Seeing Christmas Out Of Season 2016

Decided to ad my Christmas countdowner on here.
This might be a long post but I've a countdown for Christmas 2016. I generally pick events during the year. Some I'll be looking forward to others I won't. You can add in tour own Birthday's, holiday, etc.(some dates are approx)
Late Late Show returns after Christmas break.
Argos Spring/Summer catalogue.
Spring.
Six Nations.
Super Bowl.
Pancake Tuesday.
Ash Wednesday. (Lent begins)
St Valentine's day.
Eurovision song picked.
General Election.
Leap year.
Mothers day.
Cheltenham.
St Patricks day.
Holy Thursday.
Good Friday.
Summer Time begins.
Easter Sunday.
(Bank Holiday weekend)Easter Rising.
Britain's got talent auditions.
Grand National.
Start of Summer
May Bank Holiday.
Eurovision Week.
Main GAA season starts.
FA cup final.
Britain's got talent final week.
June Bank holiday.
Euros 2016.Fathers Day.
Longest day of the year.
Wimbledon.
Schools are closed for holidays.
Tour De France.
Argos Autumn/Winter Catalogue.
Autumn.
August Bank holiday.
Summer Olympics.
Rose of Tralee.
Brown Thomas Christmas Shop.
Schools return.
X factor starts (maybe)September.
Late late show starts.
Tins of sweets out.
All Ireland football and hurling finals.
100 days to go.
Ploughing championships.
Smyths Catalogue.
October(you can kind of mention Christmas)
Boots catalogue.
Shops begin to get busy and stocked up.
Clocks go back.
Christmas cake & pudding baking.
Halloween.
November.
You can talk about ChristmasIt's Winter.
Christmas ads begin.
The John lewis ad.
Ice skating and shopping centres and towns begin to light up.
Santa grottos start to open.
Late Late Toy Show.
Advent.
Decorations start to go up.
December 1st.
Advent calendars.
Shops being to get stocked up with fresh Christmas stock.(party food, etc)
Late night opening.
Christmas cards begin to arrive.
Christmas party season.
Christmas week.
Food preparation.
Several grocery Shopping trips.
Holidays.
Presents wrapped.
Turkey and ham bought.
Christmas Eve.
Last minute shopping and preparations.
Visit friends/family with presents.
Mass.
Visit local pub.
Go home and relax.
It's Christmas day 2016.

Hi Christmas People!
It's been a while since I posted. Lovely to see this thread. Think it was me who set the original up a few moons ago!
Well yesterday I was at an event in a castle and they still had all their Christmas trees up! It was quite magical after sunset!
And then last night Elf was on one of the movie channels!
I still have my decorations up. I didn't put up much this year but the lights were still on in the window the other night.
I'd like to think it made some people smile as they drove/walked past.

Loughc wrote: »

Hey Milli Milli!!

It was indeed you who set up the thread back in 2012. I even used some of your opening post in my opening post as a homage\throwback to the original thread.

If I had seen the lights in the window of your house I would have seen beaming from ear to ear. I love seeing Christmas lights on display especially out of season!

Thanks LoughC! That's very sweet!
Yes I hoped some people smiled!

I have an internal window between my living room & kitchen and when I moved in in 2014 I put lights around it for Christmas 2014. I decided to leave them up all year as it's very cosy.
So they are staying up again this year. I'm also going to leave up some wooden stars as they're not too Christmassy.

I put up star lights in my bedroom for Christmas and I'm going to design something so I can leave them up - something like a grown-up canopy over my bed. Don't want to make it like a teenagers room!

Do you know that ChristmasFM are still playing Christmas songs?

Christmas 2015 was the first time I listened to it as their signal doesn't cover my area, so I downloaded the app. Before the actual Christmas season they just played songs, then when Christmas season started they had DJs.
No offence to the DJs but I preferred it beforehand when it was uninterrupted Christmas music.

So what are you waiting for? I'm listening to it as we speak!!

Home Alone is on E4 and E4+1 at the moment.

Most of our decorations got put away last night the house looks bare, needs a good clean but that will have to wait till I'm back on my feet, the longest ever our decorations have been up,

Passed by apartments near where i live and on the top floor i saw a lit Christmas tree in the window, will keep an eye out for it now and see how long it is left up.