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

What a weekend! The sun was well and truly welcome! It just puts you in a good mood! Busy weekend with sports on Saturday & trying to tidy up the patio area for a birthday party yesterday. Took advantage of the sun to get a couple of coats of varnish on the patio table & chairs & the garden bench. Delighted with them now.

A fab day yesterday celebrating our smallests birthday. First time ever that we've had a bouncy castle and no rain! It was super! Can't believe that she is 4 already! Also can't believe that this time 4 years ago, it was the height of Lockdown 1 - the stress of hospital visits on my own, the dread of possibly bringing home covid, no one being able to see our new baby. Gah, it was horrible, glad to be on the other side of it now!

I was talking to a contractor in work yesterday and we were talking about working at height and get on roofs etc. One of us mentioned about decorating the outside of the house at Christmas and what it entails if you are keen to put up a good bit of stuff.

He then told me he takes about 2 weeks off work in the run up to Christmas and he goes around hanging the lights up on the outside of peoples houses as they don't have ladders or don't like climbing up them. He gets bookings for about a 100 houses and charges €60 a house.

I told him if he ever needs an Elf helper then give me a shout :)

Spotted Rudolph nose on car on the school run today. Thankfully the wee one didnt notice or spotify would have been to Christmas songs.

He does come back and take them down, can't remember if it's an all in one package fee 😄

To be fair he uses one of those booms that extend from the back of a van so he's doing the work as safely as can be expected. He goes the whole hog with lights on the outside of his own place as well.

There's Times you'd think we were the other side of summer, not just coming in to it.

I remember snow in May one year, definitely remember frost too. So not totally unprecedented.

There was quite a bit of frost on my windscreen this morning at about 7.00 and it was bloody cold where the sun wasn’t shining.

Happy Christmas for 2024 everyone! 😁🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

I got a bit of a red face at our hurling game yesterday myself. Normally am good with suncream (even had some in the bag) but it didn't feel that warm with the wind.

Genuinely got the Christmas feels yesterday morning. I was cooking in the kitchen and all of a sudden it was so dark and it was that misty sort of rain. I was thinking to myself this feels like an early morning in December and all I'm missing is the tree! Was a nice feeling but odd!

I still keep an eye out for Christmas items on sale. Saw these this morning!😊

Hard to believe we enter the traditional summer months tomorrow as weather is that bad. Dropped the kids to school earlier & it was damp & cold with a miserable grey sky… roll on June & our holidays to hopefully sunnier climes!!