It’s beginning to look at lot like ...

[alorotom]

I was at the library earlier in Wallsend, Newcastle tonusr their computers to print a document out (I don’t have a printers, how council blah blah blah) and as I was leaving one of the library staff was putting a ... Christmas tree up!

Now I know stores order Xmas stuff in January etc... however, it is a tad early being July 14th and getting your decorations up!

Stunned I was, the other councilistas present loved it though!

[bongtom]

Is she the one that has popped out of the box?

[alorotom]

Lol, hadn’t noticed that

[TooMany2cvs]

...and the red book just behind her. "Christmas Crafts".

I s'pose if you're going to be knitting pressies for the grandsprogs in Sydney, you need to get started about now...

[Berkshire bred]

Sorry to be grumpy but Christmas can fk off for at least another 4.5 months.

[abzmike]

Yep, at a local country show today one of the categories in the crafts tent was Xmas Decorations...just no.

[Megaflow]

alorotom said:

I was at the library earlier in Wallsend, Newcastle tonusr their computers to print a document out (I don’t have a printers, how council blah blah blah) and as I was leaving one of the library staff was putting a ... Christmas tree up!

Now I know stores order Xmas stuff in January etc... however, it is a tad early being July 14th and getting your decorations up!

Stunned I was, the other councilistas present loved it though!

Please tell me we have all missed a joke? Summer has on,y been here for 5 weeks!

[alorotom]

Megaflow said:

Please tell me we have all missed a joke? Summer has on,y been here for 5 weeks!

No, completely serious, I was literally stunned seeing her put the tree up then start decorating it!

[cuprabob]

It's around this time that the public sector start winding down for Christmas, so I'm not surprised they are putting a tree up

[Evolved]

Please tell me you went over and asked why? Then beat her with said tree

[Pericoloso]

Unbelievable !

Why not just leave it up 365 days ?.....

[Randy Winkman]

TooMany2cvs said:

...and the red book just behind her. "Christmas Crafts".

I s'pose if you're going to be knitting pressies for the grandsprogs in Sydney, you need to get started about now...

Exactly. That's the whole point of it all.

[ApOrbital]

Pericoloso said:

Unbelievable Jeff.

Why not just leave it up 365 days ?.....

Fixed that for you.

[Megaflow]

alorotom said:

Megaflow said:

Please tell me we have all missed a joke? Summer has on,y been here for 5 weeks!

No, completely serious, I was literally stunned seeing her put the tree up then start decorating it!

I don’t understand why people / businesses do this, wishing time away, it goes fast enough without help! I was in B&Q the other day and all the garden furniture is on sale! The is most of July and August to go, what are they going to replace it with. Fking Christmas decorations probably.

[gtidriver]

Megaflow said:

alorotom said:

Megaflow said:

Please tell me we have all missed a joke? Summer has on,y been here for 5 weeks!

No, completely serious, I was literally stunned seeing her put the tree up then start decorating it!

I don’t understand why people / businesses do this, wishing time away, it goes fast enough without help! I was in B&Q the other day and all the garden furniture is on sale! The is most of July and August to go, what are they going to replace it with. Fking Christmas decorations probably.

Nope it'll be halloween ste first..

[alorotom]

Megaflow said:

I don’t understand why people / businesses do this, wishing time away, it goes fast enough without help! I was in B&Q the other day and all the garden furniture is on sale! The is most of July and August to go, what are they going to replace it with. Fking Christmas decorations probably.

I noticed this too on Friday in B&Q and was surprised to see it in the first phase of reductions

[Scabutz]

Berkshire bred said:

Sorry to be grumpy but Christmas can fk off for at least another 4.5 months.

No need to apologise. I fking love Christmas, but it's July, in the middle of the most glorious period of weather I can remember. Christmas can fk off, for now

[kowalski655]

With the Xmas crafts book, maybe they are having a craft demo or lessons,in plenty of time for Xmas, and this is advertising. Hopefully it will get packed away soon.
If not OP, sneak in and burn it, they must be made to realise it's too bloody early

[Buffalo]

Christmas in July?
(Normally only celebrated in southern hemisphere mind)

[alorotom]

Buffalo said:

Christmas in July?
(Normally only celebrated in southern hemisphere mind)

And also a similarly named shopping event annually on QVC ... so I hear