Christmas Out of Season 2020

DvB wrote: »

Love actually on tonight at 9pm on comedy central.

Was on again last night. Managed to resist the temptation though

Littlehorny wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, what story is everyone's favorite story in Love Actually?
Mine is Colin Firth and the Portugese maid

Also two Christmas episodes on telly last night. At about 6pm there was a Christmas edition of something called "Save Money, Eat Well"? The chef had to make Christmas dinner for a family of 8 for less than a fiver a head.
At 10pm on E4 , the Christmas edition of The Inbetweeners was on.

Two totally different types of shows I'll grant you.

always disliked the Liam Neeson one, and the one with yer man heading to Milwaukee and pulling every c list celeb with a pulse.

Dont like the kiera Knightley one either. That whole video thing and banoffi pie and the craic with the cards... nah.

Love the Bill Nighy (billy mac) one, and the colin Firth one. And surely everyone likes the high grant one? The emma Thompson and laura linney ones I find sad but add a good balance.

Was down doing the weekly grocery shop on Friday evening & joined the queue outside dunnes stores a far bit away from the entrance, the queue moved quickly enough though so no real trouble, thing was I was stopped for a bit outside CAssidy Travel and they had a poster in their window or trips to Lapland to see Santa for Christmas 2020... I thought to myself, whoa thats early, then copped, its May, and with these trips far from cheap you'd need to be planning that a few months in advance... still, was nice to see a christmas poster already!

Deleted User wrote: »

...Did you get them? I'd be tempted myself but am only allowed window shop this week.

No I decided I had better stick to getting some clothes for now that might actually fit me...I'll defo revisit them closer to Christmas!

Think I'm gonna listen to some Christmas tunes tonight on spotify, to remind me of days gone by and of hopefully better days to come and an amazing Christmas 2020

Needed something fluffy to watch. Found I'd recorded RTE's Christmas panto as my neighbour's little girl was in it and some of my friends. So leaving aside that it's a Tuesday in June, lunchtime and I'm 43 I've put it on. Even leaving the ads play

On that note, The Christmas song (sang by Nat King Cole) was written by Mel Torme in the middle of a blazing hot summer.

From wikipedia:

According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to "stay cool by thinking cool", the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born.[1] "I saw a spiral pad on his (Wells's) piano with four lines written in pencil", Tormé recalled. "They started, 'Chestnuts roasting..., Jack Frost nipping..., Yuletide carols..., Folks dressed up like Eskimos.' Bob didn't think he was writing a song lyric. He said he thought if he could immerse himself in winter he could cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I wrote all the music and some of the lyrics."

Mad to think a song so identifiable with winter & christmas was conceived in the middle of summer, so its not just us here that think about Christmas all year round

Was doing my ironing yesterday and had the TV on in the background, ended up watching an only fools and horses Christmas special on gold, to be fair there's one on every other weekend but this was one of the specials actually set at Christmas with Slades merry Christmas being belted out.

I see movies 24 (sky channels 325 & 326) switches to Christmas in July mode on July 1st...

Loughc wrote: »

It’s most likely just for the month for Christmas in July.

To be fair unlikely they'd be changing over to christmas for 6 months of the year, that would be Christmas creep on steroids!!:D

To be fair i'm not a fan of the christmas movie channels, most of the films are really not that good, the Mrs watches the odd one, though I prefer to just repeat watch the old faithful classics myself.