Ringing bells on Christmas Eve

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Have you heard about thus the plan is to ring bells outside at 6pm on Christmas Eve fb.me/e/2ZmVN5A8h

I think it would be really sweet and bring the country together if we played this US vietnam war era psy ops soundtrack at 3AM in the streets everynight

We will be doing it. It’s a couple of mins fun for the kids during a pretty shit Christmas. Mine like looking out for the sleigh on Christmas Eve but the International Space Station won’t be flying by on Christmas Eve this year.

Awww what a load of BahHumbugs on this thread! What harm can it do? Little ones have a bit of extra excitement after what’s been a really weird year.

Cor there are some miserable buggers on this thread. Its like someone has pissed on your Christmas Dinner.

We will be taking part for our 3 year old. Its for like 2 minutes on Christmas eve and will be lovely.

Nah .
Didn’t clap and I’m sure as hell not ringing a bell .

Would be lovely if it was just all the Church bells but not a general racket. Having said that the Olympic bell ring in 2012 was quite good fun.

@Flavabobble

I've trained the cat to come for his food at the ringing of a bell - he's going to be a bit confused, or think all his Christmases have come at once (See what I did there?)

Santa, not seen once during this pandemic. Has certainly not earned himself a bell ring.

JK, we'll be joining in. Esp if the pub is closed. Our cul de sac is really sociable so it'll be nice.

I won't be doing it. My kids are in their 20's and they'd think I'd gone nuts 😁
But yes, if they were little then why the hell not? This year has been really tough and it would be nice to do something a bit fun with small children. I don't see why that's such a bad thing.

Skimmed thread -
So where is this idea coming from? I've heard nothing about it till this thread.

< lives under rock doesn't use FB>

that's better :)

I will proceed with caution.

I remember there being a similar idea for the start of the Olympics, or the start of the running with the flame or something like that. The instruction was to ring a bell or make a similar noise outside your house at 8 am. I grabbed my biggest saucepan and a metal spoon and ran out of the house on to the drive making as much noise as I could. Then looked up and down the street to see who else was joining in.... Nobody! There was just a very startled looking passer-by who hastily crossed to the other side of the road.

@5foot5 funny as. Much needed laugh.

Must have been absolutely mortifying.

No. No no no no! Not this! Gahhhhhh.

Anyone else thinking of The Polar Express?

Not in this house.

It's a lovely idea. This year has been gloomy enough so I want every bit of joy I can get. My DS is a bit old for it now, but I'm going to ring a bell and listen to all the other bells being jingled by excited little children.

I feel this needs to be in bold home bargains have jingle bells for £1.99

I've ordered a bell especially for this.

Ffs no won’t be doing it.

What a load of guff. Sick of this shit now.

No, Bell ringing and elf on a shelf can bog off! We have our own Christmas ‘traditions’ and we’re 6 years deep into the Santa lie now and the kids will want to know how santa managed to deliver the gifts last year when we didn’t ring any bells.

A very silly idea, and will not be followed by anyone of intelligence.

It's easy to answer kids questions about Santa though @Brown76

You just say "I don't know, it's magic isn't it?"