Christmas Lights

[codswallop]

I dont set ,yself upa s the Queen of taste - so chill if you are, but I have decided that we ( ie me and the boys) wasnt lights outside our house this year.

Saw some nice ice blue ones in good old lakeland - or white - whaddaya think?

dont like those nets of lights but did snigger at the Santa train (80 quid!!) at Homebase.. Tee hee

Boys LOVE naff lights.

Mears, you don't like Hallowe'en either do you? Are you really Victor Meldrew ?

Question for all you outside light people, (stupid probably) how do you plug them in? Do you have to drill holes in window frames and things?

We usually get ours the Saturday before the Saturday before Christmas - then it sits outside in a bucket of water for a bit before it comes in and gets decorated.

Comes down on 12th night but I know what coddy means, it does look a bit empty and pointless after the 25th.

We have lights outside our house and I love them. Want some at the top as well....icicle ones but its just such a pain getting them up and then down again! Neighbour across has so many lights I dont need to turn my inside ones on at night..lol

DId you have a good meetup coddy and beetroot?

Well I do like to have decorations up till 12th day of Christmas, have to say. Next door likes to take theirs down early too. I don't see the point of being in such a haste and finishing early - reminds me of something else actually

Coddy, haven't read all messages, but we moved last year into a house with a big Christmas tree outside the kitchen doors! We put lots of lights on it and it was GREAT! Will be doing it again soon....can't wait

ooohhh now i see some of you have them out, i'll be in the attic tomorrow
(not for any reason, i just like it up there)

Not buying Christmas tree until 12-14 Dec weekend because of needle drop but might put some other bits out beforehand - eg garland on fireplace. Have never considered outside lights but might be nice. Will speak to DH.

LOl... the flex comes in our bedroom window and then the window (plastic my dears) can shut with only a few Mm to spare - good to keep dh's smells down.

soooooooooooo, I can turn them on and off from bed!

the blue ones are great

We normally put our flex in through our garage but its being converted into another room so no room for flex to go through. Will have to try and put them all through upstairs window like you do codswallop and leave window open. Only problem is my bedroom window keeps getting a lot of condensation on it for some reason.

I can shut our downstairs window on top of the flex for the lights. I guess it's because they're old wooden windows with that foam strip insulation tape on the edges.

We would normally put our decorations up the week of Christmas (20th/21st Dec ish) and leave them till the 6th.

But we tend to spend the Christmas fortnight at my parents so there's not much point in having a tree if we won't see it

We do a have a gorgeous big fabric advent calendar though and I smuggled in some teeny £1.50 fairy lights from Ikea which are currently draped around some willow (or 'the dead things" as dh likes to call them).

Ive just bought some of the icicle lights for the top of my house, they are really cheap at Asda. Just have to persuade my DH to get up a ladder and put them up now!