It's just not Christmas until.....

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It's just not Christmas until I've put a pointsettia plant on my windowsill.
What's your ' it's just not Christmas until? .......
🌲🎁🌲

For me it's when the tree goes up and the decorations are out of the loft....
mince pies are made the baileys is out , the fire is on 😀😀 Happy days

Until I see the Coca Cola advert. I like to see all the supermarket adverts etc but its not Christmas until I've seen the Coca Cola one! :)

23. December - that's when all our Christmas decorations go up - all at once!

@knackeredcat

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Box_of_Delights_(TV_series)

First saw it as a child - it is pretty creepy and spooky in parts, but it has become an annual viewing tradition with us, final episode watched on Christmas Eve (with mulled wine)

The same for me. It's a brilliant series. I've just got it on DVD and I'm so excited to introduce DH to the whole saga 😊

After my eldest's birthday

I've watched Fanny Craddock Cooks for Christmas.

@DiamondBright - yes! Once seen never forgotten. I can't say I've ever felt the need to recreate anything on that series. And she's equally horridly snooty yet fabulous. 😆

The same for me. It's a brilliant series. I've just got it on DVD and I'm so excited to introduce DH to the whole saga 😊

Awww - we all watch it every year. Dh always says 'I'm not watching that bloody thing yet again - what's the point, we all know it off by heart by now!'. But he always does end up watching it . Dsis watches it with her lot too. We all had a Biox of Delights themed New Year's Eve together one year (with food mentioned in the series etc)

We've watched The Grinch. Little one discovered it last year and loved it so much that he cried when it went off Netflix in about April. I'm so excited to put it on for him, we're going to have a Grinch themed night and I've bought him some Grinch bedding!

Aw, I bet he'll love that @Smileatthesmallthings 🙂

The Late Late Toy show kicks off Christmas for me - and its on THIS FRIDAY
I'll be watching and putting up the tree!!

I've watched Fanny Craddock Cooks for Christmas

Oh yes

Her omlette with mincemeat filling ( is it a souffle omlette ? )
The choux pastries that you can keep for weeks in a tin and they're dry like cardboard
And the piping bag full of sausagemeat that she wedges up the business end of the turkey skin afer she's prised it off the bird with her bare hands ..........

For me Phillips schofields Christmas guide is a good marker, hoping it’s on again this year

The farmer down the road puts up the “Merry Christmas” sign in the field on the S bends.

He usually does this the first weekend of December.

Ken Bruce on radio 2 starts playing Christmas songs!
He puts it off for as long as possible.

the first of december

Decembet

Until I've made 'Christmas Breakfast' for my DC on 1st December. I make a special breakfast and prop their advent calendar up at their place. I'm doing snowman pancakes this year! ☃️

@lazylinguist

The same for me. It's a brilliant series. I've just got it on DVD and I'm so excited to introduce DH to the whole saga 😊

Awww - we all watch it every year. Dh always says 'I'm not watching that bloody thing yet again - what's the point, we all know it off by heart by now!'. But he always does end up watching it . Dsis watches it with her lot too. We all had a Biox of Delights themed New Year's Eve together one year (with food mentioned in the series etc)

A posset?

A posset?

I honestly had never even heard of such a thing until I watched The Box of Delights

Have you ever made one? I'm quite tempted to try...

Until we crack open the Quality Street - I don't think they're as nice as they used to be, but they are a lifelong Christmas-only treat

(We had lemon posset at our wedding reception - all the rugger buggers assumed it was a mousse and made large and loud moose gestures!)

It's not Christmas until someone cracks out the

I'm in Spain, Home Alone is on terrestrial - it's CHRIIIIISTMAAAAS!

Also just opened the first panettone and will go online and get DS' gift in a bit.

Also up to my eyeballs sewing gifts yippee!

I finish the big pre Christmas clean and declutter in time for the Christmas Radio Times coming out. I buy a (decaf) gingerbread latte (never drink coffee at any other time) and sit with the highlighter and the Radio Times. Once I've done that, we can go and choose a tree and start Operation Christmas.

First Sunday in Advent (tomorrow!)