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There is a house in Oswaldtwistle near the Co-op, that has been trimmed up for Christmas for over a week.

I know retailers like to remind us that we should be spending money by decorating their windows by early November, but this is ridiculous.

Are there any more houses near you already festooned with fairy lights, trees, and Santas?

I'm sorely tempted to play their game and post them a Happy Easter card through their door.

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So you're posting to yourself?

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No I'm a traditionalist.

I decorate on Christmas Eve.

This year I'm using shrunken heads as my theme, so don't sit still to long Teabag or you just might find a sprig of holly sticking out of an orifice.;)

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every time i see a house trimmed up before december i prey for an electrical fire

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That's not very nice, people die in fires.

On a similar line, do be careful with candles this Christmas, they can do a lot of damage if you are not careful.

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garinda recomends using KY or butter at a push :p

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Life and Times of Oswaldtwistle is already playing 'Walking in a Winter Wonderland' and offering Season's Greetings to visitors to the website.

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Making silly jokes when children die in fires every Christmas isn't funny.

I'd deduct karma from you, but that would be childish.

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Christmas comes earlier every wonder how long before the decorations go up at Easter? :rolleyes:

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well the earlier they put up christmas decorations the more chance their is of having a christmas fire so the answer is dont be an idiot and leave christmas to christmas time therefore making the period that christmas decoration are up shorter and reducing the risk :p

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I know someone who already has a drawer full of Easter Rabbits.........Bunnies, whatever they are called.

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Stew if I can get my hands on them. ;)

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Chav celebrates the season with a neighbour.

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i dont get it....?

i think your trying too hard to be funny garinda , take some deep breaths , calm down and come back when your ready to have another try :p

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I wasn't trying to be funny. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks electrical fires aren't a good way to show people they are decorating too early.

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Did sombody say something about silly jokes.......:p.

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ime buying garinda a fire extinguisher for christmas...


its gonna be empty ;)

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Here we go, I say black, you say white.

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Are what? :confused:

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i altered my reply coz 3 posts were made while i was thinking wot to put lol

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Doug I know you are still mourning the loss of Lord Litchfield, so I'll be gentle with you.;)

If you do light a candle for him do be careful though, hot air is highly combustible.;)

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Crass Gary. Absolute crass at it’s worst and an example of what I mean…..

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Ahhhh.

Do I look bothered?:D

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err actualy i lied no one said f**k rindy :D

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I hope you B’s get a PM for all this swearing that going on….I only have to think of one to get a warning…..:D

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its quite ok to type bastard doug you dont need to put B's see :D

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Lovely thread, this.

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If I give Karma it’s because someone (in no particular order) lightened my day and made me smile, help someone who’s struggling or as been unfairly targeted by idiots or otherwise or has posted something that deserved it on merit. Whatever the reason it’s my choice and over the months you have benefited more than most for all of the aforementioned reasons so stop cribbing about karma..

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Yes apparently the Christmas spirit lives on............Scrooge like.

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I like it.....:)

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roll on new years eve :D

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Leave those sort of questions for your lady fiends mate.:eek:

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With you all the way there Chav. :)

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Oh calm down Lothario, have a mince pie.

I minced them just for you.:D

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I happened to be in Rishton this morning, at 5:45am. At the bottom of Hermitage Street there was a half-mad old woman perched on top of a ladder to position an illuminated Father Christmas and a Snowman on the top of her bay window.

Christmas Spirit is one thing, that was just plain insanity.

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Now what's that word I'm not allowed to say......

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Yup a family round the back of us have got all their Christmas decs up and have had them up since 6th November. I find it really annoying that I'm going to have to look at these things for ages! It would be OK if they had done it tastefully :( nope OTT and very tacky!!

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Maybe there should be a bye law against it. Think of the poor parents who's kids decide crimbo is here and give mum and dad a hard time.

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there should be a law against it so that we can see the councilors get taken away to prison for leaving them up all year lol

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Just think in six weeks time Christmas will be all over with, and hopefully we will all be looking forward to the new year.

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_15_5.gif trafford centre festooned including santas grotto- but dont worry its easter eggs next week





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Ahh, yes. Lest we forget, there is those arch offenders against taste and decency; HBC. Who have managed to embarass the borough for the second year in a row by leaving the Christmas illuminations up outside Accrington Town Hall. They have a very odd interpetation of "Thirty years of service to the people of Hyndburn". Very odd indeed. One quite often wonders whether they speak the same language; they certainly do not seem to inhabit the same planet as the rest of us miserable mortals.

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I was having a look at them last night in fact. I was wondering what they’re going to look like in a week or two when they switch on. I love going to Ambleside or Lancaster at Christmas where the lights tend to be beautifully simple single and plan white bulbs drawn across the streets or festooned in and around the bared branches of trees. I noted that Broadway is slipping further into ill planned and dismal blandness, what a great pity that such an opportunity was wasted, my opinion. I like the area around and in front of the town all and for the life of me I can’t see what HBC thought they were going to achieve. Going back to the Accy Christmas lights, I would have thought that the costs of on site servicing, repair and or replacement and the health and safety implications of the lads working on them would be greater than the cost of taking them down, servicing and storing them safely over the winter and summer month. They might well end up replacing them altogether.

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There has to be brains and commen sense for the council;

"I would have thought that the costs of on site servicing, repair and or replacement and the health and safety implications of the lads working on them would be greater than the cost of taking them down, servicing and storing them safely over the winter and summer month. They might well end up replacing them altogether."

Unfortunately HBC has still to find the back of the que to get a bit of these atributes.

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But the level of argument for and against HBC over the past twelve months suggests that someone somewhere must have an inkling of common sense? Not all of them are elected individuals, what are the civil servant types doing, surly at least one of them can workout the economics of the problem. It’s not going to be that expensive to deploy two lads, a hydraulic lifting platform and a big box to put them in is it. Once a sparks as turned the juice off anyone with a Health and Safety certificate, driving licence and a screw driver could get on with the job.

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;) Wonder if thesecontracts the council has for services are part of the problem? If they wont take them down now what are they going to do if a scallywag with a good catty lets rip.

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Has anyone got any recent photos of the said Christmas lights, I intrigued as to what they look like now……….

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No but it doesnt take much imagination. :D

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There again, Blackpool puts miles of the blessed things up every year and has no problems with them. As Doug suggests, it is hardly rocket science!

If I were a cynic. "What? No. Never!" I hear you shout. And I must agree with you, but let us, for the sake of argument, pretend that I was. As a cynic I would say that if anyone were looking for a reason why there was not enough money to remove the Christmas Illuminations one need look no futher than the recent increase in councillors remuneration. What was it, a twenty six percent increase in allowances? Coming at a time when our glorious leader-ette is wailing and gnashing his teeth over how strapped for cash the borough is, it stikes me as somehow slightly less than convincing.

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Sorry Rindy. I love you really, but struggle showing my emotions?:D

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Its me me me with the council and sod the rest of the public. Pity they cant put the same effort into the bourgh as they do in themselves. End result lights still about unfilled shops a dying market etc etc etc.

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It's still November and lots of you are already decorating my screen with bloody Christmasy avatars.:(

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http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/28/28_4_8.gif Like this one? :p :p :p :) :) :) :D

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Never mind my daughter will find a use for them if you dont want them.

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Well I have my tree up. Mainly to shut the bl@@dy kids up at the weekend. Every two minutes " mum can we put the tree up" " mum when we putting the tree up" and in the end I gave in.

To be quite honest i think it is up to individual preference when we put decorations up. Some people do it very early, and others do it quite late.

Ginger goes absolutely mad every single year, with lights all over the outside of the house. He has done this since the children were very small.
Every year without fail I get people with young children looking in the house for 20 minutes at a time at our house at Christmas.
One lady across the road, her little girl won't go to bed until she has put her little girls coat and hat on and brought her to look at our house. Then the little girl will go to bed. Cars drive past and stop, usually I forget that the lights are there and end up saying to ginger, " what the bloody hell are they looking at":o Only to be reminded that we are living in a grotto.

I suppose it's what makes us all different!!!

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Awww what a nice Mum and Dad your kids have. It is a magical time for children.

I'm just glad they don't nag you to put up the decorations in the summer holidays though.;)

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No that is pushing it a little bit. Nice mum and dad you say??? yeah by the time we pay the electric bill for the fantastic light display, nothing left for pressies...............pressies for me anyway:(

So have a heart!!!!!!!! buy miss slinky a pressie this year.... :o :o :o :o :o

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Try closing the bedroom curtains when your getting dressed ;) :D

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I never thought of that Tinks!!!!:p I only have one stoker, and he is friendly enough!!! so I keep him for company from time to time.

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My aunt could give lessons here place puts Bucannan Street to shame and santa would feel right at home. More tinsel than woolies.