When is the best time to start putting up Christmas decorations? Some shops and stores seem to have jumped the gun and have already had their decorations and Christmas trappings out for some weeks already.
It's good to see more Christmas lights going up around the neighbourhood. It's amazing what folk can do with a few strings of coloured lights, an inflatable elf, mechanical reindeer and some "Santa stop here" sticks and signs. Which reminds me, I wanted to get some Christmas clobber for the car - reindeer antler, Santa hats, maybe even a Rudolph nose. There are plenty of options. Come to think of it, though, I haven't seen that many around this year so there may be fewer options than I think.
Spare a thought for the folk who live along the canals and who go to a lot of effort and may not have enough eyes on their Christmas exterior illuminations. We did a Canal Lights Tour last night and were not disappointed, even though the Deckie on board told us that there seemed to be fewer lights this year ... it’s already the 9th so we think anyone who was going to have decorations and lights up, have already attended to it. There were stretches where everyone had gone all out with their lights, and other stretches where it was not lit-up (except by the thunder from the storm in the distance) and their massive television sets!
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