The one with the brief glimpse of summer. It’s countdown to Christmas thread 3!

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Here it is!

What were we at 247?

lol @Firefly re the turning it on and off again
Glad your hayfever not too bad atm my dear ,
it is such a misery, l don't know how the children can sit their exams suffering from it.
Tea calling

Thanks Mrs, I'm really fine, just worried how I come across to other people.

MrsMad surely after your beef buggers you mean you are having a quickie and salad 😂

While I was pottering around town I popped into Home Bargains. I bought some lovely battery powered lights
here and some gorgeous glass tea light holders. I'm planning to use them to decorate the garden table for our BBQ but I did buy them with one eye on my Christmas table. The tea light holders were only 69p each

quickie and a salad 😂

@Woolly lol quickie & salad
Those lights and tea light holders are just so pretty Woolly , love them!
Perfect , you come across just great m'dear , one of the gels

DD's in bed now. 😴

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Morning all
Been up since half 4 , can't sleep didn't help the Magpies fighting on the lawn
Doing more cleaning today , going to tackle the dining room and the presents that are building up there , l say every year l am not going to do it again and l never learn. Nevermind , naice cuppa tea and off to do food shopping , have a great day everyone

Half 4 is pretty early! My alarm goes off at 5.15 and that's bad enough!

Another beautiful day here. We are going to be so disappointed when the weather turns!

Last day of work this week. Wooooo!

l know Fluffy. l will be hanging later
It must be brilliant your 4 day week hope the Hay fever is better too.
Hubbs just bought me another cuppa bless him am watching the BBC2 Canterbury Cathedral series , they are preparing for Christmas and it is just lovely, reminds me why we are all on this thread , our genuine love obsession for Christmas
Have a great day everyone

Morning! Mrs the DC are waking up at 5.30 every morning because of the light in their room. I'm going to have to start sending DD to bed at 7.40 so she gets enough sleep!

Morning! Been a busy week...sitting with a cup of tea in bed before I do a mad dash run around to get ready for work.

I'm off for a full weekend!!! Will start planning Christmas!!!! So exciting[santa]

We have blackout blinds combined with blackout curtains and they still let some light in. Thankfully 6.15 is the earliest they generally get up!

Sounds exciting, Wheely!

Oh, they don't disturb me, I just get the overtired strops all the way to school.

I'd want to try to avoid those! Overtired kids are just irritating!

Hence trying to get them to bed earlier.

Hence having blackout blinds!

We have massive windows, but I'll look into it.

Have you seen the stick on ones like Gro Blinds? They're actually really good. And quite big! We swore by then before we got roller blinds.

Bath have you a cellar? Cellars are very dark.....just saying😉

U shattered today?

We love our blackout stuff too. We have a gro blind and DH bought some stuff off the internet that reflects the heat back out as DS's room is on a south facility corner so gets the sun all day and it's been 23 degrees in there the last few, and that makes it dark as well.

June is when I start with the proper planning as well, Wheely.

No, we live in a cellar! In a basement flat.

I'll check out Gro Blinds Fluffy, thanks.

Picked the DC up, went to the Sainsbury's café, DS2 had cheese and tomato pizza, a jam doughnut and a slice of carrot cake, DD had cottage pie and peas and a chocolate chip cookie, I had lasagne and salad and an ice cream sandwich. 😋🍕🍩🍰🍪🍧

DS2 will go to bed at 7.30, DD will go at 7.40 if he's asleep. 😴

Evening all.. I miss out on all these chats while I’m at work ☹️... we have blackout blinds everywhere we are a family who like our darkness lol.. kids never had night lights etc, even now at bedtime every light is off! Woe betide anyone coming in late and turning one on!! No cooking tonight it’s kebab and salad as the boys are watching the England match.

We have big windows too and used to have to use two gro blinds to cover the window. The dc are better now the blackout curtains work fine on their own.

I'm making a chocolate tray bake for the PTA cake sale tomorrow, they're also having a mufti day. 😋🍰👗👖👕