Lights up

Is it just me or is Christmas coming earlier each year? It's still October but that hasn't stopped Gold Coast computer repair-person Wayne Turner and his wife from spending the last month hard at work putting up their 2.5m Santa, 12 reindeer, and a guitar-playing snowman. And they haven't finished yet - which is why it's a good thing that there's still more than 3 weeks to go before entries close for the area's Christmas Light-Up competition. The Turners will have to wait until 2 December to find out if they're amongst this year's prizewinners - and a little longer (bus tours of the Christmas lights start Dec 7) until they know how much money their display, and people's generosity, have raised for the Gold Coast Hospital's children's ward.