General Chat

My neighbour has put up his christmas decs. there is tasteless, really tasteless..... and then My neighbour! .

We've got -Illuminated icicles dangling from the facias, -Happy chrismas flashing in the middle of the house wall, - 13 Other (yes 13) sets of lights/illuminated thinggies either flashing or just lit... ... including 3' high reindeer , 5 of them , galloping across the front lawn towing santa. They are going to drive me bananas!

Oh dear Jess, Draw your curtains and pretend they don't exist! Beryl x

one of my neighbours put his up earlier. lights all over the house plus a reindeer (with lights), what I can only describe as 'lights sticks' stuck in the ground along the front of the house, and to top it all, an 8 foot inflatable Winnie the Pooh (in santa garb). All very tasteful eh ?

They flash thru the flippin curtains! Not colour co-ordinated and they are not sychronised either.... 2 santas and 2 snow men each 18'' high flashing + the reindeer and sled on the grass (all 12' x12' of it!)

There was a bit in my local paper this week, a couple have had their decorations vandalised... Vandals cut through six cables supplying the 16,000 watt decorations....this is the front garden of a tiny terraced house.The decos included an inflatable flashing (LOL) Santa, Santa's Grotto, various reindeer bedecked with lights and a flashing Nativity Scene. I laughed to myself, bet it was their neighbours. Olde Crone

oooh... glad it is not just me !!! the house across has loads, all out of synch... all nasty and tacky.... and i hate 'em !!! every year it gets more like blackpool illuminations around here..... YUCK !!! sue.... with one nice twinkling set of lights to her name..... and they are on my tree ! sue. x

**creeps across the road with scissors...wellies on for safety!!**

Jess Only FIVE reindeer? Come on, there's Rudolph and Donner and Blitzen and Prancer and Dancer and Dasher and Vixen and Comet and Cupid. That's 9 at least! I think your neighbour is cutting corners, with only 5. LOL! nell

..and to think that when he was ferreting about in his garage with trails of lights , that he told me ''not many this year because of my bad back''. Cripes , I dread to think what it could have been like!

A few years ago, driving in the dark in a remote moorland part of Cornwall, we came across a cottage absolutely ablaze with lights, decos, moving gizmos, the lot, for whose benefit I do not know...my beloved remarked gloomily 'Gawd! (well something like that) They must be able to see that on the moon!' Olde Crone

Lots of lights up already round some houses in Norwich. Many of them have collecting boxes fixed up and collect for charity from people going round to have a look at them. Don't mind those ones, but some people do try to outdo their neighbours and go well over the top.

This couple do a fantastic job every year for charity with the christmas decorations in the garden of their home. Take a look http://thesnowpeople(.)co(.)uk/index.htm Paul