The people a few houses up the road had a tree up in their front room yesterday - November 12th!

Also Sainsburys put their internal decorations up the same day.

And Tescos had theirs up this morning.

I noticed over the weekend that one of the local Black Country townlets near me's Christmas lights had appeared on the lampposts in the main shopping street - a shopping street of about three shops, including two charity shops.

EDIT: The third shop being the Spar, which actually shut down a few months ago.

There's exactly one month to go until Christmas.

I've been informed that the xmas tree is going up next weekend.

Whether I like it or not.

By whom? The canary?

I'm putting my tree up next Saturday cos it's December 1st, and Advent Sunday isn't til the next day, so the 'earlier of the two' clause comes into play.

Fangirl Three wrote:

By whom? The canary?

At Sainsburys this morning I purchased 27 mini mince pies, and a one-person Christmas pudding.

Fangirl Three wrote:

and a one-person Christmas pudding.

Oh the pathos.

Nightjar wrote:

Fangirl Three wrote:

and a one-person Christmas pudding.

Oh the pathos.

It's for eating on New Year's Day. On Christmas Day itself I shall be having a share of the family-size pud.

Ooh, must get some biscuits for cheese. And some sandwich pickle and/or pickled beetroots.

Also, nearer the time, some satsumas.

Next door have put up their decorations!

I got given a Christmas Swatch once.

It ticked so loudly I had to take the batteries out and hide it at the back of the cupboard.

I've got to go up in the loft and get the tree down, and I don't want to.

I have successfully retrieved the tree from the loft. There were no casualties.