It's a bit like cuckoos...

[mrph]

On my way home from work on Monday 22nd, I spotted a house with full Christmas decorations up. Is that the first sighting of the year?

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[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

stonebender's partner starts decorating on Nov. 1st. She's a lunatic, but she's an adorable lunatic.

[http://users.livejournal.com/ree_/]

Nope, you should see Hen Lane up our way. Chavtastic in Neon. Been up since early November.

[rosenkavalier.livejournal.com]

A couple of houses round here put them up over the weekend. I was vaguely hoping they might serve as target designators for some sort of airstrike...

[miss-blu.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, yes.

Oh god, it's that time of year again...where townie families compete with their neighbours to see who can affix the largest neon-flashy-light-things to their crappy council houses, in a 'celebration' of all that is xmas (like Santa in a helicopter...riiiiiight).

You should try getting a train to Brum of a December nighttime. Going through Tile Hill is really quite spectacular - this tiny, backwater road is transformed into a veritable runway with xmas lights...like the death strip at the Berlin Wall or something...

/ bitching

[cyborg-geisha.livejournal.com]

I saw one yesterday too.. It. Was. Hideous. *shudder* :/

[deenial.livejournal.com]

I've got every one beat... I saw some Xmas decorations up in early January this year!

[keris.livejournal.com]

They're up around my cycle route to work already, hurray! and there's one near home too with lots of lights, it was very shiny.

I am being mean though and making Mark wait til it's December to decorate the office.

[jambon-gris.livejournal.com]

yup fraid so. The first garish lights are to be seen in didcot, and the local coffee shop was playing fucking a space man came traveling by Chris fucking Deburg

[mhw.livejournal.com]

*shrug* It pleases them and hurts nobody, so what's the problem?

PS: the_g_man says the suggested place and time suit him; see you tonight!

[juudes.livejournal.com]

*shrug* It pleases them and hurts nobody, so what's the problem?

Try living next door to it: like trying to get to sleep in a disco. Plus you've got people stopping their cars in the middle of the road to gawp at it all, or not stopping but just driving past and not paying attention to the road.

It's Just Nasty!

[mhw.livejournal.com]

At least you don't have to live near a football stadium.

[http://users.livejournal.com/ree_/]

the new one or the old one? We have the pleasure of living practically in the shadow of the new one. I moved from Villiers Street to get away from the existing one!!

[mhw.livejournal.com]

The new one, alas. We're in Houldsworth Crescent, just by the railway crossing.

Bastards. If we'd known they were going to build that thing, we'd have found a home somewhere else.

[http://users.livejournal.com/ree_/]

we're just off parkville so you're much nearer than we are. What a mare. Have you been told whether you'll get a residents parking scheme yet? It's going to be murder all over our side isn't it?

[goth-tart.livejournal.com]

I spotted Xmas lights up outside a house down my bf's road on Monday evening. Not sure how long they'd been up and whether the full regalia was inside but they were definitely indulging in Xmas spirit from the outside at least!

[mhw.livejournal.com]

No, they haven't told us. Though we did get the PR 'news'sheet through our door a couple of weeks back. Not that I'd trust anything they told us anyway.

And our Council Tax is going toward paying for the bloody thing.

I can't wait for the housing market to get into a state where getting away from here is practical.

[http://users.livejournal.com/ree_/]

Indeed. Exactly the way I feel. We had that gumph through a couple of weeks ago too. Looked like a pile PR-ollocks to me. I *will* shoot ANY football fan that tries to park in the close. And there will be signs up outside my house to say so.

[geekchick]

A house near my office had the full-on Christmas thing going on November 1. I'm pretty sure that's the earliest I've ever seen anyone put lights up (that hadn't been left up all year, that is).

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

Some houses round our way have got their lights installed all over their roofs (rooves?), but at least they're not actually lit up yet.

One house is thus far much more subdued than last year (they had an 8ft inflatable snowman on the garage roof), but the house next door to them is for sale, so I suspect that the neighbours might have Had A Word.