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

Don't forget Christmas in July!!! 😀

All kidding aside, I'll be sticking with September as the first month with Christmas build up vibes. July & August are just too soon for me to consider them as even remotely part of the extended build up. We'd usually start our prep towards the mid/end of september (after the kids go back to school) with gifts etc being started then for the kids.

Ditto! We are on a countdown already for our holidays & it's not until July!

The one suggestion i'd make is quality over quantity. When I first moved out I had nothing & ended up trying to do too much too soon, with the result I ended up binning a lot of cheap crap that aged poorly. I restarted & bought more expensive & better quality bits and just added to them over the years, and that definitely looks better IMO.

No walk for myself and the doggy this evening 😔

On the plus side, it's my sister's birthday tomorrow so we've decided to go out for breakfast just us and my little girl AND dinner with the whole family tomorrow...sure what else would you be doing in this weather 😆

Thanks everyone for the tips! Much appreciated! It's just the outdoors stuff that'll be new to us this year. We have been renting for about ten years and have a very solid indoors decorations layout. Obviously now we have more options it will be exciting, the house we were renting was small. This house is a normal sized house so can't wait to have a 7ft tree instead of a 6ft one and not be squashed away in the corner!

So, into the 250's on the countdown today, so nearly half way through the 200's… even with the miserable weather the year is moving at a fair old lick so far.

Was at training last night with the team at the slightly earlier timeslot of 6-7pm and with it being bright & clear it was a great reminder of what the summer evenings can be like, looking forward now to the longer evenings & it being bright until after 10pm, love that time of year, just hope the weather plays ball at some stage and we dont have another miserable summer like last year.

Just noticed that that the Christmasbuzz.uk website is gone. What with the ChristmasUK website disapearing last year too that's 2 of the better Christmas build up themed sites gone which is a shame. Very little out there now for the 2024 build up.

I would never have thought of it either but honestly, it's a pain putting the baubles on it. I've contemplated just putting lights on it and leaving it at that 😂 We also only have it about 8 years so I can't justify a new one yet, it has held up well to be fair.

I think that @Loughc also has the Nebraska.

It's bizarrely warm out there today, bright but no sunshine, but more importantly, no rain so far today! I'm pretty sure it's on the way, but for now, I will live in ignorant bliss until it arrives. My grass needs to be cut again, so hopefully there is a decent spell of dry weather in the not too distant future.

Just back from Shannon, absolutely bucketed down all the way home, awful driving conditions. Thankfully stopped now.

Car said 19 degrees at one point too!

I'm hoping it stays dry enough for me to get mine cut tomorrow. My back garden is NE facing, so it takes a while for it to dry out. There's not great drainage either, so the ground feels like a swamp with all the rain!

I've never been to the candlelight concerts, I only found out about them earlier this year, but I love the idea of them. With the atmosphere at something like that, it should be enjoyable even when you don't know all the songs. Enjoy!

I got the grass cut!, there was a time where I wouldn't come on a forum just to announce this but it feels such a achievement.

Won't be long until the costumes are out!

Tell you what, bloody chilly this morning. may have been a little premature turning off the central heating... brrr

At least it's looking like brightening up a little later in the week ( if you can believe a forecast these days)

In Arklow at the moment on site and it's clear and sunny, but breezy and very cold.

Nice bright day here but cold! Hard to believe it's the May Bank Holiday in two weeks!