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

@Cork Lass best of luck with the knee surgery!

The charter flight is from Muscat and for people in transit, tourists stuck here. Then it will be people with medical issues, pregnancy, and women. I may need to identify!

@freshpopcorn give my best to your sis, and if for some reason Dubai becomes safer than Abu Dhabi please reach out to me.

Anyway, that's for letting me vent but lets get back on about Chrimbo!

When did it become a thing here? We used to sneer at the Brits doing the dress up for it.

It's been going on since at least 2018 when Elf #1 was in junior infants. We're past it now for her but Elf #2 and her friends were going in as the Seven Dwarves today. 10.30pm last night using hobby glue, cotton buds, card and pipe cleaners to make a beard. That was after she came in to me at 7.30 and said "I suppose we're not going to Liffey Valley to look for a top for the costume"

I exploded

I actually would have loved a World Book Day when I was in school. My father is a bookworm and very smartly got me into reading when I was about 4/5, which I continue to enjoy to this day. We did the Readathon in primary school and I always remember the thrill of reading the books to get the prize at the end, never did anything afterwards in secondary, although my school did have a library that I used to borrow books from, my first introduction to Christopher Pike and Point Horror books thanks to that.

Loved the Point Horror books too. Plus I read all the Babysitters Club, the Anastasia series and Sweet Valley books once I hit secondary school age.

Yes, Sweet Valley Twins/High & Babysitters Club started coming out as I was finishing primary school and by coincidence I read one of the Sweet Valley Books as part of the Readathon and I just had a flashback there reporting on it back to my teacher when I finished. Roald Dahl, Secret Seven, Mallory Towers, Famous Five also.

When I started out reading it was all those little Puddle Lane/Penguin books. When my parents would do the food shop on a Friday evening, I was allowed pick out a new book and those were the ones I'd get, they were only about 15p at the time so I'd get that instead of pocket money, absolute highlight of my week getting to pick out a new book.

Comics such as Beano, Desperate Dan also have to get a mention & as a teenager I’d get Big, MG, Smash Hits, Teen Machine & 16 when I was getting pocket money.

Is that the kids section that used to come with the Irish Times? I looked it up, and apparantly they issued a special one off last week of it.

Sunday Times. They do a special every time HarperCollins have a kids book to push, same owners.

We used to get a £1 book token on World Book Day, could be used to get one specific £1 book free or off anything that cost more than a fiver I think