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Pass the mince pies- Christmas Chat Thread Part Deux

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    #8612
    Postgrad10
    Registered Users Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭Postgrad10


    I kind of lost it a bit this evening. I’ve been cocooning since the lockdown ( actually a few days before that), now that the teaching stuff is finishing up, I’m a bit lost as to what happens next. Not certain I’ll be returning to teaching at all. No exam work coming up. I’ve so much to be grateful for but I admit it’s been a tough day.


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    #8613
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Postgrad10 wrote: »
    I kind of lost it a bit this evening. I’ve been cocooning since the lockdown ( actually a few days before that), now that the teaching stuff is finishing up, I’m a bit lost as to what happens next. Not certain I’ll be returning to teaching at all. No exam work coming up. I’ve so much to be grateful for but I admit it’s been a tough day.

    Hope you feeling a bit better today PG. Uncertainly can be tough and can lead to the mind racing and thinking too many things. I know its an old adage however one day at a time.......


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    #8614
    Postgrad10
    Registered Users Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭Postgrad10


    Thanks TRS30. Better day today. Have a plan to get painting this week so rounding up bits and pieces for that. Can’t go get the paint myself though. Miss just going in and getting things myself.


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    #8615
    TRS30
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    Good to hear :)

    Just on the paint, we order some recently for the kids from Baker Ross, so might be worth looking at.

    PS. Just reread your post and you didn't specify what kind of painting, so could be any kind, D'oh! I assume you guessed my suggestion related to art paint!


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    #8616
    Postgrad10
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    Yes it’s house paint ! I love Baker Ross , I just sent off a kit of stuff from them off to my little cousins to keep them busy.


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    #8617
    freshpopcorn
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    At around midnight when I'm looking for my picture for the Christmas Countdown before they may have been a car, bus number, product,etc. Now I nearly always get a picture of a man in a suit and saying the amount of Covid-19 cases they are.


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    #8618
    TRS30
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    At around midnight when I'm looking for my picture for the Christmas Countdown before they may have been a car, bus number, product,etc. Now I nearly always get a picture of a man in a suit and saying the amount of Covid-19 cases they are.

    Unfortunately the world we live in these days :(

    Ps, lovely the variety of the countdown pictures :D is that Nicholas Cage film any good??


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    #8619
    Posy
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    Yeah, I love the variety!

    Only a week and a half and we will be into the hundreds! :D


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    #8620
    Beechwoodspark
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    Guys bear with me but I have a weird sense that the whole summer this year is going to be a bit of a write off due to the C19 restrictions. It’s almost like we are all waiting to kick off normality again

    I’m almost pining for September time to come and then October and really get into the festive spirit!


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    #8621
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,534 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    It's not just your weird sense- of course the whole summer will be a write off!


    We just have to focus on Christmas now. Which is nothing new here, to be fair. :D


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    #8622
    TRS30
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    As has been said before 2020 will be remembered as.......Christmas 2019, two months of post Christmas blues, lockdown, Christmas 2020 build up :)


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    #8623
    freshpopcorn
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    We're into the 200's!


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    #8624
    freshpopcorn
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    I was on Facebook last night and a pop up ad come up for Smyth's saying you could register to receive there big Catalogue!


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    #8625
    DvB
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I was on Facebook last night and a pop up ad come up for Smyth's saying you could register to receive there big Catalogue!

    Vaguely remember getting an email each year when the kids were ickle about the big Christmas catalogue, was always around exam time IIRC so that makes sense.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #8626
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,272 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


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    #8627
    TRS30
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    Hope everyone had a good long weekend and managed to enjoy the amazing weather. Seems like I spent most of mine running around with sun cream in my hand trying to make sure no one got burnt!

    Getting very close the one hundreds in the countdown, always a big milestone for us Christmas nerds :cool:


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    #8628
    Jude13
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    #8629
    DvB
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    TRS30 wrote: »
    Getting very close the one hundreds in the countdown, always a big milestone for us Christmas nerds :cool:

    This day week is day 199!!!

    As I've said a few times now, once we reach that date the countdown really seems to accelerate, then when we get into the double digits we're half way through September and starting to see stuff appearing in shops etc.

    I'm so looking forward to the build up this year, I just hope & pray we avoid a covid backlash that would mean further restrictions or lockdowns as I'll put my hands up & admit that I'm not sure I'd have the mental/emotional strength to go through all this again.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #8630
    Littlehorny
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    I think Christmas will be effected a bit by Covid. A few companies who have to prepare or order for Christmas in the months between March and July have been greatly affected or simply not been staffed.

    Hopefully it's just a few things that we feel a knock on from this, I saw a show once and a Christmas pudding factory make theirs in March so they can mature.

    The Christmas spirit is in us here so it's the people we spend Christmas with not the stuff that comes with it :)


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    #8631
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,165 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Littlehorny wrote: »
    I think Christmas will be effected a bit by Covid. A few companies who have to prepare or order for Christmas in the months between March and July have been greatly affected or simply not been staffed.

    I was only reading recently that a lot of the press launches for christmas in the UK start around June, and that this year they were expected to be very low key & possibly virtual affairs (normally they're big things with the media in attendance and quite secretive) so theres already an impact.

    I had a post on here recently as well about a client of ours already feeling the an impact on their christmas preparations... mad to think how far out so many things start unbeknownst to most of us.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #8632
    PaulT21
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    Littlehorny wrote: »
    I think Christmas will be effected a bit by Covid. A few companies who have to prepare or order for Christmas in the months between March and July have been greatly affected or simply not been staffed.

    Hopefully it's just a few things that we feel a knock on from this, I saw a show once and a Christmas pudding factory make theirs in March so they can mature.

    The Christmas spirit is in us here so it's the people we spend Christmas with not the stuff that comes with it :)

    Just panicked a bit there when you mentioned there might be no Christmas Puddings this year:mad:

    Thankfully I still have one in the kitchen dated to Feb 21:D

    I was going to eat it but might hoard it now!!

    You are right though, Christmas Spirit and our families will see us through this year please God, and for many more to come.


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    #8633
    Posy
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    PaulT21 wrote: »
    Thankfully I still have one in the kitchen dated to Feb 21:D
    Me too. :D


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    #8634
    DvB
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    Posy wrote: »
    Me too. :D

    Me three.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #8635
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,272 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I also think the ads are going to be cringy basically reminding us of the year!


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    #8636
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,534 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Oh nooo- I already want to forget about this year, and we're not even half way through it!


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    #8637
    Littlehorny
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    Don't a lot of Christmas TV and specials get filmed this time of year in preparation?

    I think I remember pictures got leaked last year around June of the Gavin and Stacy one off and they had fake snow floating down over Barry Island.


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    #8638
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Littlehorny wrote: »
    Don't a lot of Christmas TV and specials get filmed this time of year in preparation?

    I think I remember pictures got leaked last year around June of the Gavin and Stacy one off and they had fake snow floating down over Barry Island.

    Yea, a lot of Christmas things start happening around now in certain industries so will obviously be some impact this Christmas. DvB has touched on some personal experience he has with the food industry.

    Hopefully those that do have to start this early are able to find ways to get what they need done or are impacted as little as possible.

    I think most of us need the second half of 2020 to be a million times better than the first half!


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    #8639
    otnomart
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I also think the ads are going to be cringy basically reminding us of the year!
    I am hoping the majority of ads will stay clear of the cringy route!
    However, as Christmas for many is about family and loved ones, some ad scripts could well be about recognising health workers and remembering those who are not longer with us.
    Some weeks ago, I had thought about the nurse in the Boots ad, which I first watched in our "classic ads" thread. There might be a few ads similar to that.
    We'll see, anyway !


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    #8640
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,272 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I do think they'll work something out for food stuff at Christmas. They'd certainly be local bakeries, etc who'd be doing stuff and it's generally nicer than the shops.
    The supermarkets will also probably pull it out as well. The stock might be a bit later and the special offers mightn't be as plentiful.

    Also,
    149 days until Halloween!


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    #8641
    DvB
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »

    Also,
    149 days until Halloween!

    That's only 150 to the adverts starting on TV... yay!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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