"When are the xmas lights going up?"

[Sweltered]

You might have a point Bubbly, but I heard earlier this week that they are planning to have the Christmas lights switched on during the Music Festival Saturday. This way there will be no need for Greensleeves or some other "celebrity" doing the brass monkey bit.

Your point about light pollution is a valid one. Away from all the street lighting etc it's great to see the sky on a clear night.

Before I get pelters about street lights I am not saying we don't need them.

Believe it or not, but there's no street lights on my street! Lots of the houses have lamposts in their garden.

[bubbly jock]

planning to have the Christmas lights switched on during the Music Festival Saturday. This way there will be no need for Greensleeves or some other "celebrity" doing the brass monkey bit.

Aye P.R. I suppose the rain is warm in August. Might even eliminate the need for tights.

Sweltered is the garden lamposts supply down to the householder?

bubbly

[Willie D]

I don't put up my lights 'til a week to 10 days before Christmas and - as is traditional - they are down by Twelfth Night.

Admittedly the Delivery Office display is up from the end of November - but that's requested by the Street Traders Association to tie in with the town's switch on.

Where do you draw the line though - it could be argued that everybody on this forum is wasting energy the whole year through!

[knock]

at the end of the day, the kids (and some adults!) love the lights on. We drove up longrow yesterday when they were putting up the lights. The kids were high as kites!!! It almost signifies the start of the christmas atmosphere in campbeltown.

Keep up the good work, traders association, willie D and the considerate householders who 'waste electricity' on such lovely displays. Those who complain, consider this: I live out in the countryside and the only people who see my lights are ourselves. It doesn't quite feel the same.

[bubbly jock]

at the end of the day, ............................

How sad


bubbly

[bubbly jock]

Keeping to the original thread, who is the switcher putting on the lights this year?.

I hope the switcher on from last year has not retyred. He made it such fun. His spirtle like pins were a treat to behold, a perfect fit for the emerald green Pretty Polly's.

A hard act to follow

bubbly

[Sweltered]

Sweltered is the garden lamposts supply down to the householder?

bubbly

Yes, the householder pays, and the electric is expensive here. We were as high as $200 for the month in july. The Xmas lights don't usually go up until after thanksgiving , which is next Thursday, so I'll have to get Nessie form the shed for his annual Xmas outing!

[bubbly jock]

We were as high as $200 for the month in july.

Hate to go off thread but if that is all your heating/air con/cooking/hot water. I think I will move to Florida.

When Nessie goes up does the utility bill follow?

bubbly

[Sweltered]

Well at least Cn can't sink any lower than Aberdeen for a light switcher on-er..unless of course the "juice" is asked to do it.

[Lord Lucan]

Keeping to the original thread, who is the switcher putting on the lights this year?.

It's me.

[bubbly jock]

JOHN you're alive, Christ they told me you were deed.

They're looking right enough for a switcher and I think you would do fine. You could always dress up as Batman, Robin might turn up again this year but I don't think he'll bother you unless he's a bit tight.

I think you're a bit old for the steps up tae the lights mind you. All those years of gambling and sitting at the poker will have taken its toll and you need good legs for the job.

The fee is £1000.00 and you could use it at the wee poker school that's been set up here in town.

If you're still as handsome as you were it would make a change from looking at thon ugly lot roon the table. They're aboot as pleasant as a bucket of sh1te but it's easy money.

Are you still intae nannies? If you feel like a wee practice there's a few aroon here that could do with a good strangling, well they're more like goats really but if I remember you weren't all that fussy about age, looks or nationality.

If you're lookin for me I'll be in the usual place.

bubbly

[Pete Reek]

By Christ Bubbly, I don't know why I never thought about this before.

My wife is spendin a fortune on that Nitromoors and all the time I could have got you to come to the house for a yarn and all the bloody paint would have been off the doors and facings by this time. You haven't lost that edge to your tongue at all.

I could have made sure you had a sip or two at a nice 12 year old Glenmorangie Malt to keep your thrapple lubricated.

If I decide to do the hall and one of the bedrooms next year, could I maybe send you a PM and have you come to visit?

I'm quite sure that the topic in the Batcave is about yourshelf and when I saw you on Sunday your ears were hellish hot looking. Keep the henhouse flap closed at all times for your own good.

Are you going away this year at the usual time or are you going to tough it out?

Anyway, I think I need to grab a wee bit of shuteye, so goodnight to you.

[Lord Lucan]

I think you're a bit old for the steps up tae the lights mind you. All those years of gambling and sitting at the poker will have taken its toll and you need good legs for the job.

That'll not be a problem as Shergar will be with me and I'll let his legs take the strain.

[petewick]

I think you're a bit old for the steps up tae the lights mind you. All those years of gambling and sitting at the poker will have taken its toll and you need good legs for the job.

That'll not be a problem as Shergar will be with me and I'll let his legs take the strain.

Mer' lakely' tae be Desert Orchid!


petewick

[judge roy bean]

just a thought, but are the lighting of the lights on the night of the illuminati just a wee way for the traders assoc. to pass the time when theres nobody coming into the shop to buy anything.

must make a change from looking oot the window at everyone passsing on their way to tesco and the co-op.

who are they gettingto switch on the lights anyhoos, a local celeb perhaps, somebody the town is chatting about at the water cooler? wonder who that could be, don't get out much, wot with dispensing justice and all so i'm not up on any local gossip about any local tradespersons or suchlike, hope to gawd they don't get some git to dress up in a stupid costume or i'll have to lie in wait on the roof of the local woolies with my winchester(maybe a windcheater too if it's as cold as last year!!) and shoot the blighters like i did with bad bob the albino.

is big jawn greenin up his face again as shrek (wot do you mean he was santa?, did he get robbie robb to record his ho ho ho's?) or will i have to fight spidie for roofspace?

the whole procession is so tacky i thot i was back home in texas, except for the biting wind and the cauld and the shops open late trying to sell the tat you wouldn't buy between 9am and 5pm. maybe they'll do a woolies type 3 for 2? big jawn as shrek, the 4th gen as the princess and since they'll be takin photos there will be no shortage of cooncillors, A&B and community, that can do a great donkey!!!! for free, jist for the weans, and wullie d.

jist had a chap from a call centre in foreign fields refuse to hang up on me cos i didn't want to hear his bad english trying to sell me a mobile phone, he even started making noises doon the phone at me!!! took me all my time not to revert to some basic anglo saxon rhetaric concerning his homeland and parental situation. maybe we can get him to switch on the lights? he'll have a lot of free time on his hands when i'm finished with him.

a wee burd told me that someone suggested getting citizen of the year to do the honours, but i think wan ruddy is enough for anyone, theres only so many times a sowel can be affronted, unless yo hae a byeline in i.m jolly speeches.

roll on thanksgiving, 7 oors oh american fitba, thon man utd were sh!te