can anyone see the smileys in my posts coz I can't?

 

Spent to many hours watching QVC Christmas things yesterday.....managed to control myself and just got some new lights....

I can't see them Cagney, post some more And hurrrrraaaaaah gets the decs out and buy more...! Syd, did they have any trains for the bottom of the tree?

No Summer....I really regret not buying one that went round the bottom of the tree and up the tree when my Grandson was 4 

when I try to post them it says "are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?" and "are you sure you want to leave this posting form?"

 

Do I have to pay for this too? <----I'd post a smiley face but it won't let me

Try again tomorrow Cagney, it might let you by then. Smileys should still be free Syd some are simply stunning aren't they! I want a good one but fear it's going to be expensive

I ordered my special cards today. So I have sufficient cards, postage stamps, and calendars.

well done joe! I sent my first card yesterday, just the one- to a friend who's as Christmas crazy as me, she'll laugh when she sees it

If the smiley problem is continuing try clearing your browser cache to see if that helps.

Look what I bought...

I love the bauble, it looks great!

Thanks yogi it's very good quality too

It looks it, Summer.

I've got one present

That's one more than me. I have bought my cards and an advent calendar for my baby 23 year old son.

I've got to get my nearly 40 year old his Beano Annual The pressie I got is a microscope for my youngest grandson . It was on one of the myriad of lists he's been compiling from the Argos catalogue!

Oh he's gotta have an advent calendar! I like the cadburys ones

I still insist on getting The Broons annual. One year, nobody bought it for me - I was in a right strop and had to buy it for myself!

 

Oh that Argos catalogue has a lot to answer for!

It's a Cadbury's one I bought.

Our local cinema is showing "It's a wonderful life" on the Sunday night before Xmas

 

Oh! I wish ours would do that!

 

I've never seen it, would love to, but I don't really like watching films at home. 

 

This has reminded me that it was kind of a tradition that I would take my son to the cinema on Christmas eve. We did it for years when he was growing up......we baked mince pies in the morning, cinema in the afternoon. We haven't done it since he was old enough to cope with the excitement of the day without a major distraction programme. I might bring it back this year though....just cos.  

 

I started my Christmas shopping yesterday. I also got my advent calendar. I don't like the chocolate ones, because they never look Christmassy enough for my liking. So I have an old fashioned picture one....covered in glitter. 

Ducky you gotta see its a wonderful life! I saw it for the first time 2 years ago and I absolutely love it Where did you get your advent calender?!

Muf- are you going to the showing of its a wonderful life?!

We bought advent calenders today

 

I got it from Clinton Cards. 

 

I was hard core Christmas shopping yesterday! I dropped my sister at Heathrow airport at 5am.....drove part of the way home....stopped off at Peterborough...had a snooze in the car, grabbed a breakfast, then went shopping as soon as the shops opened.  I was determined not to waste the 9th Saturday before Christmas!  

I totally agree - I always get the old-fashioned ones for that very reason!

ROFL "determined not to waste the 9th Saturday before Xmas"

I don't usually wrap pressies too early as i have a tendency to forget what i have bought, but as i have bought all the pressies for the grandchildren i might just wrap a few tomorrow

I will depending on Mrs Mufs shifts

The first time we watched it was one of them rare times you get with a house full of kids when It's a Sunday afternoon, the house is quiet and you have the telly to yourselves. The film is good but the watching it was great

I saw it for the first time last year ... cried through the whole of the last hour 

THE 'BAKERS DOZEN' TOP 13  CHRISTMAS TOYS for 2012

 

Awwwwwwwwww - are Cabbage Catch Kids making a come back? (Did they ever go away?) I remember queuing for one for my daughter (then aged 2) the first year they came out - he was bald with a dummy in a little sailor suit - his name was Ferdinand Jethro.

 

I've been making paper mache bowls with my boys. The outers are now painted green and red - gonna do the insides tomorrow - I've got gold paint to decorate and some Christmas stickers before we varnish. EXCITED 

Uploads some pics Sooz!

I wanted a cabbage patch kid but didn't get one

 

I am amazed at how far forward I am this year without really thinking Christmas too much 

 

have had a few good  sales in my little Town and managed to pick up a few nice pressies along the way - cards and paper etc bought  and yesterday in Tesco stumbled across a lot of their party food on a silly price offer till Monday so freezer got well stocked up to avoid the Dec rush 

I always wanted Chatty Cathy but didn't get one 

Still waiting for my Christmas cards to arrive. Otherwise we'll be having a day out in Newcastle in a couple of weeks and if we see anything we like the look of.......... Mrs Jer and I piss in the same pot, so we tend to commit acts of kindness on each other rather than presents. Thus she will accompany me to see Dweezil, and I will go with her in an uncomplaining manner to see Norman Waterson and that Carthy lass. My mother is Christmas obsessed, so we have to go through all the lunch biz, and Mrs Jer and I open presents that we bought ourselves rather than each other. I hate Christmas, me.

Joe, I think you rather enjoy humbugging