Preparing for Christmas

I think it must be my bedtime! I'm with the flushing gushing judge again tomorrow! I'm taking a blanket and a thick cardigan and snow boots!

(not that I've got any of the latter to spare, so be grateful!)

GLUSHES?

I know how to! That was ME hitting the g rather than the h! NOT THE BLOODY spell checker!

I've told her how to turn off that bloody spell-checker twice, nag, so really she likes it. Must just like having an excuse

Sorry, jeni (not!)

Well some of the claimants were gushing!

No, you didn't!
Stop making excuses for your terrible Spell-Check!

FLUSHES I said I'd had a bad day!

Hot GUSHES?

I thought today it was getting very close. My judge suffers hot gushes and had the room so cold it made me think of cold, frostbite and CHRISTMAS,

Mine were at it today.....

Well I suppose if we are going to have a wet school holidays the DGC can cut all the things out of store catalogues for sticking on their wish list

Had a charity catalogue in the post today with C. Cards for sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C not allowed to be mentioned in this house until DD's birthdays are over - end of October (DD2) and early November (DD1)! However, I usually try and write my cards during half term .....................................

I get organised every year and buy for C gifts when I see bargains throught out the year,you can gaurentee I have forgotten where I have put them come December I'm still looking for posh decorations I bought in sale at C shop one year in Albert Dock (circa 1985) never to be seen again after I got home ?

Erm....I've started . Just a few stocking fillers. They were bargains. I have a sort of phobia/ocd reaction to C. I'm terrified I'm not ready or don't have enough money so I start very early. I try to be more or less ready apart from fresh food by the end of Nov/first week of Dec. I save with the supermarket for the fresh stuff so I know I'll have the money. Also I can't stand being in crowded shops. I hate to be pulled into the national hysterical spend, spend, spend mentality that affects the country as C becomes closer.

This thread is as Americans would say,a complete Turkey,(oops!), and should cease NOW.We have summer to get through yet

Bah, humbug!

You see! None of you can resist it!

PLEASE STOP perpetuating this thread!
Someone will have to REPORT it as being inappropriate!

If I thought anyone would pay any attention, I'd suggest a pact not to mention 'it' until the middle of November.

STOP!

NOOOOOOOOOO - any talk about Christmas before Guy Fawkes should be totally banned imho. I love Christmas, but hate the early campaign as in the UK- the constant advertising and, worst of all, the synthesized American style music in Shopping Centres.

Very please that any advertising aimed at children is totally banned here.

But we like ours with a bit of bite, Ariadne