It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

Just visited the Christmas FM website and the normal Christmas FM and Christmas Classics options are a bit too full on for the middle of May alright but the Christmas Classical option is just lovely and you could easily have it on in the background as you go about your day. It lifts the spirits 😊

It's classical and carols I'd listen to out of season, the classics one is way too full on for me outside of Christmas FM going live.

I'm not sure I could do Christmas music outside of the actual Christmas season. I like to hold off and then go hell for leather for the last 6 weeks of the year! I must remember the classical Christmas FM now though as kind of about half way through December, I get a bit fed up of the actual Christmas FM playlist. Last year, they played "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" about eleventy billion times - I've never hated a song so much 😋

Dolly Parton won that award for me last year... christ it really started to grate on me, I nearly crashed the car once on an early morning drive to work as it was played for what seemed like the umpteenth time. It finally started to get played less towards the end of the run, but had it not I genuinely think I'd have left the radio on a different channel.

Why certain songs get so much airtime each year is beyond me, its like they randomly pick some song & decide to play it to death 😁

We're into the 220's!

Also, providing everything goes according to plan. It's 100 days to the Brown Thomas Christmas Shop!

Oh no I'll be singing that in my head now for days! I drive my wife mad singing it for days whenever it gets into my head 😂

I think I had two days WFH over the entire pandemic. My office is within a 15-20 min commute and many people worked from home so it was nice an quiet.

I am holding off the Christmas tunes till post summer. I will start with the classical and work my way up to the normal. I have to agree with the lack of variety but understand that when people donate they want to hear a song.

My 2.5 year old was belting out the hippo song for months, she's the cutest kid in the world (to us) but there came a point where I wanted to show her some youtube (nature is metal) videos of what a real hippo is like just to stop the singing.

Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't been on here much lately. No reason really other than life being really busy (in both good and bad ways). Not feeling very festive just now but I'm sure I'll get back to "normal" soon 😉

I note that the vast majority of regulars appear to be feeling far from festive at the moment, which realistically is what should be the case given its May 🤣 but has anyone had any hankerings towards christmas or he build up yet?

I suspect with the last 2 years being what they were with restrictions etc the year became more focused as there was such uncertainty around so many things, but with life more or less returning to normal (on speed in my case!!) I suspect Christmas and the feelings associated with it (including hankerings) will be condensed back into a more traditional timeframe.

Though I did order my first Christmas present yesterday, which is the same week I ordered my first one last year too, so that's one tradition I've upheld anyway 😉

Just half watched a Christmas episode of Married with Children about an hour ago, that show would not get made today 😉

Even though we are all not feeling all Christmassy at the moment there is one thing that I noticed with all people that love Christmas is that they have a cheery outlook on life and I think we all call in here all year round for the positivity and friendliness that the Christmas forum gives us.

I'd rather be a Elf than a Bah Humbug anytime!