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This is ridiculous

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10677562

Garry Russell wrote:This is ridiculous

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10677562

Agree 100% Garry.

Wonder when they kick off with the Easter eggs?


Graham

AHHHHHHH!!!! It's bad enough in December!

The biggest problem with Christmas as it is...sort of starting in November, is that come the day it's an anti climax as you're so fed up with it by then

So much so that most folks take their decoration down well before 12th night as they have had enough

We always used to put the tree up Christmas eve and it made that day as well as Christmas day really special.

Shopping was only done in the few days before Christmas.


I suppose it won't be long before they start selling stuff for the year 3,000.......only 990 years to go so best get cracking eh!

Gary, when we lived in England, my parents would put up the Christmas tree and decorate it........after we had gone to bed on Christmas Eve! They told us kids that Father Christmas and the elves brought the tree and decorated it. They must have been crazy to do that! The tree stayed up until twelth night.

I have fond memories of visiting Selfridges on Oxford Street before Christmas to visit Father Christmas and I am horified that Selfridges is now starting Christmas in August! I thought the Colonists had the monopoly of rushing the seasons but it looks like you lot have them beat.

Nigel²

The truly sad thing about all this is the fact that the reason behind it all has been forgotten.


Graham

The bottom line is....we didn't have money so there was not buying for weeks beforehand and often our presents were second hand.

I had a Meccano set 4 that was used.based and with a few bits missing that was a much prized present.

Sounds rough by todays standards but they were the best Christmasses of my life

There is something about Christmas that is special and can't be bought. In those days the advent calender was not a Kids theme with chocolate in each day but a candle, or a prayer book or perhaps a shepherd.

The came the 24th and the double door with the nativity scene.....no surprise by special.

Seems.well for me anyway, all that is lost and it is some years now since we even bothered to put up a tree or any decorations as all this hype has long spoilt it before the first chill of winter.

I am just grateful that, if nothing else, I do have those memories of times past like the teacher in infants school turning off the lights and as we sang a carol she would pich out, one by one, the real candles on a real chrismas tree untill it was dark and then the jingle of bells hearalded Santa arrival.

This was on the last day of term and was also the first proper experience of the forthcoming event apart from making decorations for a couple of weeks previously.

Infants with strong glue and tinsel and glitter left to their own devices, cutting out with real scissors and then teacher lighting real candles on real Chrsitams treee.....H& S would have a field day.......but that was nice, that was fun, that was the true spirit of the season.

Personally, I set 1st Dec as my start of Christmas shopping.
The earlier a store (or chain) starts promoting Christmas, the less likely I am to do my shopping there!

Bah Humbug!!!

Kevin

Well, I watched James May's Toy Stories tonight and the episode was about the Meccano bridge in Liverpool and it brought back a flood of memories. So if you don't want to read the musings of an old fart - stop right here!

Like Gary, I was given a second hand Meccano set from a cousin when I was four or five. I can't remember if it was for Christmas or not. At that age, I was hardly able to build anything but I do remember pestering my dad, the aeronautical engineer, to build me a replica of a London Tram. I had a great fascination for those noisy beasts and I was very upset when they left London on 6 June, 1952. I had wanted to ride on a tram and never did ride one in London because they were noisy and uncomfortable according to my parents. That, of course was the whole appeal to me. Then, on that sad day they were gone. (until Croydon, anyway)

A few years later I did manage to persuade my mum to take me on a tram ride during a visit to grandma in Liverpool. We rode the tram from Garston to the ferry and took that accross the Mersey to Birkenhead and back. Years later a song would hit the charts that will always remind me of that day. James May mentioned the transporter bridge that crossed from Runcorn to Widnes, another mechanical object I found fascinating. It became a new Meccano project I undertook and with some help from dad (OK, a lot of help) I managed to build a replica of that.

I wish I still had that Meccano set but my mother disposed of it when I was away at college here in the Colonies. The logic was I had certainly outgrown it and had not used it in years. I suppose ‘logic’ is not the best choice of words in that previous sentence but anyway, like the trams and the transporter bridge, it was gone.

Nigel²

Here you are Nigel.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53LUbURSdbU




Graham