I love christmas

[Nicos]

I'm doing mine for the community too DG!

( the fact that I live off a lane off a lane off a lane and hardly anyone else will benefit is urmmmm... )

[Alison]

Hate houses lit up at all hours of day and night and don't really understand what it has to do with the celebration of Christmas. Although I'm not religious Christmas is about spending quality time with my friends and family which all too often I haven't got enough time for. We'll cook and eat nice food as again, we have the time to enjoy this and will give modest presents which have been thought about and in many cases made (although my brother still buys rubbish at the last minute but nothing is perfect ). Can understand decorating the inside of your house (although not until the week before Christmas) but you don't see the outside most of the time so it's always confused me. And don't get me started on blatant commercialism and some of the terrible adverts out at the moment (the M&S X factor one and the John Lewis murdering of a Smiths song come to mind..................)

[taff]

I love fairy lights, I'll put them anywhere I can, I've only got about 6 strings of them...arf arf
I like the lights, it's a little spark in the dark kind of thing.

[veggiechicken]

I have a big string of white LED lights in the living room (on now) and a shorter string of red lights in the Swiss Cheese plant in the porch. But these are for life, not just for Christmas!

[DGoulston]

I have a (9.3M) drop string of 480 bulb blue/white icicle lights to go most the way around my roof terrace (its like 6M wide by 9M long)

still debating what other lights to get, I have 4 plug sockets, so feel I really should use all of them!

Darren

[veggiechicken]

Why not get one of those inflatable Santas that wobble around in the wind and slowly deflate, even though they're plugged in. The sight of Santa, half full of air, flopping from side to side is enough to put a smile on the face of even an old Humbug like me!

[secret santa]

Yes my roof terrace (1st floor) overlooks a big green area in Beckenham,

Oh - so you're THAT DGoulston. *scribbles in little black book.

Noted.

[secret santa]

The sight of Santa, half full of air, flopping from side to side is enough to put a smile on the face of even an old Humbug like me!

Hello - you rang?

[DGoulston]

Oh - so you're THAT DGoulston. *scribbles in little black book.

Noted.

Yay does that mean I am getting extra pressies,

Santa, I would like a new Audi A4, a House with a massive garden for all my veg..... emm....

[veggiechicken]

Hello - you rang?

Hello Santa,
Thought you'd be too busy packing all of DGoulston's pressies to read this. I don't want you to think that I laugh AT you when you're not fully inflated... and I know that these blowup toys are but pale imitations of the real thing and I DO really like Christmas for all that I say ....and, and ....Grovel grovel creep creep... please don't forget where I live xxxxxxxxxxxxx

[mothhawk]

Christmas? Love it! Love wrapping presents, decorating the tree (artificial), making chunky shortbread, love tinsel and sparkly things and snowglobes and the way everyone is a little bit nicer, if only for a week or two.
Taff used a lovely phrase - a spark in the dark - that's what Christmas is. A spark in the dark.

[Jeanied]

I love Christmas on the Vine - the recipes, the good ideas, the Secret Santa and of course....
ta daaaa

THE GARDENERS' REST

[chris]

I love it too, especially now with two kiddies

I went shopping in the new shopping centre in cardiff - all the lights are up. When I arrived at the top of the escalator I had a massive grin on my face- the decorations and lights in there are great!

[Alison]

Nah, the decorations and lights are just up in mid November (and earlier) to try and persuade mugs to buy more stuff that they don't need it's not like the shopping centres actually care what we feel like for any other reason.

[Patchninja]

I love xmas....... but at xmas. Not several months before bah humbug! A week or so before and I'm away with the best of you!!!