Christmas Retro

Collecting a lot of jar tops, old Christmas cards and Christmassy pictures from magazines. Pictures cut out in circles to fit the lids and pasted inside. Strings of wool to hang on tree. Beautiful.

Loving the foil decorations.

Lemons dropped a few of my favorites such as the coconut macaroon and one of the lemon ones.

They have iced caramels in tesco.

I saw a packet of Lemons Seasons Greetings opened tonight. There all in separate bags.

An old and battered tin I found a few years ago!

Remember those type of visits from extended family. Or sometimes we’d go to them. Always made Christmas memorable. Then older cousins grew up & stopped coming. Elderly relatives passed on….

On a tangent, every October bank holiday weekend my next door neighbour would get a visit from his two sisters (both nuns). On the Monday the two of them would always call to our house & have tea & cake with my mother. Happened every year without fail all through the 1970s & 1980s.

Ah guys, I remember the Seasons Greetings well but absolutely hated the vile things!! 🤣

Nothing quite like the crushing disappointment of a relative visiting at Christmas and giving us a box of those 🫣

Came across this on adverts.ie €10

I'm 40's but don't recall them being in a brown box, wonder what year its from.

Lorna Doone on Christmas Eve... baffling scheduling there from the BBC. Nothing festive about it. Not even in the ghost story for Christmas strand. Sort of like Poldark but with more people on the receiving ends of swords and muskets.

Any of RTE listing, we only had the 2 channels 😅

Those TV guides take me back to my childhood. My father would highlight lots of programs and the funny thing was plenty were on at similar times on different channels. Oh the good old days of deciding what to watch on the 6 channels. Then came the video recorder and that got plenty of use and helped with the dilemma. Trying to find the program on the blank tapes was the fun part 😂.

Nowadays you just press record on multiple channels and watch when you want on Sky box, the kids nowadays have it so easy 😆.

And skipping ahead for clashes to see if there's a repeat in a different slot or airing on a different channel :)