The Gallery: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
I do love this time of the year.
I love the fact that it’s frosty and our weather station’s temperature display often reads minus something. I even love the short days and the long dark nights drawing in.
I’m from the Southern Hemisphere so you might think that I’d find a winter Christmas feels wrong, but to be honest the only thing I found strange about it was how familiar it felt to be celebrating when it’s dark and cold outside.
It just feels natural. I’ve been back to NZ for the odd ‘warm Christmas’ since I moved to the UK , and that now feels wrong!
Although I tutt when the shops start putting up their decorations in November, come December I love to see the tinsel in the windows and the Christmas stock out, and I always look forward to our local Christmas fair when the High Street lights are switched on for the first time.
I love it when it’s time to bring the advent calender and the Elf on the Shelf out, and I enjoy putting up the tree and the lights as much as the kids do.
And as stressful as it is at the time, I love putting together the annual cheesy Christmas card.
All of these things mean Christmas to me, but the one thing that always announces that Christmas is really here, to me is this:
This is the local ‘Crazy House’ that always goes overboard at Halloween and Christmas. This photo doesn’t do justice to the wattage that rolls off this display. You can see the glow emanating from it at the other end of the street.
Luckily for us, this house is the next street over. However it is semi detached and the house next door was up for sale this year. I did catch myself wondering if the vendors had declared their neighbour’s love of tacky Christmas illuminations to the buyers…
If you fancy more festive photos, then pop on over and check out this week’s Gallery over at Sticky Fingers.
Hey! That looks a lot like my house lol
You’d definately want to sell your house in the summer if that one was next door wouldn’t you?
I love looking at those sort of displays but would definitely not want to live next door!
Ha ha, I wonder if they actually sold? If they’re trying to now, they’ve got no chance!! I love christmas too
We have a house worse than that a couple of towns over *BUT* their whole street has joined in now and they do it to raise money for local charities
Oh wow. Their electricity bill must be a fright in January!
Crazy is the right word. There seem to more and more crazy people who have more money than sense!
Wow! Love it. I took the kids the long way home tonight to look at the one street which has loads of decorations on.
Oh you’re so right; the tacky lights are the biggest indicator to me that it’s coming along!
Popping over from The Gallery
I’ve always thought how bizarre it must be to spend Christmas in hot sunny weather, I don’t reckon I’d like it! Love the photo, reminds me of a road by me that goes completely MENTAL with the fairy lights! People complain, but I love it
I am actually rather disappointed that we don’t seem to have a tacky decorations house near us. Yours looks very *ahem* special though!
Yes, we live near houses like this -the one that goes the most overboard put the decorations up on 11th of November! (see this post: http://www.conqueringcrafts.com/2012/11/why-i-think-christmas-in-november-is.html )