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Have you seen a tree or Christmas decoration that looks like this? SEND US A PHOTO!
This tree in Peterlee has been quite a talking point in PM. Now it's been replaced. But listener Anya Spackman loves it.
"In today's straitened economic times, what the heck does the LOOK of a Christmas tree matter, especially when it's provided free? Whatever it looks like now, it'll still be firewood or wood chip mulch by the end of January. I'd much prefer a real *growing* tree any time, whatever it looks like."
She's right. And iPM is on the hunt for Britain's least loved Christmas decoration or tree.
If near you there is a spindly, badly decorated tree, or if the council has attached three coloured bulbs to a lampost and is calling it Christmas, please take a photo and send it to us: ipm@bbc.co.uk.
We've got to love ALL our decorations. Even the bad ones. It's Christmas.
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In Whitworth, which is near Rochdale, the local council would put up a small plastic illuminated snowman on the only public building in the town. For a few years on the trot, a rugby club from South Wales would organise a coach trip to go and see it.
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"or if the council has attached three coloured bulbs to a lampost and is calling it Christmas"
Sounds like Kenilworth...
The majority of decorations are just coloured bulbs wound around the lampposts, and apparently have been reused for years upon end. Inevitably there'll always be at least 3 'dark' columns whereby the streetlight at top works but the Christmas lights don't.
At least we've got the "Tree of light" in aid of Macmillan hiding in Talisman Square, and Severn Trent's tree [1] at the entrance to Warwick Road, to make it look a little more presentable.
[1] Yes, you heard me right. Severn Trent, who closed the main road through town for much of this year for sewer work, have contributed a tree and lights of their own...
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The scaffolding on our house went up in early October for four weeks. Then the job got complicated. The builders now say they will cheer us up about this by decking the scaffolding with little many-coloured lights.
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Ah yes, Fire-Play. I've heard of that. But I don't have a photo...
"US man mistakenly shoots wife during sex"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-man-mistakenly-shoots-wife-during-sex-1053524.html
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Chris, Those lights will be plugged into YOUR electricity supply and probably will be added to the bill.
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I've always wondered how much the electricity bill rockets over December for homes with Christmas lighting overkill outside...
...And for the homes across the pond featured on YouTube videos that have 50,000+ lights all synchronised to music...
-oOo-
Meanwhile, I've just read this in the Comment section of the local rag:
"On the up side, the Christmas trees in town all look fabulous and maybe the retro decorations are what make Kenilworth that little more special than the other towns."
So there you go. If your town's decorations are below par (probably because they're not paid for by the council but entirely by a committee going around local businesses cap-in-hand), don't describe them as "dismal". Apply a bit of spin, and describe them as "retro".
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Remind me to take a photo of the giant deflated santa at our local garden centre ....
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Talking of photo's - does anyone remember why today is a photographic 2nd anniversary at 5pm for PM.
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jonnie (8) Yes - and it's my anniversary too, as that's what drew me here in the first place ;o)
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Jonnie (8): How about we deluge Eddie with updated photos of what we're up to at 5pm? :)
After all, he does tend to get withdrawal symptoms if there aren't any photos in his inbox...
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Unemployment in the USA up by half a million this month, and the world is crying out for socialism.
But never mind. Life is a joke, I'm sure.
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Gosh - you're right! Two years. I still sometimes look at those Windows on the World. Great photos.
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Okay then - Camera ready - I'll start running the bath ;-)
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No Glass Box before the programme starts to hear what listeners think should go in.
Another inter - active triumph!
For why, maybe, we are still languishing without a proper publically owned finance sector (and then some), something that should be discussed on PM ,(and I'd say iPM, too, were it not such a joke), you could check my post to FB
Catch you later.
The unemployment figures from the US you can greet with 'Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?' and call the item Good Job - No Job.
After all, there was full employment here only fifty years ago, and huge unemployment, 80 and 30 years ago. Y'see, it goes UP and it goes DOWN.
Should we worry?
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pmL 15, The Glass Box is for commenting on what we think about the program. It would be a bit difficult to say what I thought of it before I heard it.
Dimes? Fasces to you.
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Bet a dime my 16 gets deleted.
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DMcN @ 14, what were you driving at the top of your tree when you ran over the cat that was up there? And why was it dressed as an angel at the time you ran it over? Enquiring minds want to know.
(Enquiring minds feel that it is worse to write asequential strangeness like your 14 than it is to write long sentences...)
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evening all...
hmmmmm... made me think of this.....
such a sad tale
(hope the link works...)
(hope everyone here is ok - been a while....)
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Whisht, how lovely to see you here again. Please don't make it so long before you revisit us :o)
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Whisht - how nice to see you again! - I was only thinking about you the other day when I was taken back to an old blog link.
My bath comment earlier by the way, was in response to Mittfh and taking woyw photo's.
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Hi Big Sister, Jonnie,
yes been away from the blog, working and stuff... the usual. How have you all been? Hopefully everyon'e ok.
I really should come back more often. Its been ages - is there anywhere I can catch up?
I mean - I only just discovered Eddie's adoration of Shatner!
I thought it might mean this but no, more this*
*Please don't watch if you like music, or have impressionable children
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omg - on finding those two Shatner links I found this.
I honestly have no idea how to describe it. its either amusing or just deranged.
But maybe, just maybe, it'll raise a smile. At least I hope so in these rather news-gloomy times....
right, I'm orf to help the nation and spend like there's no tomorrow buying xmas presents.
That's the responsible thing to do, right?
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C_G 18, As my post has been 'referred', I can't comment.
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C_G 18, And, now, removed. I can only say to the person who referred it (you know who you are), I suggest you visit Yuma, Arizona to get a sense of Yuma.
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DMcN, it wasn't me, honest. In fact I sincerely *resent* these people butting in on our private row like that! Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
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Whisht, hello and greetings to you - I was only thinking about you the other day too. What a small wurrld!
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C_G 26, We all know who it was. A bit catty, I thought.
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