Christmas lights outside

That's lovely, sal. I bet they will love the light!

we put quite a lot of ligts on our conifers they plug in through the garage door and I have battery operated ones on timers that go on the shrubs at the front door .I love the lights and hate taking them down after the new year ,the street looks much duller and colder without all the lovely colours twinkling at night .The timer ones come from QVC ,they stay on for 4 or 5 hours then switch off and on again the next evening at the same time.Think they were about £25 2 or 3 years ago.One set of batteries lasted the whole month of December

We always put lights in the trees along the drive and around the cotoneaster under the window.
Now we are in the new house I have been pondering a new scheme. The garage is too far away to plug anything in. We have an open wood beamed porch, so I'm thinking of two garlands of pine cones, intertwined with battery operated, white lights on each upright. For the top of each I've got three large reindeer bells, to be tied with a large hessian bow!
I have all the bits ready to assemble at the beginning of December.

Lol @ Daphne ??? the thought makes my eyes water! Thanks for the laugh !

daphne lol!!

We (well, DH) string white icicle lights all along the front porch and along the long garage wall; everyone seems to put up some lights in our area of the road, but nothing OTT.

It just looks lovely when you drive up the road, neighbours put lights in trees and around their front porches, and there are always several candle bridges in windows.

None here, DH is a bit sniffy about twinkly lights outside, but I usually make a holly wreath for the front door, and inside , Christmas tree with lights, and a couple of candle bridges.Tbh I don't want it to be OTT inside, so much to pack away again,but do like some Christmas bits.

I do not go overboard inside, a tree with lights and some lights over a tall cabinet in the dining room. Just cards apart from that. If I had the energy I might do more but I haven't.

Daphne that really made me laugh...Thank You

You all, or most of you probably know my feelings on Christmas, I am probably christened Mrs Scrooge if the truth is told , so you will not be surprised to read that we do not have them. I dislike the tacky ones, but there are one or two near here with tiny twinkly lights draped in the trees, and they do look very nice, must be a nightmare putting them up though.

The worse thing that comes to mind happened 12 years ago. My father died a week before Christmas, and was cremated. At the Crematorium there is a gate house, probably someone who works there in a tied house, and I suppose they had Children, but in view of where it was I found it distasteful that outside the door they had a blow up Santa about ten feet tall!! It was ghastly.

It's difficult to accept that, at our own sad times, the rest of the world just keeps turning, isn't in Shanma.

We are lucky in that we have an outside plug near a tree so it's simple to put lights in the tree. I also have a standard holly that I move to the front door and put battery operated red berries in it. It was recently coved in real berries but those pesky little birds ate them?

We have outside lights all year round draped over some bushes in the back garden. White, solar powered and static, or as static as the wind allows them to be . One set stays on most of the night even in the Winter gloom. They cheer me when I'm on a 2a.m. prowl, I love them.

I could be wrong, but I think it was Phoenix who had lights in her bush last year. Obviously passed the thought to Daphneb too. I love Christmas lights. Don't have any outside but loads indoors.

We always used to put a lovely row of fancy lights across the front of our home. Then, one year, we got new neighbours. One night we arrived home from work and their home looked like Blackpool. If was absolutely festooned, they even had nodding reindeers in the front garden. We didn't bother with ours after that, they would have looked like the poor relations

Delia Smith once said that the best things about Christmas was she could light up her thatch!

cornergran I have been thinking of buying some solar powered lights to put permanently in the garden, but not sure which ones to go for. Yours sound very reliable, can you tell me the make or where you bought them please.......thank you