Taken the Xmas tree down, but the outside lights are staying on for the time being. Lockdown needs brightening up. Apparently it used to be a thing to keep decs up until Candlemas (no me neither, 2nd Feb). So it’s a thing. Who’s with me?
I love putting the Xmas decorations in the loft. Why? Spoiler: Not for schoolchilden Back in ye olden days for 4th form Eng. Lit. Xmas holiday homework I was set a task of a structured review (place, plot, characters, scene locations, themes. memorable lines etc.) of Act I of Twelfth Night. This I HAD NO INTENTION OF DOING (it was the first white Xmas for years). Come English lesson on the Tuesday back, when asked where my project was I told my teacher that it had been mistakenly put up in the loft with the Xmas decorations. I then had a week (which I stretched out to a fortnight) in which "...my dad's borrowing a ladder from work..." that gave me time to produce a wad of paper-mache that was my ruined homework as "...the roof had leaked during the thaw..."
I took them down two hours before your post. tbf I might well keep outside lights on all year if I had some.
The fact that work gets handed in online these days, the old excuses such as "the dog ate my homework" have long gone.
Well, there should be some going cheap now. Your choice m8. Endure the lockdown and the ‘Beast from the East’ in your dimly lit hobbit hole or live in a magical grotto (one strip of outdoor lights) like me and Mrs Moose.
I'll keep the fairy lights up around the fireplace. I'll drape them around my "Cockney Classic" trophy,Socrates and David,oh and the the cat ornaments too.
I've disconnected power to the timers and stuff so the lights are still up on the house but aren't coming on. I'm on the fence on this one, I might wait and see if it picks up then jump on board claiming I was always going to do it.
Taken down the decorations but my outdoor lights are still up. As you say, life needs brightening up at the moment.
Took the decorations down inside MeisterManor as soon as I realised there would be no visitors this year. Tree was up until boxing day but I don't think I ever switched it's lights on. I don't do outside decorations because I'm a miserable middle aged sod.
Put the normal decs up but didn’t even bother putting up the outside ones this year as had been really busy and then it didn’t seem worth it. I regretted every day they weren’t up but felt smug on Monday when I didn’t have to get them down with the rest of the tat.
Took the lights down today but have left the 10ft inflatable 3 wise men and santa in a manger scene up for lockdown
On the 29 March 2020 I put up some white lights on the outside of the house, declaring to the household that they would stay until the pandemic lockdown was over. A mark of hope and defiance against an unseen foe. Expecting them to be down by September. I replaced the white lights with coloured lights for Christmas. They came down on Sunday. Now I have told the household that the white lights will go up again when deaths are down to 100 a week. This I expect to happen at some point before Candlemas 2022. This time as a mark of victory and celebration.
I experimented with 'my computer crashed' as early as 1995. Needless to say, it was not believed and I got in lots if trouble.
Over the years I've simplified and co-ordinated the lights and colours. You don't need to go overboard to get a good display. This year my daughter heard some kids outside discussing our lights. "Eight out of ten" they said apparently. The little ****s!
It’s a lockdown not a nuclear war. You can look out of the window and even go for a walk. Wouldn’t you rather walk in a magical fairyland?
Less is more. It takes years to appreciate that wisdom. Though one big house near us has a single straggly looking reindeer outside. So less can also be less.