The 'C' word, and all associated items, should be banned until the start of December - at the earliest.
The question is, if you want your decorations to go up on the 1st are shops allowed to sell decorations in advance so you're ready to go? I like my lights to go up on the first weekend in december but the decorations go up gradually after that. Advent calendars go up on the 30th of November obviously and then I can start my traditional moaning that my wife hasn't made me a beer advent calendar again.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Over the years, Christmas tat is slowly invading Spain, spreading like an unwelcome disease. At least we donāt have bonfire night, but fireworks are still hugely popular for every conceivable saints day and fiesta.Ā
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
My moan is people moaning about Christmas. If folk want to put up their decorations on November 4th what harm does it do to anyone else? I usually put up the decorations in mid December. Well, I say I but normally the gardener does it and does it with great taste. Thereās not much to do in the garden at that time of year.
My mum used to buy us an advent candle, so start 1st December, now sheās gone we donāt get one. Decorations go up the weekend before Christmas Day, we do that because daughter and family come to stay over for a few days, itās a holiday for her, she works very hard with all her littluns in the run up.Ā I think if they didn't come, we wouldnāt bother with any.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā
Nothing wrong with xmas decs put up with āgreat tasteā @BenCotto, as ours are, of course However, itās the all singing, dancing, gyrating, flashing, over-sized santa climbing up the balcony and farting as he goes that is the subject of my curmudgeon. I must have a quiet word with your gardener and sneak a few into your 2019 display so you too, can appreciate this wonderous phenomenon.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I don't mind people putting up decorations in or outside their own home. It's listening to Santa roasting on an open fire and the little boy that santa claus forgot, whilst trying to concentrate on my shopping. Sainsbury's makes me want to screamš± Over the years, i have on more than one occasion, abandoned my trolley and b******d off somewhere else. Waitrose and Lidl are mercifully carol -less
@B3 we walked out of our local garden centre which was playing the worst xmas music ever. Imagine christmas songs sung by a really bad barber shop quartet who couldn't find a tenor.
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The question is, if you want your decorations to go up on the 1st are shops allowed to sell decorations in advance so you're ready to go? I like my lights to go up on the first weekend in december but the decorations go up gradually after that. Advent calendars go up on the 30th of November obviously and then I can start my traditional moaning that my wife hasn't made me a beer advent calendar again.
I think if they didn't come, we wouldnāt bother with any.