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I belong to a retirement group that has a C......s lunch every December. (Not this year, though). Wherever we go, it has to be booked very early in the year to ensure getting our chosen date,

annsuxty what part of U k are you living in we ve had a beautiful summer in the east east Lots of very hot days

Christmas Clubs are different ev.
They’re a way for those who have to watch their money to save for Christmas.

Someone on our local Facebook page was asking if anyone could let her have some Christmas wrapping paper. This was a few days ago. I wondered what on earth she could be wrapping up this early.

Our town has an annual street fair at the beginning of November and all mention of Christmas is banned till after it has gone.

It's cancelled this year so I expect Christmas will not happen either!

Sorry, Channel 4, I think.

Our local garden centre is also getting ready, and has started to display various wreaths, baubles, tinsel etc. Oh dear, by Christmas proper, we'll be heartily sick of it!
Mind you, I remember a couple of years ago, Channel 5 in their wisdom started screening those awful, smaltzy Christmas films from mid August!!

@Callistemon ?

You just need a couple of really dismal rainy days - bound to be plenty of those coming up - and nothing else you have to do!
One thing I’ve learned with the latest, get all the cardboard bases sorted in one go, so much less of a faff, but at least I remembered this time where I’d tidied away the ancient school set of Oxford Mathematical Instruments (for the pair of compasses.).

No Christmas here until after the 4th/5th December when St Nicolas comes.
In a lot of families that is when Children get their gifts, adults at New Year so Christmas is a family day.
Shops need special licences to put displays in windows etc.
Suits me fine.

I am one of those who firmly believes that Christmas should not start until December. However, on October 1st on my wall calendar I find I have written a reminder: : 'buy Christmas lights.' For the past two years I have set off to buy outdoor lights in December only to find they have all vanished from the shops, (and are probably already twinkling outside my opposite neighbours house.)

Witzend you know what I have to do, don't you!

Come September, I will, I will
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A sign in the butchers ages ago----Join our C club.

@Baubles, displays like that have been a favourite (free!) outing for little Gdcs, and I’m sure many other children, in the past. Magical for very little ones.

I’m sure dd/SiL wouldn’t take them until at least mid November though.

The only thing about Christmas that I'll be looking at in the next few days/weeks is where to go - don't want my sister and her family to have to put me up again and would rather get it organised now rather than wait. Last year nobody had asked me so I booked 2 nights in a youth hostel in the centre of Manchester, which meant I had loads to see while I was there, and then my niece invited me! Luckily I managed to cancel the booking without any loss but want to get organised earlier this year. Don't want my family to think they have to sort me out every year!

I was just thinking the other day that once we’re into September* I’m going to make a nice big batch of Delia’s delish m****m**t.
None of it will go inside pastry until the 1st December though, strict rule in this house.

*counts as autumn, even if it’s much better weather than August, as it so often is once the children are all back at school.

Hate it with a passion. Just encouraging people to spend silly money buying unnecessary stuff. Wait until December and let the children get really excited For a limited time.

I have had e-mails with details of C,,,,,,,,S meals and gin and wine Advent calendars.
Let us get over this mostly dire summer please.

There’s a particularly good garden centre with a large indoor section which I enjoy mooching around but only between April and the middle of July. Come the end of July there are signs everywhere saying ‘please bear with us while we update our seasonal displays’. By the beginning of August it’s a full on Narnia/Snow Queen/Christmas Wonderland extravaganza. Apparently people love it and come from miles around.

Well now you ve made it worse by bringing it on here lily
Bah humbug ?

Lily I thought we weren’t allowed to mention Chr***mas on GN until December... you’ll get reported... (just joking?)

I heard the other day that the John Lewis C-word shop is now open - but only online, to save anyone having an apoplexy in the actual shop. ?