Christmas Watch 2025

[steveindenmark]

We have a couple of all year christmas shops not far from me in Denmark. You come outside into 26 degrees and blinding sun. Its a bit weird.

 

[tyred]

 

[tyred]

wrong Aren't most advent calendars deliberately disappointing by their very nature? 24 tiny non-descript "chocolate flavoured" sweets that totals up to less than a large chocolate bar, but at 10 times the cost of one?

I had a friend who once bought an advent calendar for his dog and he said he couldn't tell the difference between the dog-friendly "chocolate" and the stuff that came in his calendar.

You're buying the wrong Advent calendar...

 

[oxoman]

Sainsbury's have mince pies on the shelf already and local tool shop tool has advent calendars.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Sainsbury's have mince pies on the shelf already and local tool shop tool has advent calendars.

What's in the tool shop advent calendar? Drill bits?

 

[Drago]

Sainsbury's have mince pies on the shelf already and local tool shop tool has advent calendars.

See, mince pies are like Kryptonite to me. Any weightcI manage to shift during the year goes back on thanks to minde pies. Why, damn you, why?! 😭

 

[mistyoptic]

Sainsbury's have mince pies on the shelf already and local tool shop tool has advent calendars.

And on offer already

 

[mistyoptic]

The Range

 

[tyred]

And on offer already
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Probably getting rid of last year's leftovers before getting new ones in.

 

[Moon bunny]

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Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

A Christomas Carol-Charles Dickens

 

[Stevo 666]

I hope that I get a watch for Christmas. Must drop the wife a hint

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I was in home bargains on Wednesday, looking to price their nets of spring bulbs.
The Christmas isle was already set up!
I heard one of the workers ask a colleague "I wonder if they still want the gardening stuff out" ... I'll pop back in next week, for reduced to clear daffodils

 

[wiggydiggy]

Probably eating at home for first time for a few years this year, eating out Christmas Day sounds wonderful but I'm always stressed if it'll be good, or if there'll drunken family there, or something else.

Just fancy a quiet one in.

 

[Reynard]

I was in home bargains on Wednesday, looking to price their nets of spring bulbs.
The Christmas isle was already set up!
I heard one of the workers ask a colleague "I wonder if they still want the gardening stuff out" ... I'll pop back in next week, for reduced to clear daffodils

A woman after my own heart!

 

[Reynard]

Probably eating at home for first time for a few years this year, eating out Christmas Day sounds wonderful but I'm always stressed if it'll be good, or if there'll drunken family there, or something else.

Just fancy a quiet one in.

A quiet one in is exactly what we do here. It's just mum, the cat and me. Plus a friend always drops by for a and a slice of something sweet on her way home from a long walk on the coast with her dogs. And a picnic lunch - something for her and something for the doggos.

She always gets invited by another friend to have Christmas dinner with them and their family in one of the pubs in the village, but she always declines, mainly because she says the others drink too much and then it's not much fun when it comes to trying to enjoy the food or socialise coherently.