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Was that for last Christmas or the coming one?

I was singing Slade's 'Merry Christmas' to myself yesterday, but that was because I saw a man wearing a hat like Noddy Holder used to wear.
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I didn't sing any songs yet ;) - although choirs usually begin to practise for Christmas concerts around this time of year. And I didn't notice any Christmas decorations at my local supermarket yesterday though it's usually around these weeks that they are being put up in Germany - well in my city at least :? Always makes me mad. (it's like Easter decoration are all over the place in January at the latest! :shock: ) Sometimes you even have Halloween decorations and Christmas cakes and the likes together from the end of August until the end of October... :roll:
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Katharine wrote:Was that for last Christmas or the coming one?
The thread title should confirm that! :wink:
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Funnily enough, this thread comes up earlier every year :wink: :

2013 - Started on 30th September.

2014 - Revived on 20th August.

2015 - Revived on 5th August.
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That's interesting Anita.... oh dear, I wonder where it will all end! :?
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That's far too logical for me to have worked out Nigel. :wink:

Anita, that's hilarious. I shall start a thread in February next year when the shops are selling off all their old stock. :lol:
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I found myself singing Christmas carols today for no particular reason... :D
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Nothing to do with what you're reading here I suppose? :wink:
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No, I was at work and they just started coming to me. 8) Including this one, which I learned only last year... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mYXto0x4K0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Courtenay wrote:No, I was at work and they just started coming to me. 8) Including this one, which I learned only last year... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mYXto0x4K0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Katharine wrote: I shall start a thread in February next year when the shops are selling off all their old stock. :lol:
Good timing to pick up 2016's Christmas presents :D
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floragord wrote: Charming, charming, I love the Sussex Carol.
Yes, for some reason it's one I never learned as a child. Some of the really wintery carols - In the Bleak Midwinter and See Amid the Winter's Snow, for example - we don't tend to hear much in Australia at Christmas (for obvious reasons), but I don't know why I missed out on the Sussex Carol. I must have heard it a few times in Carols from King's, but just never latched onto it until I heard an incredibly beautiful version of it on Classic FM late last year (which I unfortunately haven't been able to find on YouTube - it wasn't King's College, but a smaller choir with both men and women).

I often buy Christmas presents early if I happen to find something during the year that I just know would be perfect for a specific family member or friend - same with buying birthday presents, too. If you know someone special would love that particular gift, best to pounce on it early and keep it till the occasion, rather than leaving it and then either forgetting it or finding it's not available any more when the time comes.
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Courtenay wrote:I often buy Christmas presents early if I happen to find something during the year that I just know would be perfect for a specific family member or friend - same with buying birthday presents, too. If you know someone special would love that particular gift, best to pounce on it early and keep it till the occasion, rather than leaving it and then either forgetting it or finding it's not available any more when the time comes.
I often said that to myself and I even tried to do that but... I don't know. Unconsciously I think that Christmas wouldn't really be Christmas without all this last-minute stressing about finding gifts and standing in gigantic queues everywhere. Don't you think? :mrgreen:

On the other hand, I can now announce that I am the proud owner of Christmas cakes sold at our local Bahlsen outlet shop :) Bahlsen is a local biscuit and cake manufacturer and its products, specifically those Christmas cakes, have sometimes been sold out at the end of November!!! :shock: Already happened to me once. And now I belong to those people I usually mock :lol:
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I don't blame you, Anne Henriette - they do make wonderful Christmas cakes and other goodies in Germany. A few years ago, just before Christmas, a German friend here in England invited me over for dinner and gave me a real German Lebkuchen to take home. It was delicious, but also so rich I could only eat a little at a time, so it lasted me into the New Year! :D
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Christmas comes round far too early every year. I remember as a child waiting what seemed like years, just for Christmas every year. Now it's coming around much too quickly. :|

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