Friday 18 November 2016

Friday Flippancy


You and I may think it is still November but the people who make money plan such things consider this the right time to start the Christmas shop!  Last night the nearby 'Outlet' shopping centre had some famous person I had never heard off switch on their Christmas lights (hooray).  Tomorrow the town lights will be switched on so the centre of town is being prepared for the event.  Several stall have appeared in the centre, I expect many more tomorrow, alongside children's funfair attractions and ten thousand people.  The museum will be open and we too have stalls and activities.  The stall shown has lots of Greek eatable's.  On the right hand side lie lots of those Mediterranean sweet cakes filled with figs, dates and other luxuries. I love them but last time he was here I spent vast amounts fattening myself up as I just ate them all one after another.  This I must avoid this year although now I mention it I begin to fantasise about them, help!!!



I will be there, eventually, attempting to dress as a Victorian!  My top hat is secured at the museum and the girls have a variety of Victorian clobber to wear.  All I have to do now is develop Ricketts and expire before I am five years of age.  With FREE entry (the manger must be having a fit) we ought to get hundreds through the door and mush of the goods on sale ought to go tomorrow.  The shop has been prepared with appropriate kids stocking fillers and much else, especially candles, candles appear to be what women wish for these days, smelly candles.  Possibly this has something to do with the smelly men they live with...?



The weather ought to be tolerable for the switch on but later the sun will arrive and spoil the fireworks which they insist on having each year.  With November the 5th just past the days leading up to and after it the area was like World War 3 at times, we need more of that tomorrow.  I will be abed by then however but the sound will crash all around.  I suspect a good time will be had by all but the Christmas Spirit is alive and well, Christmas shopping spirit that is, people walk into you rushing here and there ignoring others, bless them....



I have almost completed Christmas!  As always I missed out some people, four to be exact, just how many nieces can I have exactly?  Someone has added one or two when I was not looking.  So tomorrow before anything else I must finish that and then little has to be done.  I am convinced you are all in the same situation as I.  What?.....oh!



10 comments:

Lady Di Tn said...

Poor old November is obscured between Halloween and Christmas. The money mongers want to extent the seasons longer and longer so they can Sale, Sale, sale. At least this year here in the states, some stores are closing on Thanksgiving Day. But look out Black Friday. That day I plan to stay inside or close to home. I cannot think of anything I need to buy that bad to venture out. I have always thought we need to finish one Holiday before we start the next. Today once again we are marching toward 80 degrees but tomorrow we will only be half that. What a roller coaster. The swift change in temperatures does not give the body time to adjust to the change. Peace BTW I will take note of the stores that close and visit them instead of others later in the season.

the fly in the web said...

Humbug!
Luckily the vagaries of the postal system between Costa Rica and Europe has meant that presents are no longer exchanged and I'm down to 'e' cards in the main.
Christmas cards here do not seem to exist, luckily, so all I have to do is buy earplugs to avoid hearing 'Jingle Bells' in every shop I enter and to remember to be light on my feet to avoid being speared by the horns of fibreglass reindeer while trying to dodge the inflatable Santas which lurk in shop doorways and endeavoring not to step on the black plastic sheets of the men selling socks, rip off music CDs and objects of dubious provenance on the small part of the pavement not occupied by inflatable Santas and fibreglass reindeer.
Oh, and make a mental note to avoid the man selling last years' fibreglass reindeer rashly and all too evidently rescued from a tip when parking the car outside the local farmers' market on Saturdays while not falling into the clutches of the man selling hammocks made from recycled plastic which can lacerate the skin in a fashion to be envied by practitioners of death by a thousand cuts.

Lee said...

Christmas has started to make its appearance in stores here, too. I bought some fruit mince tarts a couple of days ago. I won't touch them until Christmas and I intend getting more. These are for a hamper I'm putting together.

I don't mind the goodies hitting the stores early...it allows me to buy a little at a time of what I want (not need...want). In saying that I'm planning to have a very low-key Christmas. Noting outlandish and over the top for me.

Adullamite said...

Lady, Black Friday means nothing to me I must say. Stay safe indoors!

Fly, Ho Ho HO! That looks like a new post in waiting! lovely!

Lee, It's started tonight! Tomorrow I will write it up when I have recovered.

carol in cairns said...

I never think about Christmas until after my birthday and the school year is over. That puts me into December, so have no problems then. I quite enjoy all the hustle and bustle of the shops in that last few days before Christmas as I only buy for one person .. ME (and forget about the man child) 😂

carol in cairns said...

P.S. Enjoy the Turkish sweets .. in moderation.

Kay G. said...

November is pretty leaves and at the end of the month, Thanksgiving!
(And my son's birthday.) November is a great month!

Jenny Woolf said...

I reckon we need something to cheer us up in November. However, they are a bit early, they should wait till every leaf is off the trees and we realise that we have months of greyness to look forward to. The museum sounds very enterprising, and I'm really going to visit next time I am in or more likely passing through Braintree. This doesn't happen very often, but it DOES sometimes happen! I shall look out for anyone wearing a top hat of course! :)

Jenny Woolf said...

I hope I pressed the button to send my comment. I went out to answer the door and when I came back it had gone...

Adullamite said...

Jenny, Strange month November. Just cold weather ahead, no wonder folks celebrated the solstice and that is where new year/Christmas/ midwinter booze ups come from. It leads to Spring, no wonder folks rejoiced.

Jenny, Indeed it went and it came!!