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the next Christmas with Alison Cork TSV is on the 25/07/18
Is this the dreaded (for me certainly!) Christmas in July?
it is Christmas in july which gets more popular every year
Even if Q sold anything suitable for family Christmas gifts ( which they don`t ) then on principle I wouldn`t buy in July. Christmas is commercialized enough without overpriced tat being wheeled out when many people haven`t even had their Summer holiday. They will bang on about Christmas for months and try to whip up a feeding frenzy of buying. Well it won`t work on me !
Ah Julius, if only they DID have some Thomas Pacconi but they don't seem to sell such gems any more, nor the wonderful Mr Christmas musical boxes they used to do. Now it's endless projected lights onto the front of your house or other mindless tat. Bring back Billy the singing bass or whatever he was and the movement activated singing Christmas tree he he he he he.
CC (only a semi-gullible idiot)
Ah Julius, if only they DID have some Thomas Pacconi but they don't seem to sell such gems any more, nor the wonderful Mr Christmas musical boxes they used to do. Now it's endless projected lights onto the front of your house or other mindless tat. Bring back Billy the singing bass or whatever he was and the movement activated singing Christmas tree he he he he he.
CC (only a semi-gullible idiot)
Yes, some of the xmas deccys were pretty decent decades ago. Thomas Bacconi didn't only sell ornaments for Christmas, as I have a lovely big storage box with hinged lid and tray insert that I bought at least 14 years ago, and still looks great. No doubt Gill Gaunt will be on overtime flogging her battery lights that she's 'got at home', and Alison Cork will currently be in China ordering thousands of glittery antler horns !
I read an article once which said when the Royals gather for Christmas they only buy cheap and cheerful Christmas gifts for each other and the Queen, the funnier the better. It said one of the Queen`s favorite gifts was a Big Mouth Billy Bass which was given to her several years ago by Princess Anne. No idea if it`s true or not but if it is then at least Queenie found the singing fish funny !
i do christmas shopping all year round it makes it so much easier & better