Are you jingling your bells on the doorstep at 6pm?

[Retiremental]

Or are you going to be grinching it ?

No

Am I what?

What fresh (made up) hell is this?

I dont have bells. I have cats with bells on their collars though so might give them a shake

Realistically though, how many people have a bell knocking around the house?

I do

2 of my Christmas decorations are circlets of those little bells in red gold and green. They sound like sleigh bells.

Still not going to stand on my doorstep at 6pm rattling them though.

Although I am tempted to bring them to midnight mass and rattle them furiously outside any houses that look like they may contain small children

I'll be at work. What a shame.

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-thousands-sign-up-to-christmas-eve-bell-ringing-campaign-to-spread-hope-and-togetherness-12169193

I thought the original idea was for people in tier 4, the ones who actually aren’t allowed to see any friends or family on Christmas Day.

@NastyBlouse

Realistically though, how many people have a bell knocking around the house?

How do you summon your OH without one?

Not bloody ringing it on the doorstep though.

The woman on the radio helpfully suggested filling a jar with metal nails which apparently sounds exactly like bells

I didn’t clap for carers and the bastard neighbours who did kept waking my baby and I won’t be doing this. Plenty of festive cheer in our home without this sort of nonsense and potentially upsetting someone who can hear the racket.

@soundsystem

Ha our youngest's nursery was giving us daily reminders about this. In the form of terrible poetry. For the past week.

I'm not sure if we own bells..

We'll be doing other festive things at the time so nit planning to, although I guess if everyone else is we'll run out to join in

Our nursery even went to the length of giving us bells

We will do it, our DD is nearly 2 and I've not subscribed to elf on the shelf or a Christmas Eve box. I think 30 seconds of jingling in the doorway isn't too much.

Why?

We have covid so giving it a miss as I don't think our neighbours would be too thrilled

No.

No.
I'd prefer the NHS to be well funded and am going out of my way to not catch the virus (no gym, haircut, restaurants, visitors etc).
Anyone who rings a bell will get hard stares from me if they then have visitors on Xmas day.

No

Oh people were making and selling jingle bells so nobody need miss out

@ImPrincessAurora

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-thousands-sign-up-to-christmas-eve-bell-ringing-campaign-to-spread-hope-and-togetherness-12169193

I thought the original idea was for people in tier 4, the ones who actually aren’t allowed to see any friends or family on Christmas Day.

It’s been around on FB for weeks, long before Christmas was cancelled.

@Mrsjayy

Isn't it for children to jingle for Santa or something? People kept trying to add me to a FB group. Bugger that !

Who are these numpties who keep trying to invent fresh mass-scale traditions from scratch. Parenting is busy enough and traditions are supposed to evolve and spread at their own speed. I hate manufactured fun.

Why would I get up at the crack of dawn to jingle bells outside my house? Is this a new thing, like cheering and clapping for the NHS? I don't think I have any hand bells anyway so, no.

6 PM @jessstan1 not AM

I thought the original idea was for people in tier 4, the ones who actually aren’t allowed to see any friends or family on Christmas Day.

Nah it's been a suggestion since November ! Tier 4 has only been a thing in England for 5 days

No , and definitely not a grinch .

Absolutely not.

I'll be inside, in front of the fire with a large Baileys.

@GroundAlmonds

6 PM *@jessstan1* not AM

Good job you weren’t planning to do it. You’d have looked a right numpty at 6am

It's just a bit of fun for the kids.
Have you not seen the bit of Elf where they all start singing to spread Christmas cheer?!
We'll be ringing! Merry Christmas to all - ringers or none

Absolutely not. And it's nothing to do with "grinching it". It's not compulsory and it's fecking freezing out there.