Christmas Watch 2025

[Drago]

Leaflet left with the bin bags the start of last month, giving details on where you could get rid of your Christmas tree.

The embankment of the A45 near Raunds in the dark

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Post Ch****mas Watch 2025 has started early as well.
From the front page of the local rag's website...
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Ours just goes back in the attic.

 

[classic33]

The embankment of the A45 near Raunds in the dark

Be a long way to go to get rid of a tree.

 

[Webbo2]

Mrs W got a text from Debs our old next door neighbour to say she had just put up her Christmas tree. Apparently she was bored and fed up with the weather.
However Mrs W and Debs usually start recommending Christmas movies to each other from about June onwards.

 

[PeteXXX]

The embankment of the A45 near Raunds in the dark

I thought that's where you got it from 🎄 😂

 

[Reynard]

No Christmas tree in the Drago household this year. With an energetic labrador puppy in the house I suspect it wouldn't last long!

A small 2ft one on a table. That's what I do, to keep things out of range of curious paws. Plus it saves having to rearrange the furniture.

 

[Drago]

I'd have to buy a table first!

 

[Reynard]

Plenty of fairy lights starting to appear in windows around here.

Have to confess I did succumb to buying from the Christmas range in Tesco this evening - two mini truckles of cheese.

 

[cookiemonster]

M+S here in HK have just put their Xmas range on sale.

 

[Webbo2]

I came home from my bike ride to find Mrs W watching Christmas with the cranks.😳

 

[classic33]

 

[secretsqirrel]

I came home from my bike ride to find Mrs W watching Christmas with the cranks.😳

Festive guilty pleasure for me that film. I find time to watch it most years.

 

[Beebo]

The embankment of the A45 near Raunds in the dark

When I was living in a yuppie flat in the city, my balcony overlooked the Thames.
So we waited for a high tide and then launched it off the balcony into the river.
Probably illegal but it was 25 years ago.

 

[Dogtrousers]

The embankment of the A45 near Raunds in the dark

A story of Christmas trees going in the other direction...

In the 1980s my parents lived not so far from a dual carriageway main road which had conifers planted on the embankment.

My mum decided that an entire Christmas tree was overkill, so each December she would nip out with a pair of loppers and come back with a substantial chunk of conifer.

 

[Electric_Andy]

A story if Christmas trees going in the other direction...

In the 1980s my parents lived not so far from a dual carriageway main road which had conifers planted on the embankment.

My mum decided that an entire Christmas tree was overkill, so each December she would nip out with a pair of loppers and come back with a substantial chunk of conifer.

yes my Grandad used to do that in a local woods which was privately owned but the owners didn't maintain it or care about it. I think it was an actual christmas tree rather than conifers though. Of course with no root base, it would start dying soon into January and we took it out the window, then had to hoover up 3 inches of needles!