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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 14:30 
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It's all a metaphor about a child turning away from the assistance and lightness offered by his family, and choosing instead to embrace his inner monster. He decides to switch off the light and welcome back the beast. It's sort of like a kiddy, Christmassy Fight Club. They'll be a follow up ad where the monster hands him a box of matches and a jerry can and they both smile as he heads off to school.


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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
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Shops are getting worse, its all decked out for Christmas before Halloween is over these days.

Just gets on my nerves until maybe the week before when you start to feel the Christmas spirit.

John Lewis Advert is always good, but I would never shop there, nearest one too far away :p


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Christmas decorations up in Bradford.
I've been doing Christmas since Feb. Thoroughly sick of it.

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The steel drum man was out playing jolly Christmas tunes today. It really made me feel a bit festive so I bought myself a mince pie from Boots and had some hot Ribena (it’s supposed to be made hot because it’s mulled wine flavour and says ‘make with hot water’ on the bottle!!) from my travel mug.

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Mimi wrote:
had some hot Ribena


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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
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Mimi wrote:
had some hot Ribena


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I was trying to avoid that!!

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This makes me so happy! This is what I would drink last year when I couldn't have wine. Also, it's bloody lovely! Where did you get it from Meems? I might have to get dressed and go shopping!!

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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
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My friend bought it for me, she said it’s really hard to get hold of as it keeps selling out everywhere so she went out hunting in branches of Asda until she eventually found two bottles in an Aldi.

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M&S alcohol free Christmas punch is bloody lovely.

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Mimi wrote:
My friend bought it for me, she said it’s really hard to get hold of as it keeps selling out everywhere so she went out hunting in branches of Asda until she eventually found two bottles in an Aldi.

Ooh, thanks. I'll check it out. :)

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M&S alcohol free Christmas punch is bloody lovely.

I'll look out for it next time I'm by an M&S. Cheers Cras. :)

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Slam some rum in the fucker and it's even better.

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Slam some rum in the fucker and it's even better.

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Shops are getting worse, its all decked out for Christmas before Halloween is over these days.

Just gets on my nerves until maybe the week before when you start to feel the Christmas spirit.

John Lewis Advert is always good, but I would never shop there, nearest one too far away :p


Imagine if they sold online....

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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
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I like the Sainsbury's ad. No twee sentimentality, just some christmassy stuff.


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I like the Sainsbury's ad. No twee sentimentality, just some christmassy stuff.

Does it feature any of the following :
Noddy Sodding Holder.


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DavPaz wrote:
I like the Sainsbury's ad. No twee sentimentality, just some christmassy stuff.

Does it feature any of the following :
Noddy Sodding Holder.

I didn't spot any Noddy.


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Ignore the thumbnail, Rickie is barely in it.

It includes the line "Big head ripping through paper hat". No wonder I like it!


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Stupid Post Office Instagram advert made me cry.

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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
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"Oh, I went to Haworth yesterday and got a doll's house for the girls"
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"That doesn't even work"
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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
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11.6 celcius at 1747 in center of Bradford today.
Was 2 Celsius yesterday on my drive according to Subararararahubarararu

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13.5C driving from the pub at 930pm today. It was 1C there a fortnight ago.


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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
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It was slippy and slide walking up the hill last night? Definite ice, and I think there's a small bit of snow in the garden and it looks like the moor has a covering.

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SNOW!!

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Ground frost here for the last 2 mornings. Then sunny but crisp day around 6c


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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
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Just had my first instancecof someone telling me that it’ll be ‘too cold for snow’ when they travel to Newcastle next week.

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Sorry, I meant ‘of this winter’ as someone says that pretty much every day through every winter.

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Too cold? In Newcastle? Poppycock! If you see a Geordie in a coat, the heat death of the universe is imminent.


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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
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Just had my first instancecof someone telling me that it’ll be ‘too cold for snow’ when they travel to Newcastle next week.


Suggest they take coal with them.


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It was bloody cold watching the little one play rugby..

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Christmas decorations up in Bradford.


No council decorations on yet around me.

There is a large house on my street that is a Montessori Nursery, thats got lights all over it. Schools start early though was at my sons Christmas Fayre yesterday.

Then in the next street over a couple of houses that go nuts with the decorations (the sort of thing that makes the local paper) have all theirs out.

Had another IP65 plug box put at the front of the house last week as my son wants to put lights up at the front of the house.


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 Post subject: Re: Winter watch '16-'17
PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 23:27 
We have a big tree in town, no lights though yet, and lots of snow.


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The BBC's Christmas promo animation is rather lovely

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Put my tree up at home yesterday :)

Didn't plan to, but had to bring out the decoration box from the attic so that I could put a load of unwanted toys in there behind them.

So my son spotted them and that was the end of waiting another week.

He was in the box again this morning telling me we needed to add more lights.

Still, so far he hasn't pulled it down or thrown any baubles against the wall so big improvement on last year


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Got all the decorations down from the loft over the weekend, and the house now looks lovely. However, whilst in the attic, I found that we have both mice and condensation. Booo!


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2ºC this morning.

This is my hand. I need to buy some gloves. I'm not much of a glove guy.


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Hours of snow tonight according to the local news. I won't mind if they're completely wrong.

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It's dark as midnight here and sleeting heavily.


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We have snow here... Enough to close my wife's school apparently.


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Sure is snowing here, yep.


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The view from the window on my stairs.


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Meanwhile in Pyongchang, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12 ... will-cold/
the wintergames will be too cold...

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The kids school is closed but they announced it quite late. Too late for one mom it seems as I saw her walking down the road to school with her pushchair and 3 kids.

I would have said something out the window but this is the same mom who has let her dog shit in the street so you know.. I left her.


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No snow for me (Berkshire) car has a little ice on it this morning.

Current forcast is heavy rain at the weekend, but that could be snow.

Hope we get a bit of snow as I don't think we have had any since my son was born.


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Hardly any in Saltaire, more up the hill in Bradford, less in Batley.

Expecting metric fucktonnes on Sunday.

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