I used to be really indignant about how Christmas started shortly before Halloween but not any more.
I have thrown my hat at it, I rejoice at the sparkling decorations. I am ready for Christmas music. I will get many of my decorations out of the shed at the start of December and I will deploy my Christmas ware shortly (incidentally, the Princess tells me she loathes it, I am crushed; someone else will be getting it in the will is all I can say.). I won’t even wait for the traditional starting gun of December 8 (Feast of the Immaculate Conception and formerly a holiday when the whole country did its Christmas shopping now deep in the Christmas season).
Slightly related, I see that vandals have destroyed Scrooge’s gravestone in Shrewsbury which my friend took me to visit when I was there. What a shame and hardly in the spirit of the extended season.
In final early Christmas news, even I draw the line at the rather gloomy Christmas decorations that have appeared in the corridor at work. Somehow worse than nothing at all.
Tell me, where do you stand on Christmas in November?
I am firmly of the view that I don’t do Christmas before the 15th of December but, like you, have been beaten down and am actively thinking about decor already but it’s not going up until about the 10th
You can only imagine the impact of the Scrooge gravestone – even the Guardian reporter on it. It is currently under repair
Normally not ’til December but this year with what is happening in the natural and geopolitical worlds I need all the sparkly, homemade help I can get so have already visited one Christmas craft fair in a village hall and will be attending another tomorrow!!??
Same here. Saw a chap shopping in his Christmas jumper and thought ‘good for you’. I think everyone is a bit ground down and needs a bit of a lift. Really not looking forward to the next few months of cold and dark, even without everything else that’s going on
I work in a primary school. By the time we have a holiday, I am happy to leave Christmas behind is all I would say.
Peace and quiet has something to recommend it.
When I did my teacher training many years ago now, one of our trainers described it as ‘the tinsel terror’. It is.
Heather, I CAN imagine the Scrooge gravestone disaster, still, a shame.
Catharine, TM, I agree, I think it’s the times, we really need extended cheer.
Suzy, I truly enjoy the “tinsel terror” and will be deploying that expression as soon as the opportunity arises.