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Rowlf 16-11-2014 13:45

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I had to check my calendar this morning as I passed a house round the corner already trimmed up for Christmas and then I switched the radio on in the kitchen and on Smooth radio they were playing Christmas songs.
I tuned into another station quick. Perhaps I'm turning into Scrooge but seems too early for either yet to me.

Margaret Pilkington 16-11-2014 13:47

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I went to Manchester a couple of weeks ago and on the route there was a house with a Christmas tree in the window...decorated and lit up.

cashman 16-11-2014 14:09

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There just saddos as far as i'm concerned.:rolleyes:

westendlass 16-11-2014 14:43

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I was in Blackburn on Friday and all the shops seemed to be playing Christmas background music. There is someone around the corner from me with their trimmings already up, I agree with you Cashy its all a bit sad. I would have thought you'd be sick of the sight of them by Christmas! One of the television channels have been playing cheesy American crimbo films back to back for a couple of weeks too. Its going to be all year round soon.

Less 16-11-2014 14:54

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If I remember correctly, the earliest looking forward to Christmas thread started on here was in early October one year, so for once it is getting later in the year thank goodness.

maxthecollie 16-11-2014 17:14

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We have today had our £2000 Christmas Tree installed on the roundabout near our house. What a H.B.C. Rip Off.

Rowlf 16-11-2014 20:54

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Well doesn't sound like I am on my own in thinking its too early for putting trees etc up in the house. I can understand the shops being decorated by now but not a home.

DtheP47 16-11-2014 21:24

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There's house in Penmaenmawr N Wales that keep their Christmas Lights on their gable end all year round. A few years ago when my grandson first saw it around June time he said sagely "Well that saves em a job at Christmas "

dotti34 17-11-2014 08:52

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I certainly agree that all the Christmas stuff is started far too early these days, especially when individual homes are being decorated weeks before Christmas is here.

I remember when I was a child we did our house decorations during the week leading up to Christmas, homemade trimmings made from crepe paper. Part of the fun was sitting around as a family twisting the strips of paper into pretty ‘ropes’, folding them in a special way using three different colours, crimping the paper here and there and also making chains long enough so that they stretched across the room. Didn’t have the money to buy fancy decorations, though we did have some that we saved from year to year – paper bells that opened up.

Then when we had used up all the paper our efforts would be fixed to the walls and ceiling with drawing pins and stretched from corner to corner, looped up here and there to the ceiling.

My dad would always ‘acquire’ a real Christmas tree from somewhere and we would put more paper decorations on this and some ‘special’ ones that had been saved over the years. Maybe some tinsel if we had any.

It was a combined effort from all the family and created so much fun and laughter, so much excitement that Christmas was almost there, only a few days away. We only used two or three packets of crepe paper but we made lots and lots of lovely decorations with them. The room was full to overflowing.

What a pity that so much of that sort of simple fun and enjoyment has been lost over the years.

maxthecollie 17-11-2014 09:07

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Here is our £2,000 Christmas Tree. Value for money or what?

maxthecollie 17-11-2014 09:23

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I can see where the money has been spent now .Two wagons.

westendlass 17-11-2014 17:01

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Thinking about Christmas, I've just remembered the time my brother got his first bachelor pad ( a one bedroomed flat) and decided to go hunter gatherer to get his tree. He found one in a wood somewhere, hacked it down and installed it in his living room. He didn't realise until that point that the farmer who owned the land had sprayed his trees with manure to stop people nicking his trees. It stank his house out , was hastily removed and taught him to buy one in future! (He was only young at the time!) :eek:

Rowlf 17-11-2014 17:57

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Dotti34 brought back memories of making paper chains etc. Paper trimmings, the concertina type, strung across the room and on the small artificial tree REAL candles that clipped on the end of a branch and they were lit !!!! ecky peck health and safety brigade would have a fit .

Eric 17-11-2014 20:23

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Originally Posted by Rowlf (Post 1123984)
ecky peck health and safety brigade would have a fit .

Screw 'em ... I remember the real candles too ... and sending notes to Santa up the chimney.

Rowlf 17-11-2014 21:08

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Ha Ha yeh and putting a pillow case on bottom of bed.No fancy coloured bags or sacks then. Never noticed whether pillow case on Christmas morning was same sort as left night before.

cashman 18-11-2014 06:44

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Originally Posted by Rowlf (Post 1124007)
Ha Ha yeh and putting a pillow case on bottom of bed.No fancy coloured bags or sacks then. Never noticed whether pillow case on Christmas morning was same sort as left night before.

Pillow case? yeh musta been a rich lot, We put a sock.:eek::D

Less 18-11-2014 12:53

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1124026)
Pillow case? yeh musta been a rich lot, We put a sock.:eek::D

Yeah, and Father Christmas would only fill it up to the hole in the heel.

Gordon Booth 18-11-2014 14:00

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Dad used to drop five loose Smarties in each of our socks. Trouble was if there was a hole in the toe they'd all fall out and we'd think he'd forgotten it was Christmas.

Nothing worse than a Christmas stocking with nothing but a hole in it!

Less 18-11-2014 14:05

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth (Post 1124059)
Dad used to drop five loose Smarties in each of our socks. Trouble was if there was a hole in the toe they'd all fall out and we'd think he'd forgotten it was Christmas.

Nothing worse than a Christmas stocking with nothing but a hole in it!

You had more than one sock between you?
Now I know I'm mixing with the elite!

Gordon Booth 18-11-2014 14:10

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Originally Posted by Less (Post 1124062)
You had more than one sock between you?
Now I know I'm mixing with the elite!

Oh yes. Short of nothing.
But if I wanted to wear a pair I had to pinch my cousins sock.

They never matched!

Barrie Yates 18-11-2014 14:35

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth (Post 1124063)
Oh yes. Short of nothing.
But if I wanted to wear a pair I had to pinch my cousins sock.

They never matched!

We noticed:D

Less 18-11-2014 14:37

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth (Post 1124063)
Oh yes. Short of nothing.
But if I wanted to wear a pair I had to pinch my cousins sock.

They never matched!

Why? did the holes in his sock not match yours?
Or was your cousin a girl so you ended up with one white ankle sock and one grey turned down at the knee wooly sock?

Gordon Booth 18-11-2014 14:47

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Originally Posted by Less (Post 1124069)
Why? did the holes in his sock not match yours?
Or was your cousin a girl so you ended up with one white ankle sock and one grey turned down at the knee wooly sock?

Come on, Less!

I had some pride- I'd never wear a girls sock. People would notice!

Less 18-11-2014 15:03

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth (Post 1124070)
Come on, Less!

I had some pride- I'd never wear a girls sock. People would notice!

You would never wear 'a' girls sock, but did your prejudice prevent you from wearing a pair of them?
After all, there must have been times you wanted to display to the world the wealth and diversity of the family you were being dragged up in.

Gordon Booth 18-11-2014 17:26

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Wear a pair of girls socks?
I wouldn't dare, I'd have had Barrie and Bob chasing after me.
As for diversity, as far as I know my family were all heterosexual.

westendlass 18-11-2014 17:38

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Well, I got an activity toy at christmas, a turnip. You wouldn't believe how much pleasure you could get when you got to peel it at dinner time! :tongueout

Less 18-11-2014 17:59

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Originally Posted by westendlass (Post 1124086)
Well, I got an activity toy at christmas, a turnip. You wouldn't believe how much pleasure you could get when you got to peel it at dinner time! :tongueout

Peel it?

What a waste of nutrition, we were told to eat it mud and all, nothing stirs the memory more than shivering around the Christmas Turnip, though I do remember one year when I was really young, my mother somehow saved up and instead of turnip we had a swede, I was that year even allowed a full leaf to myself, though my older brothers and sister have since told me that my Dad had got up early and sucked all the sap out of the leaf that I got.

Less 18-11-2014 18:06

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth (Post 1124084)
As for diversity, as far as I know my family were all heterosexual.

Surely you like everyone else had an Uncle that spent his war years in Portsmouth trying to get into the Marines?

Gordon Booth 18-11-2014 18:21

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Originally Posted by Less (Post 1124090)
Surely you like everyone else had an Uncle that spent his war years in Portsmouth trying to get into the Marines?

Actually I had an uncle who spent the war in Portsmouth/Gosport but he had six children so I'm fairly sure about him.

My dad always said the peelings off a turnip had the most goodness in them and cooking them would spoil it. So he always let me eat them raw while he had to put up with hot turnip soup.
He always did spoil me!

dotti34 18-11-2014 20:31

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Love all the very funny comments. Thank you for giving me a good start to my day, with laughter. One thing about it – however poor we were as kids somehow we managed to develop a sense of humour which carried us through the bad times as well as the good. I guess we had to. Most of you have still got it by the sound of things, and thank goodness for that.

We accepted the way things were as we didn’t know anything different. Wonder how many these days could (and would) do the same.

Anyway, hope you are all enjoying the good times now, and can actually afford a pair of matching socks – without holes, and maybe a bit of meat to go with the turnip.

Eric 18-11-2014 22:57

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Originally Posted by dotti34 (Post 1124100)

Anyway, hope you are all enjoying the good times now, and can actually afford a pair of matching socks – without holes, and maybe a bit of meat to go with the turnip.

And don[t forget the new penny and the sugar pig.;)

Eric 18-11-2014 23:45

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Come to think of it, it wasn't the whole pig ... it was that bit of string that stuck out of its ass ... but, luxury of luxuries, there was a hint of pink on it. And I didn't get to keep the penny. But I did get a peek at it before it went into the gas meter.

Rowlf 19-11-2014 14:17

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Anyone have a goose for Christmas dinner ? We did some years but unfortunately mum used to save the fat and smother me with it to prevent colds. HORRIBLE.

dotti34 19-11-2014 19:09

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We used to have a goose at Christmas-time. My mother plucked the goose herself as it was cheaper to buy it unplucked. Plenty of meat on it and also my mother could replenish her supply of goose-grease which she used throughout the winter. It might have been horrible but it did the job. Quite a few uses for it, including preserving leather - that's if, of course, you had anything leather to preserve!

Him indoors tells me he used to rub it all over his body before going out to play soccer (he was a goal-keeper) as it kept the rain and the cold from his body.

Eric 19-11-2014 19:28

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Originally Posted by dotti34 (Post 1124190)
We used to have a goose at Christmas-time. My mother plucked the goose herself as it was cheaper to buy it unplucked.

Cheaper to go out and shoot one:alright: Just push the little bits of lead to the side of the plate;)

Rowlf 19-11-2014 21:10

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My dad played a lot of football and used olive oil to keep cold and wet out. I used it on my legs in winter for hockey at school. Much preferable to goose grease.

dotti34 21-11-2014 21:05

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Ah, but that came as a free extra when you had a goose....

dotti34 21-11-2014 21:13

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Eric, can you please explain further about the sugar pig...haven't heard about that one. I vaguely remember something about a new penny - is that to do with the New Year?

MargaretR 21-11-2014 22:07

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I recall sugar mice - pink sugar compressed into a mouse shape with a string tail.
Sugar pigs are still made today
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boynes-Indiv...rds=sugar+pigs

Gordon Booth 21-11-2014 22:22

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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1124429)
I recall sugar mice - pink sugar compressed into a mouse shape with a string tail.
Sugar pigs are still made today
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So are sugar mice. Must admit I never fancied the bit of string coming out of their bottoms- still, if it's all you can get?

Rowlf 21-11-2014 22:27

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There is a little old fashioned sweet shop in Haworth that always has both sugar pigs and mice. I remember having them at Christmas. What about the silver threepenny pieces in the pudding ? Does anyone still put coins in their pud?

Eric 22-11-2014 00:51

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Originally Posted by Rowlf (Post 1124431)
What about the silver threepenny pieces in the pudding ?

I remember that ... much better than finding little bits of lead in the goose.:D


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