* I wish it could be Christmas every day * - It's the 2017 Christmas Chatter Thread

Yay a, glad to see so many posting. It will keep me spurred on to keep chatting. I also felt I hadnt much to add. Ive just been working away.
I did get a Sun holiday, infact I was greedy and got 2. One for the Easter school holidays in Morecombe just a cheap £76 one (mon-fri), then another on the 3rd of July in Hartlepool. It's the beginning of the Scottish school hols, so £15 pp, then they jumped upto £17pp the night we leave. The kids loved Hartlepool last year. Such beautiful beaches and caves, we live near the beach on the west coast, so was nice to be on the east for a change. Decided the better we know and go back to explore a bit further. My car broke down on the way down last year, so we limped it to the caravan then didn't travel far.

I decided I missed my Christmas lights, so bought some twigs with fairy lights to sit at the window at my front door. Not fully Christmassy, but they make me smile when I come home in the dark as ive timed them to come on, and when I go to the loo and pass them lol.


Free- can't wait to see the pic of your chair. It sounds lovely. Ive just got a beige poang chair in my room, it makes a good clothes hanger .

Murie- sorry to hear about your BIL. X

Thanks all x
Vulpix thanks for the info on paint, crud you didn't get a sun holiday. Ive got up this morning with the good intention of touching up marks on the wall in the living room where the dog shakes the mud off- pale grey and mud don't mix! All Ive done so far is de -grime the cooker hob but I will get to it later so when you are doing your sanding think of me painting (I was going to say touching up there but it sounded wrong on a lot of levels!)- that will spur us both on!


Nic well done on getting those hols booked! I have my twig tree on and it fills the gap left by the Christmas lights. I have wound some white roses into it and plan to change them with the seasons- I bought some red ones (more pink really) form the poundshop at the weekend which I will use for valentines.


Newthrift (and princesskitty if you are reading) hope the bumps are growing nicely and that you both start to feel better and brighter soon to enjoy the pregnancies x


Free- Im loving the idea of you as a Bond villain in your chair- need a cat to complete the look? I can loan the little horror out (except he is grey not white but it would be a good contrast!)


Peppa- I did enjoy the glass of wine (also the packet of salt and vinegar crisps I had afterwards- don't worry I was still within my 'syns').


This morning I have the dreaded physio and after that back to my painting. I need to pop to argos to pick up the voucher that the manager 'forgot'to give me the other day when I bought DHs and moms hue light sets. I asked DS to pick them up for me as there is a code on the website for 25% off homewares (which bulbs etc come under). When he went into store they were adamant that the code didn't work so he came home and I rang customer services who told me yes it did and to go back to store and speak to the manager. at this point DS (like most men) did a runner and wouldn't get involved so I had to go. The manager knew all about it but still couldn't get it to work (and tried to give me all the excuses under the sun as to why it wouldn't). In the end she discounted it manually but didn't give me the voucher (which I was sure I should have but I couldn't get the page to load in the shop to check.) I decided I wouldn't challenge it cus I wasn't sure and I had already had the £30 discount (came to £120 for the two sets). But Ive been thinking and I think I should have it so I rang and she remembered me straight away and said yes the till didn't print it out for some reason (yeah right!). To get them between us we have had to make 2 journeys, 3 phone calls and a bit of hassle so I think Im going to press ahead and go in store to pick it up. Then I can use the voucher towards another bulb (they are on offer at £14.99 each at the mo).
Right that's my day planned......!

Morning everyone, well i got replies from both sisters and both understood and were really nice about it, so i am glad i did it and i can stop worrying about it all now. Thankyou everyone for giving me the kick up the bum to do it/confidence to do it. I am so cold this morning and really fancy making Brownies so i am going to go check i have all the ingredients

PEPPAPIG aww i hope the meds work for your DDs little dog, can he still be exercised? Did you hear anything back about your Santa Paws donations?

MURIE you havent brought the thread down at all my lovely x Oh god poor Bailey wouldnt last 5 mins with the dog bless him. Can i ask what are hue lights? Sounds like you have been given the right run around. Good luck at the physio!

SPRINGDREAMS ooh you will love lapland and im sure DS will love it too!

NEWTHRIFT how are you doing/feeling?

VULPIX haha like a bond villain i love it :rotfl:you have just reminded me i must look for a bird outline for my craft, i am in the middle of a Becky Higgins christmas scrapbook that DD1 got me for christmas and its taking up all my time atm. Sorry you didnt get your holiday

NIC ooh well done on getting two holidays sorted and for a bargain

04624181 yes i am doing a bird challenge craft, sorry to hear you have had bad news

FREE the RSPCA mentioned us in their Christmas post on facebook and the other local animal rescue were really grateful when we dropped the stuff if though I must admit it would have been nice to receive an email to say thanks as I could have posted it on the Santa Paws group. Never mind though.

0462 nice to see you, hope work calms down a bit. I'm afraid I'm guilty of a severe lack of action on the challenge front. I like the topic of birds but just haven't been able to motivate myself to actually do anything (hangs head in shame):o

MURIE I don't blame you for discharging yourself, life's too shot to spend it waiting for something you don't need. I am definitely in awe of your mum and the way she's emraced all the new technologies.

MRSINVISIBLE hope DD got a good result today and can downsize the moon boot!

Nice to see you back KERRIGT.

DD coming later tonight ready for the day of fun tomorrow, still don't know what's happening but my sis has messaged to say we might want to shave our legs lol. I'll let you know how it goes