Pig has a fat tummy"...honestly! :eek:

    Remember though, it is 'pure muscle' :rolleyes:


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  • #181
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    WFH after a silly o'clock early start this morning (had to be on a site at 6.30am) so am needing plenty of caffeine to keep the motivation levels where they need to be, so decided to stick Christmas FM classical & Carols on for a bit... may have beena mistake s its quite relaxing and I could easily have a nap here now.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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