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

Congratulations! You'll definitely be able to find a spot for your tree!

Best of luck antimatterx!! I really hope you find somewhere to call your own. It took me long enough but I got there in the end. Now to find a man 😂

Congratulations on the new house @leahyl

You'll squeeze one in some how.

We're also into the 190's.

We'll be seeing stuff appearing in the shops in this 100's.

We'll be in double figures before we can blink!!

Congratulations @leahyl on your new home, love to here of people getting their own little corner of the world. Won't be long till all the Christmas bits start appearing in the shop.

We made our last mortgage repayment on the house last week so keep the faith, it feels like the mortgage will never end, but it does.

Dad came home from hospital yesterday and he's doing really well, he was 77 yesterday and still fighting fit!

We've had the heating on for a while every evening since Saturday. I'm half thinking of putting up a couple of decorations.

@BK5 great to hear that your Dad is out!

@freshpopcorn preach! One year we had both sets of grandparents go with us to a Santa thing. It was in Bunratty castle, madness, good pics though.

On the Santa thing we are flirting, looking down the back of the sofa, with going to Finland for Santa this year. I know a few of you elves have been. We are thinking of staying in a ski resort (Ounasvaara Ski Resort) about 10 mins away from Santa's village and doing a day trip to Santa and then ski the other days. Any pointers greatly appreciated.

Morning everyone, lousy weather yesterday but that's been the story of 2026 so far. Hopefully we see an improvement soon.

Have a work do later on so looking forward to that, be good to unwind and have a laugh.

Finally getting a chance to properly check in again here. I've been dipping in and out but work has been pretty crazy this year and I try not to be online in the evenings. Although those addictive Facebook reels keeping reeling me in. Doing exactly what they're supposed to do I suppose!

It's very hard to believe that we're nearly half way through the year. With the constant rain for the first four months of the year, I thought it'd go by at a slower pace this year, but I think that's less and less likely the older we get. Nice, sunny and dry, but windy out there at the moment, but I'll take that over yesterday's grey skies any day.

We moved office earlier in the year and our new one isn't too far from St. Patrick's cathedral. One of my first thoughts was that I am definitely going to one of their Christmas concerts this year! Been on the bucket list for a while, but I've no excuse now. I'll have to keep an eye out for when the tickets go on sale.

It's so nice to see so many posts in here when I do get a chance to log on. Hopefully I'll be able to keep adding to them.