It's getting to look a lot like Christmas

[girlyswot]

Which in November, isn't my top choice. However, last night saw the start of Christmas decoration in my house. Have I mentioned that I love where I'm living?






And a close up of their chilly little faces...




What happened was that the Christmas decorations are stored in a cupboard up on my floor. So when I was coming down, I picked up the last couple of bags. As I was coming down the stairs, my landlady asked what I'd got.

Me: (looking in one of the bags) A dead bird. And some fairy lights.

Landlord: (also not taking this seriously) There should be more than one dead bird.

Landlady: (holding up one of the little dolls with wire round its neck) Do you think these would look cute hanging from a tree?'

Landlord: (several minutes later) I think Ros is hyperventilating.

The phone rings. While the landlady goes to answer it, I hide half a dozen of the dolls in various places around the room - on the snowman's hat, over the toy soldier's drum, in among the carollers, in a pumpkin, in Santa's sack (did I mention, she really likes Christmas decorations?)

The evening is spent finding the dolls and wiring them to the tree, which then has to be hidden in the den because none of us can look at it without laughing. I'm the last to go to bed so before I do, I take one of the dolls and attach it to the kitchen cupboard, so it hangs down over the oven. But when I got upstairs and opened my fridge - well, I admit they won that round.

The chilly little dolls are now hanging by the fireplace...

Comments

[peverell.livejournal.com]

Lol! Your landlord and lady sound like fun people and you all clearly get on like a house on fire!

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Apparently the dolls were in the fridge even before I started hiding them downstairs. So we're both equally mad.

[peverell.livejournal.com]

lol! That's brilliant! Their faces remind me of something but I can't think what. At least they don't have the inane Barbie smile--there's something freaky about that to me.

[crumplehornedki.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you get to live with insane people!

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Insane people are the best kind to live with!

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

I can't face Christmas decorations until about a week before Christmas. I'm so bored with them if I have to start looking at them four weeks before hand! Dave has to stop me taking them down early too. This year, we'll be away so I won't bother at all, apart from the advent calendar. It won't stop Little Tyke, ever-hopeful, mass producing them and, somehow, I'm going to be making Rudolph cupcake today.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

We always used to put our tree up on Christmas Eve. My dad planted 20 or so when I was little so we could just go out and pick the one that had grown best that year. Towards the end we had quite a lot of very manky trees, but it was fun.

Here, everyone starts Christmas as soon as Thanksgiving is over.

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

It starts really early here. A lot of the schools break up next week so they do all the Christmas stuff early and the TV ratings seaon finishes at the end of November so we start getting Christmas specials then. Argh!

[peverell.livejournal.com]

Really? Oh heck--that would do my head in!

Every other advert on the tv is for perfume or a toy promotion. I'm waiting for the first advert for next year's summer holidays. :P They used to appear on Boxing Day but I suspect they'll be early this year. ::shakes head::

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

We don't even have Thanksgiving to hold the start until the end of November. It's been about two weeks since the annual Christmas parade bringing Santa into Sydney. There are Santa's grottoes in every shopping centre where you can have your little darlings photoed on Santa's knee. And it's still November.

[grandma-kate.livejournal.com]

The dolls are a hoot (my daughter-in-law from Atlanta is beginning to have an effect on my otherwise non-Southern English). She is a doll and bear maker so she would probably even like them. It's funny how Christmas brings out the need for familiar things.

Our neighbors already put up icicle lights on their eaves and leave them on all night. I will not let dear Oatmeal clamber about on ladders outside, so we will have no lights until my tall son and grandsons come the Thursday before Christmas. By then dear Oatmeal will have put out all the massive inflatable decorations he buys every year after Christmas so our yard will look like a display section at a big box store. Sigh! All I have done so far is put slender lighted trees on either side of the front door as a token decoration. They are in big copper pots with suns on them so can be left up (but not lit) after Christmas.

Our foyer and the display case facing the front door are still filled with about eighty of the hundred turkeys but we have removed the ones from the front porch. The turkeys will all be put in their proper bins after the cleaning people get to see them this Saturday.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Kate - I love that whatever you do, you clearly do it to the full!