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Pass the mince pies- Christmas Chat Thread Part Deux

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    I only discovered the christmas forum by chance on the main home page by seeing the christmas movies thread back around 2015.

    Only had the odd early post (1 per year or so), but lurked alot, it seemed like everyone was familiar with one another so wasnt sure if 'newbies' would be welcomed at the time (how wrong I was, easily the best forum for its welcoming nature)

    Started posting regularly from about the build up to christmas 2016 or so. Still only have about 600 posts in here, but working on it!!:)
    chuckles30 wrote: »
    Same as DvB, I was lurking for a long time as again everyone seemed to know each other.....but then I realised it's the friendliest forum I have ever come across....must be the Christmas cheer :)

    Was exactly the same. Kicking myself now that I didn't join in sooner. Is definitely my happy place on the 'net.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,184 ✭✭✭kitten_k


    Just checked and I first posted here on 6 December 2012 and have 956 posts in the Christmas forum! My next nearest forum has 566 posts.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    kitten_k wrote: »
    Just checked and I first posted here on 6 December 2012 and have 956 posts in the Christmas forum! My next nearest forum has 566 posts.

    First post 11.5 months ago and only 133 post (134 now :))

    I have a lot of catching up to do :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    Is everyone checking when they started posting in here? :P

    I started in the run up to Christmas 2017 but was a lurker before! Most of my posts are in here - over 500! Yikes!


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    23rd November 2012 was my very first post and I have made 360 posts in total here!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    I am still a rookie: first post in Dec 2015 and post count still under 200 !
    Have also lurked for a while before picking up the courage.
    Love the warm (all year round) atmosphere here.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    This is my 2,710th post here. :D

    I think Loughc has way more than anyone though! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,810 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    We're into the 220's!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    General theme seems that a lot of people were lurkers before taking the plunge and start posting.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Posy wrote: »
    This is my 2,710th post here. :D

    I think Loughc has way more than anyone though! :pac:

    Thats impressive!! But also a challenge ;)
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,184 ✭✭✭kitten_k


    Posy wrote: »
    This is my 2,710th post here. :D

    I think Loughc has way more than anyone though! :pac:

    Wow! Just checked Loughc's and he has 4,951!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    kitten_k wrote: »
    Wow! Just checked Loughc's and he has 4,951!

    Its official, LoughC is MR CHRISTMAS!!!

    Dare i say it, could he be santa? :D
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    Its official, LoughC is MR CHRISTMAS!!!

    Dare i say it, could he be santa? :D

    Seconded.

    I'll be as old as Santa by the time I reach that number of posts!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭chuckles30


    I have 261 posts in the Christmas forums - higher than all the others - first posted in Nov 2016


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    I have a serious craving for the Baileys fudge at the moment. Roll on seven months time


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Jude13 wrote: »
    I have a serious craving for the Baileys fudge at the moment. Roll on seven months time

    Anything Baileys & I'm in!! Love the stuff.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Christmas really is the season to Baileys. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    Anything Baileys & I'm in!! Love the stuff.

    Baileys and ice is the one alcoholic drink I can have no mater how drunk/hung-over I am.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Baileys and ice is the one alcoholic drink I can have no mater how drunk/hung-over I am.

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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,065 ✭✭✭DenMan


    Last night's episode of Proven Innocent was set at Christmas time. I saw a lovely big tree and socks above a fire. It was brilliant! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭chuckles30


    Posy wrote: »
    Christmas really is the season to Baileys. :D

    Unless it's the new Strawberry & Cream one - nice chilled glass of that sitting out in a sunny garden......mmmmm. It goes down way too easy :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    chuckles30 wrote: »
    Unless it's the new Strawberry & Cream one - nice chilled glass of that sitting out in a sunny garden......mmmmm. It goes down way too easy :D:D

    Havent tried that one yet, must get a small bottle & give it a try.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭ciara007


    Delighted with myself I picked up my nephews xmas gift today a big paw patrol art set in lidl. I also treated myself to one of the irish chandlers Irish Christmas candles and omg it smells divine just like plum pudding. I also found this on you tube its a tutorial on xmas breakfast and it is so seasonal you can see the snow falling in the background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5fqzH4eIvs&t=50s


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Nice work!! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,810 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I saw a Christmas tree this evening!(Well it was one).
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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Brilliant! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Just bought my flight home for Christmas !
    Earlier than ever ! Beat my own record from last year, when I bought it in mid July.

    I can now totally relax about it for the Summer.
    Maybe as a next project I will start looking at a Christmas market break for end Nov - early Dec.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Car99


    In one word what is Christmas?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    When are you flying in? I am usually too early to get all the Christmas decs and greetings at the airport.

    Like the pic above I saw a Christmas tree for bin collection today, nearly crashed. If I wasn't in a rush to work I would have stopped and taken a pic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    The Fri before the big day; looking forward to the food shopping with my family !

    On another note: can not believe that May is already 3/5 gone.
    It is a month I love and it is going way too fast for my liking !


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    Awesome, it will be all christmasy for you. I am going to try and watch a few christmas movies on the plane this year on the way home.

    Its my OH b-day this weekend so we are going away for a the weekend, then May is nearly over. There is a halfway to Christmas brunch next month here that I am tempted with.


  • Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭ciara007


    Just in work and dreaming of my Christmas Tree as you do. When I found this https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/interiors/the-farms-that-let-you-choose-and-cut-your-own-christmas-tree-1.3712021 how amazing is this!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    ciara007 wrote: »
    Just in work and dreaming of my Christmas Tree as you do. When I found this https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/interiors/the-farms-that-let-you-choose-and-cut-your-own-christmas-tree-1.3712021 how amazing is this!!!


    Thats what we do every year, last year was particularly busy,had to wait a good while for our tree to be cut down but worth it in the end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,810 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    We're into the 210's!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Interesting stuff, Ciara. :)
    Christmas trees are grown from seed in little pots for the first year after which they are planted in an outdoor nursery for another two years. Then, they are moved to their permanent plot where they continue to grow for another four to seven years.
    It's such a long process for such a short time over Christmas!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭Squatter


    So then, if mince pies are that delicious, then how come they're only available around Christmas time?

    Surely commercial logic would dictate that they'd be available all year round, if people really liked them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Squatter wrote: »
    So then, if mince pies are that delicious, then how come they're only available around Christmas time?

    Surely commercial logic would dictate that they'd be available all year round, if people really liked them.

    Novelty factor, kinda like Easter Eggs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,810 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Squatter wrote: »
    So then, if mince pies are that delicious, then how come they're only available around Christmas time?

    Surely commercial logic would dictate that they'd be available all year round, if people really liked them.

    It's a seasonal item.
    Christmas puddings/cakes/mince pies/certain chocolates are associated with Christmas.
    Easter eggs = Easter.
    Certain clothes for certain seasons.
    Barbecue meats/etc are only really sold in the Summer months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,810 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I post in the Bargain Alerts forum about the Lidl Super Savers weekend offers. I can't believe I've just posted the offers for the first weekend in June!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    I post in the Bargain Alerts forum about the Lidl Super Savers weekend offers. I can't believe I've just posted the offers for the first weekend in June!

    The year is going so fast its scary, had the kids communion last weekend, we have our holiday in 6 weeks, then its 6 weeks of summer camp for them & then back to school & our countdown/prep starts... I know I must say this every year but this year is moving at a scary pace.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    DvB wrote: »
    The year is going so fast its scary, had the kids communion last weekend, we have our holiday in 6 weeks, then its 6 weeks of summer camp for them & then back to school & our countdown/prep starts... I know I must say this every year but this year is moving at a scary pace.

    Stop! It's flying past! I've just sent our little girl into playschool all dolled up for her graduation photos! And I was just thinking earlier how quickly it's flown since September! When she starts school, I feel like the year will go even more quickly! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Dalomanakora


    31 weeks left til the big day ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    CheerLouth wrote: »
    Stop! It's flying past! I've just sent our little girl into playschool all dolled up for her graduation photos! And I was just thinking earlier how quickly it's flown since September! When she starts school, I feel like the year will go even more quickly! :eek:

    Since ours started school, (4 years ago now:eek:) we've been saying that the way the year is broken up into term sized chunks it makes the year go a lot quicker. Playschool/montessori isnt broken up in anything like the same way so it appeared longer, but the school year makes it seem such a short amount of time.

    Still convinced once you have kids the years fly by anyway... watching them grow so fast makes you want life to slow right down, instead it gets quicker & quicker:(
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    Still convinced once you have kids the years fly by anyway... watching them grow so fats makes you want life to slow right down, instead it gets quicker & quicker:(

    Agree!

    Funny how two letters in the wrong order can change a whole sentence :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    otnomart wrote: »
    Just bought my flight home for Christmas !
    Earlier than ever ! Beat my own record from last year, when I bought it in mid July.

    I can now totally relax about it for the Summer.
    Maybe as a next project I will start looking at a Christmas market break for end Nov - early Dec.

    Inspired me to have a lil at options for a Christmas market break.
    Find flights to cologne for 4 €323 all in, and accommodation on Airbnb for <400 for A3 might trip.

    So tempted...
    Will have to reassess the finances after our family holiday in June.
    Anybody have experience of these types with small kids (3&5), is or fun and magical, or just a lot of hassle where they barely get it?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,184 ✭✭✭kitten_k




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,810 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Father's Day at Dealz!
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,810 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    10 days until June Bank Holiday Monday.
    23 days until Father's Day.
    33 days until Rudolph Day/Half way point.
    64 days until Argos Autumn/Winter Catalogue.
    70 days until August Bank Holiday Monday.
    90 days until Brown Thomas Christmas Shop.
    94 days until Rose of Tralee.
    115 days until 100 days to go.
    156 days until Clocks go back.
    160 days until Halloween.
    189 days until Black Friday/Late Late Toy Show November 29th.
    191 days until December 1st.
    215 days until Christmas.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    10 days until June Bank Holiday Monday.
    23 days until Father's Day.
    33 days until Rudolph Day/Half way point.
    64 days until Argos Autumn/Winter Catalogue.
    70 days until August Bank Holiday Monday.
    90 days until Brown Thomas Christmas Shop.
    94 days until Rose of Tralee.
    115 days until 100 days to go.
    156 days until Clocks go back.
    160 days until Halloween.
    189 days until Black Friday/Late Late Toy Show November 29th.
    191 days until December 1st.
    215 days until Christmas.

    When you see it like that doesn't seem like very far away at all :eek:

    Better starting getting organised!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    I remember discussing this with Loughc a year or so ago & saying that once we get into the 100's on the countdown the year really seems to pick up pace, I always thought the first 3 months of the year drag terribly but the rest just fly by, this year will be no different, its already going so fast.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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