Deck the halls with bows of Holly, mistletoe, tinsel, thousands of flashing fairy lights, snow globes, garlands of poinsettias, angels, reindeer, wreaths, candles and glitter – you betchya! I’m in!
I am completely hooked on Christmas decorations. Well more specifically Christmas trees. Actually if I was honest, any form of glitter will do! It is the most visible of my ‘More’ issues. Luckily only a seasonal affliction, although I always have a big battle with myself, come 12th night to put it all away. I really struggle not to leave the whole lot up all year. I have to admit that most years, bits and pieces do get left in situ to become part of the general clutter! Just yesterday some of last year’s left-over Christmas stuff finally got, not actually put away, but re-assigned to fit this year’s scheme!
There! The cats out of the bag – I have started all-ready.
“What’s your point? Halloween’s well over!”
Down with the pumpkins and spider webs and up with the trees and robins—I say!
Very soon shops will be fusion decorating for Christmas’een or Hallowistmas. Imagine the fun, dunking for Hallowistmas puddings and trawling round the neighborhood in fancy dress to get presents, singing such favorites as We Three Witches of Dunsanane are and Oh Pumpkin head, Oh Pumpkin head, how bright you eyes are shining. These festivities would begin in early September and finishing just before St. Patrick’s Easter Month! (Keep an eye open for a huge, drunken, green bunny called Dermot throwing chocolate liqueurs at people.)
I have lived in the Southern Hemisphere for …em, well, a long time now and I still can’t get used to Summer Christmasses. It’s just plain WRONG! Although the way the weather is here in Windy Wellington at the moment, we may well have a white Christmas yet!
I can handle the warmth, the festive sarong and jandles, even the salad for Christmas dinner but I can’t cope with the long hours of daylight. It just ruins the whole production. By the time it’s dark enough for the Christmas lights to sparkle and glitter it’s time to go to bed. Wah Wah! It may come as a bit of a shock to all of you shivering in the cold, to discover that I even miss the snow. Although, I have to say, only for the few romantic days round Christmas not for the other 6 months of winter.
Most towns here hardly bother with Christmas lights, apart from the fact that they are being run by a miserable collection of Scrooges who are too busy worrying about Holiday PCness, what would be the point? No-one is walking around in the middle of the night to see the glorious displays anyway. So we are stuck with tedious ‘designer’ holiday banners hanging from the lamp-posts. Yay! At least Wellington has managed red and green images of stylised candles this year which faintly festive.
Yes! I know there are a goodly number of issues in this paragraph, so you lot can discuss them or comment!
What do you think about PC “holidays” Bring back CHRISTMAS!! – My favourite hot chestnut (we don’t have those either)
What do you think about our civic “holiday” decorations responsibilities – should we pay for wonderland?
When I wer’t young, tree went up on’t 23rd Dec or there ‘bouts!
Well suffice it to say, that unless I get on with it early I just won’t get the Christmas vibe at all. So I don my best antlers, light up Rudolph nose, stick on Neil Diamond’s Christmas CD and start putting my trees up late Nov/early Dec.
Ok! Ok! I know it’s getting worse, I must admit this year is early, even by my standards but I’m just throwing up lame excuses for my problem! I have only one small tree so far. I still have at least 2 to go, one in the sitting room and one in The Grand Shrew’s downtown office (that’s a cracker!). Oh what the…. I make no more excuses, I luvvvvvvvv Christmas trees.
You Know, I have been laboring under the misapprehension that almost everyone from the southern hemisphere is just hanging out for a REAL Christmas, snow, lights, cold, dark etc. and that once they’d experienced the joy of a northern hemisphere Christmas they’d hate the hot version. WRONG, wrong, wrong, wrong!!!! Much to my extreme surprise I was completely WRONG! I know lots of people from here who have spent Christmas in the frozen north and just couldn’t wait to get back to the beaches and BBQ’s. As a general rule, everyone loves what they grew up with, fond childhood memories, whatever they are seem to dictate later preferences for Christmas traditions.
So what’s your idea of the best Christmas????? Favourite tradition?
Fab FREE Shrew Christmas Ecards
