Where is Xmas?

[ScienceBoy]

Only 10 days to go and it feels like late November of years past.

Hardly anyone has decorations up.

Shops are understated, Xmas music not playing or barely audible.

By this time, a few years ago Xmas was in your face everywhere you went and you were fed up of it already.

This year it feels like it's yet to get going.

Christmas is getting later every year it seems

 

[bobmac]

Just wait till its 10 days to go till Christmas, then it will really get going

 

[louise_a]

Personally I blame all the Christmas advertising that has been going on since September.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Well - as we are in Advent we know that Christmas is on it's way. Carol Service choir practices are underway; the church has been decorated, and Classic FM are playing beautiful arrangements of carols. Easy to know Christmas is coming if you look and listen in the right place

 

[SocketRocket]

Happy Holidays !

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Happy Holidays !

Have a Happy Christmas !

 

[Crazyface]

Only 10 days to go and it feels like late November of years past.

Hardly anyone has decorations up.

Shops are understated, Xmas music not playing or barely audible.

By this time, a few years ago Xmas was in your face everywhere you went and you were fed up of it already.

This year it feels like it's yet to get going.

Christmas is getting later every year it seems

I love Christmas, yet strangely I'm not feeling Christmassy as all this year.

 

[ScienceBoy]

I love Christmas, yet strangely I'm not feeling Christmassy as all this year.

It just seems 2016 is that sort of year, I don't think it's going to be remembered for many good things.

 

[turkish]

I think it's the weather too- relatively mild and not a hint of snow

 

[Deleted member 21258]

Christmas is here, love it.

Be nice to have tiny ones around again, there is something they bring to the table at Christmas that older children, young or old adults can not.

It times of Christmas bingo nights at village halls and schools, great time Christmas is, bring it on!

 

[philly169]

Getting ready for Easter now

 

[ManinBlack]

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Have a Happy Christmas !

As a devout Methylated Spititualist I am offended by your saying that.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

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As a devout Methylated Spititualist I am offended by your saying that.

You don't have to have one if you don't want

So instead I'll wish you a Happy Purple Patch :thup:

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

It just seems 2016 is that sort of year, I don't think it's going to be remembered for many good things.

That is certainly the case in my family - it has truly been our Annus Horribilus and I won't be that sad to see the back of it.

 

[GB72]

That is certainly the case in my family - it has truly been our Annus Horribilus and I won't be that sad to see the back of it.

Agree with that. No festive feeling at all. Just want 2016 to be gone

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Christmas is getting later every year it seems

Good

 

[IanM]

Went to Bath Xmas Market last week... very Xmassy in that town... just been walking round Southampton, plenty of seasonal decoration and nutty shoppers there too!

Its got quite mild and rainy in the South this week, that doesn't help! SNOW NEEDED!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Agree with that. No festive feeling at all. Just want 2016 to be gone

Oh I have plenty of Christmas feeling and indeed I am truly grateful that I have Christmas to brighten up what has been a truly dreadful year for my immediate and wider family - with the beauty and message of Christmas for me being the celebration of what is good in humankind and so providing hope for the new year and the future.

 

[User62651]

Brougth tree in earlier, Mrs now attempting to untangle the lights.....red and green tat everywhere.....sigh.

 

[Craigg]

13 days off. Golf, eat, drink, relax with Mrs Craigg in front of telly. :thup: