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Christmas Lights - Steve Cooke (11th Nov 2025 - 18:47:40) I know times have changed and Christmas starts much sooner nowadays but I do find it distasteful and disrespectful when I see residential buildings fully decked out with Christmas lights etc even before Remembrance Day. It’s definitely in poor taste.

Re: Christmas Lights - paul (11th Nov 2025 - 21:09:55) Hi Steve, I don't think it is disrespectful for local residents to display Christmas illuminations. It is their own home, and most will support the Poppy Appeal etc.. Christmas, is a Christian celebration, means different meanings to different families, and others. Rejoice, we have something happy to look forward to, and celebrate with families, and friends. It is not a disapproval point of the calendar year.

Re: Christmas Lights - D (12th Nov 2025 - 08:06:19) Though I know there are many genuinely religious people who celebrate Christmas for what it is, the birth of Christ, I think the Slade Christmas song sums up perfectly what Christmas has become. The very first thing you hear on the song is the ringing of a cash register. My church is packed on Christmas Eve with young families I have never seen before, where are they the rest of the year? Cue the onslaught of D bashers. 😀

Re: Christmas Lights - Jen (13th Nov 2025 - 11:52:57) @D - you've got the wrong song! The cash register sound is at the beginning of "I wish it Could be Christmas Every Day", by Wizzard.

Re: Christmas Lights - D (13th Nov 2025 - 12:28:56) Absolutely correct, Jen, I stand corrected. Glad it was you who spotted my error cos the D bashers would have had a field day with that one. Both excellent records but after over fifty years they're wearing a bit thin now, but how could anyone possibly come up with better songs than that.

Re: Christmas Lights - Jen (13th Nov 2025 - 18:12:57) You're right there, D! Almost all of the best Christmas songs are from the 1970s. I remember bopping around the school classroom in the autumn of 1973, singing those words from Slade: "does your granny always tell ya, that the old songs are the best? Then she's up and rock 'n rollin' with the rest"! Now I am that granny - and yes, the old songs are definitely the best! 😂

Re: Christmas Lights - M (16th Nov 2025 - 07:44:30) Completely agree with you Steve Cooke. @Paul, it is not about "i"ll do whatever I like on my side " its about respect and consideration of others esp your neighbours. Wouldn't want to live next door to you with your attitude.

Re: Christmas Lights - Ian (16th Nov 2025 - 10:36:52) It seems to me a lot of people who put their Christmas lights up in November are on some “look at me” ego trip. Don’t get me wrong, I think Christmas decorations and cheer are a welcome break from winter gloom but November is too early and actually diminishes for me the impact of Christmas.

Re: Christmas Lights - D (16th Nov 2025 - 12:06:45) Some pubs have fairy lights behind the bar all year round. (Are we still allowed to say "fairy"?)

Re: Christmas Lights - er (16th Nov 2025 - 14:35:37) For what it's worth, I was always told the correct and dignified time is the start of Advent, which I think falls on the last Sunday of November. Bear in mind this is called 'The Holidays Season' nowadays with good cause, there are many diverse groups putting up lights at wintertime Perhaps it should really be called 'The Season of Lights' as it's the pagan festivals that influence us all, a time of light in darkness, of hope in the coming hunger and bitter cold, when traditionally many of your family and friends wouldn't make it to see the light of spring. For Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists celebrating Divali (this year was the end of October) to Jews lighting the menora each night to celebrate the Temple miracle of lights, it's the week before Christmas, for Pagans it's midwinter, the green tree of hope and the warmth of the solitary fire. Nowadays if course, it's the masses of faded Christians putting up their gaudy Christmas lights from Argos to impress the neighbourhood and say, look at me😁 However you celebrate, have a good one!

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