Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
Well, do you enter into the spirit of things and brighten up the world? Or are you like a sober teenager at a party, pretending you are above all this?
Outdoor Christmas lights?
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
We will have one string of white lights around the front door to keep the kids happy.
Not too OTT.
Not too OTT.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I like my neighbours tree with tasteful lights around a tree that is almost as tall as our house, and I love turning into our road and seeing it from a distance especially on New Year's morning when we are coming back to the house in the dark.
And instead of putting up lights, I usually put Christmas bubbles in a tree. But I need some more.
And instead of putting up lights, I usually put Christmas bubbles in a tree. But I need some more.
Berk on a Bike
Veteran
- Location
- Yorkshire
I love outdoor Christmas lights. On other people's houses.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
My neighbour has outdoor lights, any more in the village would be just too much so I will not be putting any up, outside or inside
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deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Though I have no religious leanings in the orthodox sense, there's a rather enjoyable ''advent windows'' thing locally. Obviously, the best way of getting round all the windows is on a bike on a dry night.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
We don't have any, just a lit candle in the window on Christmas Eve. I think that comes from a Cornish sailors' tradition but I could be wrong. I love massive displays of lights, the cheesier the better. I go through the Boltons on my commute, a Kensington square where all the houses cost many millions of pounds. At Christmas, quite a few have extremely tasteful and expensive strings of lights draped all over their trees and bushes, but one house really stands out. It has a giant display of flashing, laughing Santas and other corny Christmas icons. It's just wonderful.
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
Blimey I know The Boltons - had to walk round there to get to one of the studios at our drama school. It always looked intimidatingly posh - in fact I think it may have become the most expensive street in London. Madonna had a house there - maybe it's hers!
I'm not big on the flashy tack but I have to say a bit of it cheers me up, and the incongruity in The Boltons would cheer me up no end. Imagine the tutting!Edit: I voted for the dismal Victorian novels but I love a few lights here and there. Not those horrid bright blue ones though - nasty.
I once saw a Christmas display with massive inflatable reindeer and lit up Santas and fake snow and whatever IN CALIFORNIA. It was quite hot.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Blimey I know The Boltons - had to walk round there to get to one of the studios at our drama school. It always looked intimidatingly posh - in fact I think it may have become the most expensive street in London. Madonna had a house there - maybe it's hers!
One side of the square seems to comprise of empty houses. Once in a blue moon there might be a small convoy of blacked-out Range Rovers waiting with big blokes with curly-whirlys jammed in their ears. Russian oligarchs? Who knows. I rather hope that the house with the cheesy Christmas bling lights is sticking up a massive two fingers.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I saw some very nice displays while out on a ride last night. with lots of blue and white themes. There's a house near to me that must've been one of the first outside light displays as he's put them up/out for 20 years as i can remember. Not just lights but moving displays as well. He starts to assemble the whole lot around mid November and he's still taking them down late January! A house on my round has lights out all year round. It's odd to see Christmas lights outside a house in July.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
My Father(would have been 100 today) made some little scenes of times biblical, like Journey of the Magi, etc, and made them with a cut out foreground, middle, and background, with lights between the foreground and background. Stunning three dimensional effect. We had an enclosed front porch with about 6 of them, and it was very subtle and nice.
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
@Gravity Aided, that's wonderful. I used to get Popular Mechanics when I was a kid and was taken to a gadget-lover's paradise. They had all kinds of dangerous stuff. There was a fantastic DIY scuba outfit cobbled together from scrap anaesthetic equipment. Bush mechanics at it's finest.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
The sort of things they inspired one to do.
I believe we built a pontoon boat from plans found therein,
just kids on the block, horsing around.
We launched it in the lake,
and it sank a while later.
We pulled it out and took it home to fix it,
parents laughing uproariously.
Bicycles were more our metier.
I believe we built a pontoon boat from plans found therein,
just kids on the block, horsing around.
We launched it in the lake,
and it sank a while later.
We pulled it out and took it home to fix it,
parents laughing uproariously.
Bicycles were more our metier.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
There is a house up our street that has so many Santas, reindeer and elves, plus lights - flashing and non flashing - that we reckon can be seen from space. We are one of the few dark houses. Fine on everyone elses homes, but not for me. I cannot afford to buy them and certainly couldn't afford the electric bill to run them.
