Christmas 2025 🎄

[Carlo1460]

Let the festivities commence!

[davidwalton (Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)]

Although you beat me to it, I’m gonna try and get Hot Chip on the top of the tree and have him stay there for longer than the 30 seconds last year before I got the “that is not going on the top of the tree” speech

[Carlo1460]

Maybe plonk him in the tree so they can’t moan too much

I even wrapped some presents yesterday which is very not like me, I’m usually a last minute Christmas Eve type guy.

[davidwalton (Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)]

That’s the kind of setup I’d prefer. Like:

But instead, this is more realistic:

And to add insult to injury, the girls will have cracked open the Baileys and be on it while listening to Shakey on volume 11 while watching me ‘do the lights’

[Carlo1460]

Keiran: “I’ll do the tree, you don’t touch any of it”.

Also Kieran after untangling the lights “why did you just sit and watch me stress about the 600 lights and the 100 baubles!”

Just doing what you asked

[teflon]

Real tree for us, which is another reason for me wanting to hold off for another week. Though given they’re already in the shops I guess that extra week isn’t going to make a huge amount of difference in when they’ll drop their needles.

Relevant listening:

BBC Radio 4 - Sliced Bread, Christmas Trees

(The conclusion is very much ‘it depends’)

[davidwalton (Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)]

Let’s see how long this lasts before the take-down order is issued:

[foolhandy]

The fairies put our tree and decorations up on Christmas Eve afternoon, just before we have a picy tea and open our presents. That’s the Hungarian tradition of Nagykarácsony, “Big Christmas” we go by. (“Little Christmas” is New Year’s Day.) Usual gluttony & regret on December 25th.

All comes down on January 6th.

Personally…

Christmas 2025

[foolhandy]

[BT1]