How do you know it's Christmas?

Don't need the five senses. All the flippin' threads on Gransnet tells me it's Xmas!

Sight : the first Christmas card (which came this morning!)
Sound : John Rutter carols
Smell. : Pine
Taste. : Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and Bucks Fizz
Touch. : Spikey Christmas tree

Slade

When my Dad died I really missed the smell of a cigar on Christmas Day. It was the only day of the year he smoked one.

Sight - DH stacking logs. We have to bring them up from the field so we need enough for at least a week.

Sound - The chain saw (see above) and my Christmas compilation music that I download each year so I can play it in the kitchen while I'm making mince pies etc.

Taste - The first mince pie - with a glass of sherry, of course.

Touch - All the greenery that I drag in from the garden and sore fingers from wiring stuff on to wreaths.

Gettting all the Christmas decs up [which we have]

going out for pre Christmas meals [which we have ]

AND

last but certainly not least, the countdown

From tonight 23 sleeps !!!!

Or are there only satsumas these days...?

Christmas Eve afternoon at the crib service with the DGC.

The smell of tangerines!

sight...... staggering drunks in the High St at lunchtime wearing Christmas hats.
sounds....... Noddy Holder screaming 'It's Christmaaaaaas!' in the stores.
smell...... cinnamon candles in the garden centre.
taste..... the first Baileys of the season [we opened it last night].
touch..... furry gloves [which I wore today going out as it was so cold here.]
6th sense.... snow[or floods] on the horizon.

Sight....Lights in the High St.

Sounds.......Christmas songs on the radio

Smell....Pine and cinnamon

Taste......Christmas pud

Touch.....pine needles

I am going to add one.

Sixth sense...weather turning crispier.

But this hasnt happened here yet properly.

Sight- crowds and traffic jams
Sounds- tills brass bands playing Christmas carols
Smell- scented candles ( especially cinnamon)
Taste - ginger wine or Bailey's(hard choice)
Touch - bubble wrap as I open the Amazon pRcels

Or do you mean I have to answer all 5 [gulp]

Ok.

Sight...christmas tree

Sound... definitely christmas carols

Smell...difficult. Log fire?

Taste...early christmas dinner in a restaurant[happening tomorrow, yippee!]

Touch...icy weather? A sparkly scratcy christmas jumper?

Sight. Definitely sight.
The christmas tree up in our house.
Not up yet, I dont like it up too early. So it's not christmas here yet!